Mr. Fix-it Strikes Again

Today was day two of my air-conditioning repair marathon. After the filter replacement, I’d walked around the house holding my hand near all the outlets to feel if we were getting cool air out of them. Found one, the one near the back wall of our bedroom, that was not really working. Damn, no wonder our bedroom has been warmer than normal for a while. Shown a flashlight down there and it looked like the ductwork had fallen off the register.

It figures it would have to be this one, as it is almost the furthest one from the little door into the crawl space under the house. I got on some old clothes, grabbed the flashlight and a roll of duct tape. Crawled around on my belly like a dog soldier creeping up on enemy lines and dodged other ducts and pipes like bullets and tracers to get to where I needed to be. The actual repair went pretty fast and smooth. Duct tape is a marvelous tool and I have used it for a hundred different things, but this was the first time I actually used it for its intended purpose.

CD Mix Part Deaux

Found another blogger that is running a CD swap. Ever since the demise of Crabwalk’s CD Mix of the Month earlier this year I have been jonesin’ for a free music swap, but am to lazy to actually run one (besides the list of regular readers here is too small.) I *have* swapped a couple discs with one semi-regular, Sinclair of Hello Mr. Mackenzie fame since then.

This one is not monthly, best I can tell this is the second in a sporadic series, but I have signed up to play Burn-It. If you want in, better hurry, sign-ups end Tuesday.

Purchased Today: Zero
Money spent since 03/03/03: $859.63
Started down, still down.
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It’s A Wonder That Any Air Got Through At All

Something, I’m not sure what, triggered my memory to change the filter in the central air conditioning unit today. I remembered that I hadn’t changed it in a while, a long while, but couldn’t remember exactly when. It was probably more than a year ago judging by how dirty that sucker was. Next month’s power bill will probably be 20% less…

Stuck Being A Thousandaire

Well, two winning tickets to the powerball game were sold, unfortunately neither was one of the 18 tickets we held for our group buy at work. Just to be sure I asked the fellow at work who was buying the tickets did he take a trip to Missouri or Pennsylvania to buy this week. He said no.

The jackpot for this coming Saturday is only $10 million, hardly worth the effort to go to the store and buy a ticket.

How Does He Concentrate?

Sitting here blogging and watching my beloved Red Sox play the Blue Jays in a window in the upper right. The centerfield camera shows the angle that the pitcher gets as he is throwing to the plate. They are playing in Toronto and there are some seats at playing field level that must have their own waitress to get them their refreshments. I can’t help but think that must be distracting to have her walking back and forth delivering nachos and beers and whatnot back there while the he is winding up.

I know she is distracting me as she looks pretty good in my little fuzzy window.

Double Stick Tape Failure

Well not the stickiness part of the tape, but the foam in the middle. A few weeks back I installed a 3rd brake light flasher that a fellow I work with is making. I used double stick tape to hold it in place in a spot in the top of the trunk. Today on the way home from work when I closed the trunk there was a loud rattle that I didn’t recognize. I opened it back up and there was my ABIA hanging by the wires. Sticky stuff still on the car and sticky stuff on the unit, just the foam had torn.

Going to remount it tonight using Velcro and epoxy. Epoxy one side of the Velcro to the ABIA and epoxy the other side to the cubby hole in the trunk. We’ll see if this will last longer than 2-1/2 months.

Purchased Today: Nuttin’
Money spent since 03/03/03: $859.63
Started down, still down.
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Why Is There Always A Cop Around When You Don’t Need Them

Went out this evening to snap some photos of the car after being inspired by this web page. Found a deserted parking lot on the north side of town and parked my car in it at an angle. I was hoping to catch the sun going down in the background and then get some other pictures after sunset in the magic twilight. Right after I snapped photo number one, who should pull in, but an Aiken Public Safety Officer. Of course I was nervous even though I was doing nothing really wrong. He was just checking to see if I was all right and wished me good luck with the pictures once I explained what I was doing.