Long Week

So it's been a long and strange (not to mention frustrating) week. On Monday morning I woke to discover we had no hot water or heat (which runs on hot water). OK I do the obvious and phone the tnew landlord (quick note...our building just sold again for the second time in less than 6 months....we got a notice as to who to make rent cheques out to....that part of the story coming up). The new landlord (known only as Shawn) says he'll have it fixed that day. Ok, fast forward to Wednesday night. By this time we've had no heat or hot water since Monday (well, alright we did have like an hour each day of each). Meio and I have had to sort of wing it and have like sponge baths (we never knew when the hot water was on, so we kept missing opportunities to shower (I did however go to my awesome SIL's to shower and bathe Rosie that day). By now we've called Shawn like 8 times so Meio calls the Calgary health region, Alberta tenancy board and Global news. Then he decides to go to the address of the new company that owns the building (Champion homes) to see if he can find another phone number to call as we only had this Shawn's cell number and by now he's turned his cell off. Turns out the address is a PO Box at a UPS store. What the hell? This gets better. Meio is doing our laundry that night and he's down stairs in the laundry room at 11:00 pm when he smells gas. He goes to the utility room and finds someone fiddling with the boilers. Seems Shawn has shown one of the tenants (who is not trained to do such stuff) to take apart the faulty gas regulators on the boilers and get the gas going again. Uh...does this not seem like a VERY bad idea. The guy coulda burned the damn building down. Meio rushes upstairs and calls the gas company's emergency line. Next morning...still no heat or hot water. Meio stays home from work, phones the Calgary health board again and about an hour later Atco (the gas company) is here to replace the faulty regulators. So that's my weird story. I think we're going to move.