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Payday isn't until tomorrow, so I haven't picked the air conditioner up yet.
In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out how to keep the kid's grubby paws off of it, once it's installed.
Lemme explain...
The roomie's youngest isn't what you'd call spoiled; but she's stubbornly trying to be.
It's interesting, observing her around her friends, where she speaks and acts like a normal 12 yr. old; and then watching her around her mother, where she adopts a babyish lisp, a more childish demeanor and whines constantly for help and service. "get me this... I don't know hoooooow... Mommy... mommy... mommy... "
Don't worry, 'mommy' isn't fooled; I think her daughter gets away with this with her Dad, but here, it's just annoying to everyone, and RoomMom will just withdraw to her own personal space. [Rule is, in this house: If the door is closed- Do Not Fork With!]
However, the LIl'Devil has figured out a way to dominate the household ...by staying up later than everyone else, and having the place to herself.
It started around Christmas, with so many school holidays, she'd convinced her Mom that she didn't have to have a bedtime, and she would stay up as late as she wanted; watching and falling asleep in front of the TV.
I, La Loca, didn't like that because Lil'D would leave every light in the house on, as well as the furnace, just for her own avarice. (MY Gawg, even the nieghbors noticed!)
That only happened once or twice, since La Loca also has bat-radar, which tells her even in her sleep, that power is being wasted in her humble abode
Das ist verboten!!!
I'd get up at O'dark thirty, stumbling sleepily down the hallway, flicking light switches off as I went- click-click, snap, flick, click, snap-snap... till I'd reach the thermostat, and with a *thunk* turned that extravagance off.
Of course, the lil devil pushed it, and tried to turn the shit back on, after I'd left.
...afterwards/which my Roomie got angry, caffine-fueled text messages to the effect that that was b*llshit!!! And wouldn't stand!
Slowly, the young devil is getting better discliplined, but she has to learn that the AC is a luxury, not a privilage and she can't presume to turn it on all the time, whenever she wants it. Loca-dar works for cooling as well as, heating systems!
Limits must be set.
In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out how to keep the kid's grubby paws off of it, once it's installed.
Lemme explain...
The roomie's youngest isn't what you'd call spoiled; but she's stubbornly trying to be.
It's interesting, observing her around her friends, where she speaks and acts like a normal 12 yr. old; and then watching her around her mother, where she adopts a babyish lisp, a more childish demeanor and whines constantly for help and service. "get me this... I don't know hoooooow... Mommy... mommy... mommy... "
Don't worry, 'mommy' isn't fooled; I think her daughter gets away with this with her Dad, but here, it's just annoying to everyone, and RoomMom will just withdraw to her own personal space. [Rule is, in this house: If the door is closed- Do Not Fork With!]
However, the LIl'Devil has figured out a way to dominate the household ...by staying up later than everyone else, and having the place to herself.
It started around Christmas, with so many school holidays, she'd convinced her Mom that she didn't have to have a bedtime, and she would stay up as late as she wanted; watching and falling asleep in front of the TV.
I, La Loca, didn't like that because Lil'D would leave every light in the house on, as well as the furnace, just for her own avarice. (MY Gawg, even the nieghbors noticed!)
That only happened once or twice, since La Loca also has bat-radar, which tells her even in her sleep, that power is being wasted in her humble abode
Das ist verboten!!!
I'd get up at O'dark thirty, stumbling sleepily down the hallway, flicking light switches off as I went- click-click, snap, flick, click, snap-snap... till I'd reach the thermostat, and with a *thunk* turned that extravagance off.
Of course, the lil devil pushed it, and tried to turn the shit back on, after I'd left.
...afterwards/which my Roomie got angry, caffine-fueled text messages to the effect that that was b*llshit!!! And wouldn't stand!
Slowly, the young devil is getting better discliplined, but she has to learn that the AC is a luxury, not a privilage and she can't presume to turn it on all the time, whenever she wants it. Loca-dar works for cooling as well as, heating systems!
Limits must be set.
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...and two months later, I've finally bought the unit!
Unlike the midwest, summer in San Ho was not so hellacious as the record breaking assault across the Bible-Belt. Nor was it so Avalon-esque as the North SF Bay area where LJ resides in mists and perpetual gloom (j/k LJ
)
Nope... the home could withstand the temps up to the ninties just fine, but as stated, I was concerned for the health and comfort of my tenants, should the heat get higher than that. However... it has not. In fact, it's getting cooler as Fall arrives, which means the seasonal clearance sales have begun!
It was at Big Lots (formerly called McFrugal's, which I liked better) that the utmost discount of devices was discovered.
I couldn't pass it up; it met all requirements; was a floor model used for display AND I'd just gotten a phat paycheck from the manufacturing job. With such a celestial aligning of the financial fates and stars; I had to buy it.
