a.k.a. “Reason #1,204,556 why I love my family.”

I fixed my A/C drain!

All it took was a frantic call to Mom to vent, then a call to my sister Laura to find out WTF was going on.

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Why is it that every home improvement project I tackle, there has to be SOMETHING that goes wrong?

Granted, this one isn’t my fault, and had nothing to do with the project.

I work with my iPod playing. I’m painting, minding my own business when I step into a puddle of COLD water. I’m nowhere near the sink, actually – I’m by the HVAC. I open the door and there’s a steady stream of water coming out of a random pipe all over my floor. My furnace filter is now all wet, and I discover that the fucking MORON who installed the new furnace before I took possession of the house CUT THE HOSE FOR THE A/C and just left it dangling off into nowhere. There’s no drain anywhere in there for the water to go down and now since the asshole CUT the hose instead of, oh I don’t know, remove and replace it – I had to turn off the A/C.

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Back at my old apartment, there was tons of lounge chairs for use by the people who lived there. On the weekend (or when I was on vacation), I loved going down there with a bottle of water, a book or my iPod and just sit outside and enjoy the nice weather.

Well, since I moved, I really couldn’t take one of those lounge chairs with me. So I’ve been on the search for a cheap lounge chair of my very own. “Cheap” is less than $20.

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I have yet resisted turning on my air conditioning this year. So when I’m in my computer room, I sit with the windows open (and a cat sitting on the desk looking out the window). My neighbors in the next building have their windows open all the time too.

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Time: 34:38
Distance: 3.42 miles

Notes: Ran outside. Used PodRunner.com’s “Emotion In Motion (155bpm)” mix. Right knee/shin was feeling a bit wonky – hope there’s nothing going on there. I think I’ll need to buy new running shoes in the next few weeks – perhaps I’ve run these out and they’re just not doing it anymore. Continue reading →