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altivoIt was hot and sticky. The air conditioning quit, so it was hotter and stickier inside than outside. Several attempts to reset the system, which sometimes works, failed this time. Service must be called in the morning.
Failed ceiling light in the garage was repaired successfully, unlike the air conditioning. It seems that the vibrations of the garage door opener (which we don't really use much) had caused the internal connections of the socket to fail. A new socket, properly wired, did the trick.
In spite of the heat, I made pizza for dinner because I'd been promising to do so all weekend. It was good.
I completed the spinners newsletter, and added up my yardage for the month (944. a decent but not spectacular showing) and announced to the world that we'd completed our 50 mile challenge three months ahead of schedule. Last October we agreed to take on the collective task of spinning 50 miles of yarn in a year. As of July 1, we had reached 54 miles. So I moved the goalpost, and we will now try to make it to 75 miles by October 1. This is possible. If we maintain our present rate, we would come out with 72.5 miles. Only a little more push is necessary.
And that's the way it was.
Failed ceiling light in the garage was repaired successfully, unlike the air conditioning. It seems that the vibrations of the garage door opener (which we don't really use much) had caused the internal connections of the socket to fail. A new socket, properly wired, did the trick.
In spite of the heat, I made pizza for dinner because I'd been promising to do so all weekend. It was good.
I completed the spinners newsletter, and added up my yardage for the month (944. a decent but not spectacular showing) and announced to the world that we'd completed our 50 mile challenge three months ahead of schedule. Last October we agreed to take on the collective task of spinning 50 miles of yarn in a year. As of July 1, we had reached 54 miles. So I moved the goalpost, and we will now try to make it to 75 miles by October 1. This is possible. If we maintain our present rate, we would come out with 72.5 miles. Only a little more push is necessary.
And that's the way it was.
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Date: 2010-07-07 12:08 am (UTC)Hope that went well. It's just bloody hot here, the house is full of stagnant air and to top it off the fridge is dying (I have a back-up, although about half the size).
Thank goodness work was cool and comfy.
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Date: 2010-07-07 01:26 am (UTC)Service for the home system will not arrive until Thursday morning, so we have to make do. Hauled fans from the barn loft that hadn't been used since we moved here. Fortunately, they still work, though they were very dusty and had to be cleaned first.
I miss the back-up fridge we had in our previous house. It was an old gas powered Servel from the early 50s and just worked. Dead silent, no electricity required, as long as the gas was on it worked. It did produce some soot but we had it in an unfinished basement area so that was harmless enough. I would have been tempted to bring it with us out here, but we have no natural gas service here at all. That would have required replacing the burner element, and I'm sure the appropriate parts were unavailable. Also the gas utility didn't want anyone to use them any more and kept offering to pay $100 if we let them haul it away.
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Date: 2010-07-07 09:33 am (UTC)My back-up is an avocado green GE from 1975 that I had in my college room. It's about 10 cubic feet, is missing a shelf, has a lousy freezer, but works great to off-load the bulk items I buy at BJ's (milk, mostly, and eggs, butter, juices). I've a new 21 cubic foot coming next week and will have to make due until then.
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Date: 2010-07-07 11:01 am (UTC)The physics behind refrigeration that runs on heat is fascinating, and even today most people seem never to have heard of it.