Archive for July, 2005

I really understand how hot 102 degrees is now

I was thinking to myself last night while watching the news about the heatwave in Chicago right now "Pfft, it’s hot, but how are there heat-related deaths and such?"

Well, I said that while sitting on my couch with the A/C kicking out ice cubes.

About 5:00 last night, the power at our house had 2 minor spikes. Turned off for seconds, and then back on. I didnt think of it as a big deal since that’s bound to happen when everyone that owns a Air Conditioner is going to have it on during a day like this. Then about an hour later I’m starting to get a little uncomfortable, so I walked over to the vents in my living room to find out what the deal is with the cold air, then find… there is no cold air. Durning that power surge, it somehow f’ed our A/C. The blower on the furnace is still going, but the actual Air Conditioner outside stopped working. I’m thinking it’s some sort of fuse problem since the circuit it’s on is fine, but I’m not electrician, and there’s no way I was sticking my hand in that fuse panel on the A/C unit without knowing wtf I was doing.

So last night was unbearable as shit trying to sleep. We opened the windows in hopes of catching some breeze, but when it’s still 90+ degrees at 8:00 at night, it’s just HOT. Right now it’s about 85 degrees in the house, and it was impossible to get a good nights sleep last night. Any time I would nod off for even a few minutes, I’d wake back up because of the heat.

 

Hopefully we can get it fixed tonight since it’s still in the 90′s here. After today it’s supposed to cool off a bit (meaning 80′s, hardly COOL!), but I can only imagine how hot it’s going to be in there for the next few days.

Our cats keep coming over to us whining like crazy because of the heat. Deal with it, Jen and I are!

So this is warning, if I’m crabby w/ anyone over the next day or two, I’ll just give you the URL to this post as an explanation

 

[Listening to: Nothin' But a Good Time - Poison]

softball’s over :-(

Well last night was the championships in our softball league We won our first game, so we were in the finals, and then it happened. The ump was actually calling a pretty fair game, and then on a grounder to short.. the throw to first, it beat me, but the first basemans foot was off the base *OUT* wtf? did you just say OUT? The arguing started. This was a big call. We were down 3 runs in the 6th inning. Blown call Even the first baseman said (AFTER the game of course) that he was off the bag. I wasnt going crazy I knew I was safe. Such bullshit. But in all of it, I guess it wasnt meant to be. What a turnaround we made in this season though. Last year we were pretty much the league whipping boys This year we were playing in the championship game, and came THISCLOSE to winning. Ah well, Fall ball starts up in a few weeks, we’ll be back.

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