The Eternal Battle

I think I won the battle. I really think I was victorious. Of course, you know what battle I am talking about. It is the eternal struggle between good and evil. We all participate in this battle at one time or another. Sometimes, even good people are sufficiently deceived to fight on the wrong side. Clearly, I'm talking about the battle of the thermostat.

You see, there are certain people in this world who really prefer not to be comfortable. At least that's the only way I can explain it. They prefer their environment to be ridiculously hot. When they sing the song about "my favorite things" they sing about purgatory, lakes of fire and brimstone, molten lava and immolation.

This guy hates to be comfortable.

My coworker is one of these people. He would prefer that we light his skin on fire. During the winter I don't have any problem. I shut the vent in my office and allow him to turn it as hot as he likes. If it still gets to the point where my office furniture starts melting or spontaneously combusting, I just open a window.

In the summer, it's a little more difficult. I try to not cause conflict, but I also try to not die. I've been slowly inching the thermostat downward. Every few days I've dropped it about 1 degree. It was still ridiculously hot and then something glorious happened.

I was sitting at my desk when I heard a loud beeping sound. You see, I sit next to the server room. That room holds all of our various servers that host websites and other code. If that room gets hotter than 90 degrees an alarm goes off so that it doesn't melt down. The server room has its own AC but that went out which allowed the room to start to overheat.

While we were fixing the problem, one of my other coworkers cranked the main AC down about 12 degrees. It was a truly magical moment. Now all I need to do is get an alarm installed in my office so that everyone can be notified before I melt down.