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November 10, 2007
Remote wars
My apartment complex is OK, but they suffer from an inability to keep the equipment that they have in good working order, or open. The whirl pool is a good example, it has probably been working and open for about 3 days since I moved in.
The other issue (and the topic of this post) is the good working order or existence of remote controls. This is especially troubling for me down in the workout room. Not that I really want to change channels very often, but the volume really does need to be adjusted depending on how many machines are being used. So for a while the remote was available but had dead batteries. To solve this problem I bought batteries. (they did actually replace them before I got a chance to put them in) The batteries come in handy though for the common room TV, whose remote batteries are also dead. So every time I go down there I bring my own batteries to use while I watch the TV. If they were polite enough to leave the room open at night, I would ante up the batteries on a permanent basis. But since I have to break in to use it, I'm keeping my batteries.
So back to the workout room remote. It disappeared a while a go has now been gone for about a month. I have no idea where it has gone. So I have decided to buy my own remote. 5 bucks at big lots and I'm set.
Now back to fighting for the whirl-pool.
Posted by kfeigh at November 10, 2007 03:06 PM