11:25 Slept nearly 6 hours, till eleven, by the noises upstairs. After i got mad enough to get out of bed and start recording, the pattern of walks changed and concentrated around the door. When i was ready to upload a recording file, she took off.

The current occupants of the upstairs apartment are doing the same things as previous. Never talking on the phone, just walking for long times back and forth, sometimes hours. I took a glimpse through the window and saw a woman in her 20s, blonde, very short hair getting in their green Honda Element with FUS LPN. Every time i look i see a different one. So like their predecessors, take turns at tormenting us.

2:25 Got 4 lighters and lost them all in the enormous clutter inside the apartment (due to size). I think my subconscious rebels and is trying to prevent me from smoking...

5:22 A "family" of Spanish speaking people came in front of our patio, doing hearts and pictures with our door in the background.

I know why they took pictures of my AC, possibly catching me in the door. And why they were laughing. The way i installed the AC.

It took me years to perfect the system. Warm air is coming from inside and cold air is blown back inside. I used a piece of foam to seal the space between glass door and the plastic foil and a piece of corrugated plastic taped to a chair to separate hot and cold air and direct the cold air upwards. There are small but negligible leaks. It is all done with a thick transparent plastic sheet taped on the frame of the screen (upper), tape and pieces of foam and is all revertible (no one could tell it was there if i remove it).

And yes the air is going back and forth through the screen.

The reasons i have to put it on the concrete slab are obvious. There is less noise, being completely outside.

It would not vibrate the walls and bring insulation dust and other goodies inside through cracks.

Another reason is living does not have a suitable window and there is no point to cool the bedroom where i go only at night and would bother me anyways. Bedroom is towards the building with only one outer wall with the window and cool air from the living cools it down.

The 120 dollars 5000 BTU unit (about 450 Watts) is too small to cool the whole apartment. However, if i start it early in the day will maintain the starting temperature all day even if outside is 90+.

Only problem with it is the speed of cold air blown by the fan that is high compared to units with separate hot and cold and air parts (and freon pipes passed through the wall) and a bit of noise, about 2-3 times that of a fridge.

I always had problems at jobs for doing things "my way" which i think were innovative. I always did that, even in Romania where i made first real time apps for accounting and salaries for firms with thousands of employees..