Monday night was the first night in 10 days in which I could sleep in my own bed and boy was I excited. There were fresh sheets and I had just made the bed. It was almost orgasmic to slide into the cool sheets after a long week+ of travel. I was so damn happy to finally be home after living out of a suitcase for so long.
So I begin to doze off when I realized how DRY it was in my apartment. I knew immediately it was going to be a problem for me. As I lay in bed, my throat already painfully dried, I whimpered as I tried to sleep. I knew that the one thing I was lusting after the most, my own bed, was going to be night of shitty sleep and sore throat.
Well to no surprise I woke up about ever 30 minutes, my throat as dry as the desert during a drought (lame analogy but cleaner than the other one that popped into my head). I slept for shit. At one point, about 7am, I actually got up and turned on the shower on HOT for about 20 minutes to try to get some moisture in the air. At this point it was no use. It was evident what I needed to do… purchase a humidifier.
After suffering all day I drove to the local buy-it-all mart and purchased the most modestly priced humidifier. I didn’t need anything big, just something to bring relief to my throat during rest. I ended up with some Holmes brand unit that cost me 40 bucks. Thats right, $40 big ones.
So I read all the directions and fill the tank with water. I went in my bedroom a few hours after I set it up to see how things were progressing on the humidity front and low and behold that piece of shit was spottily made. The tank had already developed an internal crack, and the seal around the bottom where the clear plastic meets the cream plastic was allowing air in. With the unit turned off, the fucking tank leaks.
Now I don’t like to swear much on the blog, but this just frosts me. I just spent $40 for one of the crappiest built products I have ever purchased. Now if it only cost me $10, I wouldn’t be that surprised, but for $40 you can bet your ass I am returning this piece of shit tomorrow. Only after it attempts to sooth my throat so I can have a nice nights rest. Lets just hope for some poor customer service rep’s sake I can sleep tonight. Because there is nothing worse that some guy who hasn’t slept for two days with a sore throat calling to bitch about some crap imported from China.
you can see where the system is sucking air through the leak by the bubbles around the seal. You turn the system off and the suction stops…. which means this fucking thing starts leaking everywhere.
September 27, 2006 at 10:36
Damn. Sorry your first night back in your bagaki-bed was so rough.If it isn’t the humidifier its the filter. I just got out ours and the filter is completely dried up. Filters are then like $10-15 for something that doesn’t really filter. Really what you should do is just get a pan of water and put a towel half in it and half out. Then lay the towel so the water won’t just keep running through it and blow a fan over it. Thats a cheep DIY humidifier. (Props to my uncle mike)
September 27, 2006 at 11:31
UPDATE:
last night sucked too. I should drink myself to sleep but the idea of any more drinking makes me uncomfortable.
thanks for the DIY ideas kigis. Normally in the winter I will put a pan of water on the hot radiators in my apartment and that always works nicely. The problem is that the powers that be have not turned on the boiler yet for the season. I’m packing this sucker up and booting it back to China.