An Air Conditioner of good parentage and Sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics: A GE 10,000 BTU with built in circuit breaker, it's 20" wide and can fit in my 21" window.
I figured even if there are no more hot days ahead this year, next year I may need AC and you couldn't find such a cheap price ever again:
$90-!!!
...
Woo-Hoo! The Spucklers gave me a ride downtown to pick it up, and I'll be installing it shortly
Unlike the midwest, summer in San Ho was not so hellacious as the record breaking assault across the Bible-Belt. Nor was it so Avalon-esque as the North SF Bay area where LJ resides in mists and perpetual gloom (j/k LJ
)Nope... the home could withstand the temps up to the ninties just fine, but as stated, I was concerned for the health and comfort of my tenants, should the heat get higher than that. However... it has not. In fact, it's getting cooler as Fall arrives, which means the seasonal clearance sales have begun!
It was at Big Lots (formerly called McFrugal's, which I liked better) that the utmost discount of devices was discovered.
I couldn't pass it up; it met all requirements; was a floor model used for display AND I'd just gotten a phat paycheck from the manufacturing job. With such a celestial aligning of the financial fates and stars; I had to buy it.
An Air Conditioner of good parentage and Sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics: A GE 10,000 BTU with built in circuit breaker, it's 20" wide and can fit in my 21" window.
I figured even if there are no more hot days ahead this year, next year I may need AC and you couldn't find such a cheap price ever again:
$90-!!!
...
Woo-Hoo! The Spucklers gave me a ride downtown to pick it up, and I'll be installing it shortly
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~whew~ AC is EXPENSIVE...
After delaying installation to manufacture a windowshelf (No, La Loca was NOT going to buy one; not when they were too pricey for such inferior, weak sheet-metal) ...I got the air conditioner in, just in time for a few warm days in September ...just a few. Didn't set it lower than 74°... and cane-whipped the youngest roomie-girl, if she so much as looked at it... (No, I kid. I just had it taped off, so that no one but I, La Loca, had permission to turn it on.)
Then the electricity bill came in today ( with the rent invoice) ...and it was $30 higher than last month!!! ...!!! $30...!!!!
...chingo, I can't imagine running this thing for a whole summer long.
For now, it's a hot Indian Summer and hopefully one more day won't hurt the wallet too much.
After delaying installation to manufacture a windowshelf (No, La Loca was NOT going to buy one; not when they were too pricey for such inferior, weak sheet-metal) ...I got the air conditioner in, just in time for a few warm days in September ...just a few. Didn't set it lower than 74°... and cane-whipped the youngest roomie-girl, if she so much as looked at it... (No, I kid. I just had it taped off, so that no one but I, La Loca, had permission to turn it on.)
Then the electricity bill came in today ( with the rent invoice) ...and it was $30 higher than last month!!! ...!!! $30...!!!!
...chingo, I can't imagine running this thing for a whole summer long.
For now, it's a hot Indian Summer and hopefully one more day won't hurt the wallet too much.
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oldr_n_wsr
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$30 is maybe one week here on Long Island (if you conserve) and without AC.
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I let my A/C blow cold when needed (near 100 degrees F today).
Can't stand the heat and will pay the money required to stay cool.
Can't stand the heat and will pay the money required to stay cool.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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oldr_n_wsr
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Me too. Give me under 20 degrees F with snow and I am happy.Can't stand the heat and will pay the money required to stay cool.
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How about I give you my damned heating bill! With oil so damned expensive, I think I need more coal and wood. Have two cords of seasoned and three of green wood, plus about 30 old pallets...need at least another ton of anthracite.
I fucking hate winter.
I fucking hate winter.
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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Why do you live there?
I'll take the Meditteranean climate of CA any day over anything in other parts of the USA.
I'll take the Meditteranean climate of CA any day over anything in other parts of the USA.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Last I remembered, you were in Pa. Winters are not that bad there. In fact while LI was geting peltted with feets of snow (a year or two back) you people got nothing. I do have a house in NE Pa. near Narrowsburg NY.Jarlaxle wrote:How about I give you my damned heating bill! With oil so damned expensive, I think I need more coal and wood. Have two cords of seasoned and three of green wood, plus about 30 old pallets...need at least another ton of anthracite.
I fucking hate winter.
Now I knw amount of snowfall has next to nothing to do with overall temperature (which does relate to your heating bill), last year the lake outside my house (in Pa.) froze over enough for the ice fishermen to fish about two weekends last year. And that has not happened since the early 70's.
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dales wrote:I let my A/C blow cold when needed (near 100 degrees F today).
Can't stand the heat and will pay the money required to stay cool.
Day before last, the company decided to turn on the AC {Artic Conditions} ...bastards! It was freaking' cold inside and muggy hot outside; pneumonia anyone?