Hot here, there, everywhere, busted AC and myriad failures

Hot here, there, everywhere – need I say more. But I will. We live in an urban apt with no natural ventilation because the windows are all nailed shut or sealed shut with paint. Our couple of window air units aren’t the best in the world, the one in the bedroom cooled about 14 inches away from its face and the other one cools half the living room. Or the bedroom unit (which sends cool in here) used to cool about a foot from its face, and then we had a brief black out that busted the thing on Saturday. We have power outages here, short ones, on a daily basis, enough to reset the answering machine and make the clocks go blink-blink. But with this one the AC decided to quit working. We used a fan to push some of the cooler air from the living room into the work/dining room where I do the computer work. The fan stopped working so Marty started working with it.

Marty said, “The only good thing about my handyman work is I know to stop before I totally destroy something.”

He cut on the fan and it was reduced to sounding like a load of metal washers in a blender.

After a weekend of my webhost going periodically down and finally going down for a day, I sat to work on one of the websites I do as a volunteer. I’ve been keeping their files on a zip disk. Crackle bang bang crunch goes the zip drive and that’s all there was to that. We were melting in here and I figure the heat did it in.

We’re drinking chilled green tea by the gallon. Sweetened. I never drink sweetened tea. I’d finish up one and go fill it again.

But today the landlord replaced the bedroom AC with a new unit and though it’s still kind of warm in here (we don’t take the temp down to 68) we are feeling much less grotesque and I even managed to muster a smile this evening.

I was loading some photos up to Flickr today before it had a massive failure. These are old photos I was just loading up for family and I came across some of me enjoying popsicles with the sibs in the Seattle summer back lawn. I cut and pasted the me of then into the header image here.