It's like an oven, only with a little more mercy.

Right now, I’m wishing I can drink that can of coke in the fridge, in my father’s currently unused porcelain glass filled to the brim with ice.

But right now, there’s no ice. And even if I’m tempted to drink it off the can, I wouldn’t, because the can is as warm as though someone had sat on it for a good 2 hours.

That’s because, right now, in the hottest of hottest nights, the new fridge came, and with it being just plugged in 5 minutes ago, I’d bet my toenails that the can of coke is only drinkable by midnight tonight. By then, I think I’ve already melted into goo.

Hot.

Hot.

I was starting to think if my father had a windfall one of these days; new fridge aside (of which, he claimed, had to be bought, as the old fridge was losing its ability to keep itself shut), he went and got a magma lamp (which, I think, is more like an artificial aquarium; it’s a tube that’s a little phalanx-like and it has bubbles and plastic fish in it. Symbolic) and a new all-in-one printer.

The printer was a given, however. We found out the old IP 3000 wouldn’t print anything anymore, and he flew into impulse-buy mode and we picked this one off an offer in All-IT Kajang.

The printer comes with a scanner, which is a Yay.

He almost bought me a speaker set for the PC. I refused. He got rather agitated about it (I had refused him flat-out in front of the sales-clerks and he couldn’t have been happy with it), but I didn’t tell him I was aiming for something a little higher than what we saw. Nope. It’s something I’ll be getting myself, for myself.

What with the new things around the house, his mood is considerably cheery now. Great welcome, especially in such hot nights, where temper from any side might just escalate into a full-fledge bush fire.

Man it’s hot.

Now, to help mom with acquainting the new fridge with the magnets.

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EDIT: Some bargain bin luck these days;

1) A Study in Scarlet by A. Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes’ First Case, for the uninformed) for 12 buckaroos.
2) Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith OST by John Williams for RM9.90, about 40 bucks off.

3) A lonely DVD copy of Misery, directed by Rob Reiner, for 7.90, found in some unknown video store at Giant Kajang.

Man, being a cheapskate pays off sometimes.