(egg-nish-na)

That's Aussie for air conditioner. So the owner of our flat said no to our request to install some A/C in the place, even when we offered to buy the thing for her. After much research and shopping around, we finally bought a portable Delonghi PAC60 that we can take with us when we decide to move.

We call him R2D2. We've been running it on fan only mode, which sucks air through a 3M filter without turning on the condensers (there are 2), and it helps my hayfever. Before the weather gets really hot, we just gotta figure out how to seal off the hose in our crank style windows so the heat R2 sends out doesn't come back in. That will be our project for the weekend.