WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

Ok...last night I finally found a web-host with permanent storage etc., and was paying for it online....when I could not find my credit card.


Searched feverishly...recalled last using it in a busy shopping mall....freaked.

Called the cancel your card line.......went back to turn off the computer....and there is the goddam card lying peacefully on my computer desk where I had left it when I took it out of my wallet in preparation earlier in the evening.

The cancellation is irrevocable.

Ouch...!!!

oooooooohhhhhhhh -- that sucks.

Not feeling well, but am still about to go out and meet up with friends. Makeup is applied, so there is no turning back.

Will this little kitty make it through the evening without throwing up a fur ball? Only time will tell......

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Woke up to find a flat tire on the car. This would be a week after we replaced both the front and rear passenger side tires after hitting a particularly vicious pothole. At least it wasn't one of the new ones! (Silver lining I guess! )

OK, so it's been hot. Brutally hot.

Our air conditioner was making weird noises that bothered E.G., and he turned it off pending having it looked at.

A guy came and looked at it, and determined that our blower motor wasn't up to par. Need a new one. Fine.

Took a few days for the new motor to arrive (they had to order it) but it did, they installed it. And we were lucky -- those intervening days were much cooler.

But then it happened again. The same sounds and other symptoms that didn't seem right, and E.G. turned it off again.

Sunday night was then a miserably hot night. We need to have several windows replaced -- way beyond our budget right now -- but most of the upstairs windows are not open-able. Made do with fans.

Monday, guy came to check things out. He thought the problem was just cottonwood cotton mucking up the outside fan/ making the system work harder than usual. He cleaned up the cottonwood cotton. He said that was the only problem he saw.

(These three visits so far -- initial checking-out, installation of new blower motor, and next checking-out, all involved me sitting around stuck at home -- unairconditioned home, on very hot days, for several hours at a time. They usually arrived at the end of a one-hour window and then stayed an hour or so.)

The A/C went back on. The house became a little less sweltering. Cue noises.

This time E.G. dashed out and saw the outdoor fan had seized up. It was supposed to be moving, but wasn't. When this happens, and I'll quote E.G. here, "the fluid can't cool the way it should, and so it comes back too hot and too pressurized (noisy), as I observed."

A/C off. Another bad, hot night (not nearly as bad as Sunday night/ Monday morning, though, which involved sozlet waking up repeatedly and having a hard time going back to sleep. Slept through the night last night.)

E.G. called the guys this morning, explained, and expressed frustration that so many service calls hadn't gotten at the core issue, when he'd described the same symptoms each time. Got an agreement to not have to pay the service fee for the last one and for the guy to come out today.

Fine.

Another 1-hour window. Another hot day in a hot house. The pool beckons. But no.

The window is 1-2. At 1:40 -- the guy's been delayed, is it OK if he comes between 2 and 2:30? Fine.

2:30 rolls by.

Nothing.

(Sozlet is on knock-alert.)

Email from E.G. at 3:06 PM. The guy was there at 2:30 and "nobody was home" so he left.

ARGHHHHHHH!


The guy said he "pounded" on the front door. Sozlet swears she didn't hear anything. We were in the kitchen, right by the front door. (Purposely.)

I don't know whose fault it is and it doesn't matter, really.


I sure am grimacing and gritting my teeth though.

Especially as the house gets hotter and hotter... (I'm urging on a storm front that may miss us.)


They'll be here tomorrow morning. We have a bunch of failsafe measures in place. (They'll call E.G., who will email me, and I'm putting a sign up directing them to the door with a window in it, and I'm camping in front of said door so they can just show up and wave...)



Sigh.

sozobe, how awful! (Do you suppose he was knocking on the neighbor's door?)

I hope that storm front makes it in and cools things down for you.

Erk...

Thanks for the sympathy, guys. It's really not THAT big of a deal, just highly irritating at the "petty" level. Especially all the stop-start, fixed-not-fixed crap.

Going out to dinner at a nice, cool, air-conditioned restaurant... we'll linger a while...

Good news is that the storm front is advancing pretty well, and will probably arrive in a couple of hours. That could really help enormously.

Just rolled through here, soz.......looks like it's on the edge of Delaware County now.

Temp prior to the storm was 89 .........Temp now is 72.

Definite relief on the way! Still muggy though.

Enjoy!

My heart goes out to you, Sozobe. Well, mostly my sweat glands, but my heart, too. (My a/c repair still is in the project-planning phase.)

About the doorbell: My mother has some clever electronic system that makes her telephone ring when someone presses the door bell. (Her doorbell/intercom unit is set up so that the phone system in her house "thinks" it's just another phone.) It occurs to me that this should work pretty well for you if you combine it with a portable phone set to vibrate. Just an idea.

Or the AC guy was just lying through his teeth.

Not mutually exclusive at all. Repairmen can lie through their teeth, and deaf people can have trouble hearing knocks on doors.

Indeed.

I have my doubts about not deaf children not hearing "pounding" on doors, though.

:wink:

Well, she's just a child. Who knows if she's learned to hear yet.

I think hearing is innate.


LISTENING? Well, that's another scan pan of bouillobaise (sp?) altogether.

...ahhhhhhh....

Thank you, Mother Nature, thank you.

It got DARK, and then windy, and then the rain hit, and it's now 69 degrees. That's a good 20-degree drop. (Ain't it lovely, Brooke?) Have all the windows open that will open, and things are getting much nicer already.


And yes, dlowan makes a very good hearing/ listening distinction. It's within the realm of possibility that there was an a/c guy pounding on the door and sozlet was oblivious. We were giving each other manicures! This requires concentration! (Her hearing is actually just fine these days -- we have the audiograms to prove it -- but yeah, the listening skills are so-so.)


How's your own a/c nightmare going, Thomas? Have you found some coping strategies or is it continuously awful? (I certainly hope the former...)

Well, it certainly helps to sweat.

Apart from this, it also helps to be in my airconditioned room at work or at my air-conditioned gym. I'm getting a lot of work and workouts done these days. I'd probably lose weight, but then the restaurants are airconditioned too ....

If you go to the healthy restaurants, sounds like you're set. :-)

I hardly dare ask about sleeping... (perhaps under your desk at work?)