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July 27, 2016

Dubai Life: The constant battle for AC and water

A few months ago, we bought Sven a used Volvo S80 from a neighbor (remember?).  So far we've been pretty satisfied and it's done a great job ferrying Sven on his long commute.  But the AC has been finicky and this week it stopped cooling entirely (which basically means death during a Dubai summer).  We just got an estimate for fixing all the broken parts and the quote was equal to 40% of the car's total purchase price.

Aaaaand to make everything more *awesome* the water in our villa stopped working yesterday.  Again.  For the 3rd time in less than 5 months.  We applied all the tricks we learned (and the gardener checked too) but this time it seems like a motor malfunction instead of "we're new and dumb."
This is exactly what it looks like
Which is whatever.  Mostly, it ruins my plans to do this.  
And flushing. It ruins flushing.
Naturally, I decided to deal with it by avoiding it for a whole day.  Steven and I went to the gym, took showers, ate a healthy lunch, and then came home to this.

And now on day #2 I am waiting for the maintenance team to come look at the water pump.  I expected them 2-3 hours ago, which is pretty normal here.

But in other tidbits of Dubai life - I have these fantastic new Palazzo pants that I loooooove.  They are so comfortable it feels like a trick; I can't believe they're acceptable in public.

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