Tuck some ice cubes in your bra!
Great idea, but have to stay home for the AC repair guy. My luck, after sitting home for a day and a half, he’d come in the 20 minutes I’m gone to da store for popsicles.
Now there’s an idea! Have fixed a tall glass of Coke Zero with as 
many ice cubes as I could cram in. Out of fresh lime though.
Thanks for the thoughts friends!
Boo I’m sending “Get there” thoughts to your AC guy. In the mean time, grab a bag of frozen peas and slap it on the back of your neck.
Keep calling. Mention your poor cats, who are weak and suffering. Cry. I am also sending hurry TF up thoughts to the AC people.
If I could send you some Trader Joe’s cookie butter ice cream, I would, bippity. I had it for the first time last night and I am in love.
I hope the AC guy gets there soon!
Our water heater isn’t older’n the hills, but it was installed when the hills were still under warranty.
We aren’t messing with it until we have to s I suspect it wasn’t installed to code.
They don’t get paid much. We used to know a fellah (about 20 years ago) whose son was a minor league player, and at that time he got $800/mo.
I still haven’t forgiven Coke for discontinuing Lime Coke. And no, Ginger Lime isn’t a suitable replacement. 
That would require her to put her bra on.
We’re driving back to the valley today, but first I have to poop scoop and mow the yard.
Later.
How did you know!? 
I’ve been married a looooong time. 
Only 20% of Orange Tabby cats are female. Ralphie is indeed a great and wonderous cat, thanks
Creamsicke was female.
Glad you’re in hot water again VanGo. 
metal mouse, it rained most of the night here and was just stopping when I got up.
Yay for Nikki’s clean bill of healthy shoe!
The tooth extraction is feeling pretty good today. The gums around it are still swollen and a bit touchy (won’t be eating peanuts or steak for a while), but it appears to be healing well.
I put my app / CV in for another position with the company today. It would mean working four ten hour evenings a week, but I think the leadership in that department would be better to work for. I also think my supe may be skating on thin ice at this point. Some of the vibes that I’ve gotten from her say scared. Oh, well. I know shit rolls downhill, but there are things some of us old timers in the department could have helped her with had she not done us dirty.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Evening all. Just watched a bunch of Amtrak trains here and there on the Virtual Railfan, need to climb on a train or two sometime soon…but nothing runs through my neck of the woods… Rain has been off and on all day, did manage to get out and do a little shopping and Staples was nice enough to laminate my new dental card (Aetna doesn’t issue them anymore but you can print them out on-line) and didn’t charge me for it. Outside of solving all my Wednesday puzzles and a long hot bath, it has not been a too-active day here at Casa Rat.
VanGo, good news on the hot water front.
shoe, glad Nikki is the picture of health…now you stay that way, too…
red, hope you’re reading the signals right and you get while the gettin’s good.
BBBoo, hope things are getting cooler for you, one way or another.
FCM, congrats on the ceiling.
Cheeseburger has been consumed and is happily being digested, so all is right with the world. All y’all take care.
With my birfday coming up, my driver license is due for a renew. NY has said that I need to get an eye exam from a reputable source within a year. Mine eyeballs are getting elder, I probably won’t get the pass on not needing any glasses anymore, which is fine, since I haven’t gone glassesless since I graduated high school. (I was waaay too cool to wear glasses in high school.)
metal mouse I too have cheeseburgered. And am now watching my beloved Sox flounder against the Astros…
Actually, it is starting to, thank you. The technician just left (at 6:45pm, worked 90 minutes, didn’t charge any after hours extra).
Two problems: the motor on the AC unit outside is on its last ledge and needed a “starter assist” module to help it turn on on command from the thermostat. It’s a crutch, but I’ll take it vs needing to replace the entire AC unit at $4000+ RIGHT NOW! If I get another cooling season out of it, it will be worth it. Turns out the unit was installed in 1994 so it’s done well to get this far. Then again, the tech said he’s known units go for 40 years. 
for me folks. He worked long and hard to get it going again for me.
Now here is the sh*tty part: the reason it would turn on but not stay on was because one of the 4 companies I had in to give me an estimate on replacing my furnace in February had unplugged the condensate pump so it turned off after running just long enough to raise the condensate level enough that the float turned the whole works off because the excess wasn’t being pumped away. He called doing that an “old salesman’s trick” and he had seen it before.
So, he plugged that pump back in (shaking his head the whole while), wired in the ‘starter assist’, cleaned out the leaves and oak seeds and $324 Boo seems to have AC and he has trudged off to the rest of his long list of sweltering houses. I imagine I had a lot of company last Friday when I turned on my AC for the first time this season and got…flwttt…nothing. It’s been a hot 6 days. Note to self: don’t turn your AC on for the first time on Friday afternoon just before the weekend of the first bad heat wave. Turn it on on a Monday or Tuesday, before you really need it.
Now to dig the last remnants of those 
out of my bra…
Thanks for all the good thoughts and morale support! It worked!
[I am going to get some popsicles in stock in my freezer…just in case]
I’ve finished the afghan/lap robe. It helped me use up a LOT of scrap yarn.
And the project wasn’t what FCD had been led to believe it was. He hasn’t decided if he’ll do it or not. For much of his career, he’s been the go-to guy when things start falling apart and crunch time sets in. He’s really good at fixing thing that other people have screwed up. Unfortunately, he hates those sorts of things. He wants to be brought in at the beginning so design and analysis can take everything into consideration - you know - the logical way to do things. Instead, projects seem to go in random directions at once and when they try to bring it all together, there are issues - DUH! He hates having to deal with issues caused by bad initial design. On the other hand, they pay him a butt-ton of money to do it.
Anyway, dunno if he’s going to take it on or not.
First thing tomorrow, I’ll put the basement back together. At 11, Higgs goes to the groomer. And Roxy will get here around 1:30. My daughter sent a string of fairy lights for Roxy’s house - I’m going to try to put them up tomorrow if I have time. RoxStar will stay for supper and her mom will take her home around 6:30. So, full day ahead.
Meanwhile, I think I’ll sleep with Mel tonight.
Yay on the working AC, Boo! Sucky salesmen, that crap should be ittegal.
That’s messed up, BOO and I am happy for you that finally, eventually, your personal micro climate is improving.
Agreed. But, I do believe in karma and some day, whoever did that hoping to make a sale off my misery and cluelessness, some day they are going to need a catheter and a nurse is going to decide on the size of that catheter and how much lubricant to use, indeed, whether to use lubricant at all. All nursing is a sisterhood and karma is a bitch all you nefarious furnace salesmen.
Mrs. L.A. said maybe we could go up to Canada when the border opens and get some crab. I said we could get it locally. I said, ‘Hey! Maybe I could get some crab on Saturday for my Birthday Dinner!’ She said, ‘That doesn’t sound like much of a birthday dinner. You’ll have to do the cooking and the killing.’ I said, ‘The killing! That’s the present!’
You are now assimilated. “One of us, one of us. We accept you, one of us.”
Hades Annex (my workplace, for those who don’t know) is still upheaving. Seems schedules will be changing back to what it was like when I arrived there four years ago (sob), going back to multiple shifts and 7 days/week. Still awaiting word on when that cushion will be there for my escape.
One minor piece of good news: they’re giving $1/hr raises (which puts us at $16/hr. We’re in California). One can only speculate on whether this is influenced by other call centers in the area typically paying STARTING wage of $18/hr and how many are actively looking to leave.
Traffic will be truly heinous for a few days with a major freeway being completely closed from Friday night to Wednesday morning.