tales from the wayside

I started for telling short stories - then about the home remodel (not happening) - now ... just random outtakes and foolish assumptions.

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Monday, July 10, 2006

It only gets worse.

Note that any resemblance between my air conditioner and any reader of this BLOG is coincidental and unfortunate. On the other hand, they are apparently both retired and therefore no longer working….

The A/C still isn’t working. It was 110 yesterday, inside and out.

So, fine – to @!#$ with this! We got a portable A/C at Sam’s club. It goes into any room, it vents through the window, but as we in AZ don’t have windows that slide up and down, but rather side-to-side, window A/Cs are rather difficult to use unless you don’t mind a big piece of particle board for a view.

This one sets up for side-to-side. It’s 8000BTUs, if that means anything to you, it blows VERY cold air, and it blows the circuit breaker of any room in which it is run.

We tried it in the living room – it blew the breaker every three minutes. We put it in the bedroom. It ran great for half an hour. OK! Well, that’s where we need it the most, really, so OK, we’ll deal with it. I went into to slice an apple to have with lunch and took a deep slice into the side of my thumb. Running to the bathroom, I washed the thumb off with running water, did the hydrogen peroxide, called my wife to help me with the gauze pad, and as she opened the pad and handed it to me, the breaker for the bedroom/bathroom blew.

I hate my house.

I’ve put an embarrassing amount of money into the A/C to try and get it going; I have taken a total of three days off work so I could be there as the man plays eny-meeny-miny-mo with the guts of the system, and the same problem I had before only gets worse and worse.

I hate my house.

Tonight we’re staying in a motel, probably tomorrow night too. I am getting used to not having any sleep, and showering in a house that hot and humid is an exercise in futility.

I hate my house.

2 Comments:

Blogger Anvilcloud said...

I'd find it hard enough to live here without (ahem) A/C, so I don't doubt that down there you must be just about beside yourself with despair by now.

2:45 PM  
Blogger karla said...

So do tell us....do you hate your house? ;-)

I'm so sorry about the A/C situation. I'm with AC on being a suck when it comes to keeping cool, and I don't have anything close to your heat to contend with.

Would filing the bathub with ice and crashing there be an option?

7:58 PM  

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