Argh! Sitting here on the bed, feeling damn miserable and contemplating what to write, if anything, for today’s post, and the air conditioner, which has been pounding away all this hot, hot afternoon, goes...plunk! into SILENCE.
Ohhhhhh damn. It’s 6:30 and there’s no way I’ll get a repairman over here before the middle of the day tomorrow. If that soon.
As I continue to sit here, now feeling d-o-o-o-med, it turns right back on.
Whew! Hold that pose, dear Gadget!
Let’s hope it lasts until tomorrow morning. If it craps out tonight, I’ll have to take the dog and go to a motel. Can’t take this hacking, barking fulminating disease down to my son’s house…so we’ll have to cough (heh!!) up a chunk of dough to get into a cool-ish room. Goody….
COUGH is the operative term here. Cough and cough and cough and cough and cough and…. My gawd!
Well, truth to tell, the hacking has died down a little since yesterday, even since this morning. Either that or it’s me that’s dying down…
The covid infection does, maybe, seem to be fading back a little. Temp is down to 98.8 just now. That’s fairly high for me. Being a cold fish, my normal temp is about 97.6. Or lower. So anything over 98 is a fever for me. But I figure if it’s under 99, it’s a fairly low fever.
Fished the old steamer out of the back of a closet, filled it with water, set it on a TV table next to the bed, aimed it at my face, and plugged it in. Don’t know if it makes much difference, but figure it can’t do any harm. The air in Arizona is normally dry, and at this time of year, as spring goes out and summer contemplates its attack, we’re parched.
The WonderAccountants are having a family shindig over there across the street — the whole tribe has descended on them. She brought me a hamburger, which was mighty nice!
Fingers and toes crossed for the a/c unit! I don’t EVEN want to think about mine going out, especially in high summer. The electricity went out in my previous apartment building for two freaking days in June. I couldn’t afford to rent a motel room and had no friends/relatives who could take me in. Never again, please!
Mercifully, it came back on! Now, if it’ll just stay on, at least until I’m over this epizoötic,,,
One summer we had the power go down in the whole neighborhood, overnight. That was grand! This was before my son had moved back to Arizona. I slept on the floor with the dog… Tile actually stays pretty cool for several hours. And since heat rises, the floor is the “coolest” space in the house.
Ohhhh yes. How well do I still recall sleeping on the tile floor with fans blasting on is, in an attempt to keep JUST cool enough to grab a couple hours’ worth of sleep at night. The university had a pair of security guards who used to patrol the women’s dorms to be sure no untoward shenanigans were going on — they would stroll up the hall in the middle of the night. I can remember our door and the door for the girls’ room across the hall standing open…Cherie and I laying there on the “cool” concrete floor and seeing those two guys saunter past, peering into each room.
Yeah. Fun times….
Our central heating and AC unit went belly-up last June, just as we were gearing up for another hot, humid North Carolina summer. It wasn’t fixable, and for reasons both technical and financial we couldn’t replace it just then.
Instead, we bought several window units and distributed them throughout the house. It’s not ideal – those suckers are noisy – but with the window units and a couple of fans to distribute their output, the house stayed tolerable, and our electric bill went down. Now, the old unit was over a quarter century old, so a newer one might be considerably cheaper to operate and thus comparable to the window units. But as an interim measure, they haven’t been half bad.
Hope yours is repairable and continues to cool you for years to come!
Newer window units are almost surely more efficient than the ones we had back in the day. In fact, they MIGHT be more efficient than a whole-house unit, if you could limit the space you occupy — at least during the daylight hours.
Another way you can cut the AC bills is to supplement your power with solar panels — or even, if it can be done, replace the local power company’s input with power generated from solar panels. But that’s an expensive project in its own…so you’d have to be mighty sure it would work. Unclear to me how certain you could be of that, hereabouts.