I have these really weird windows. They are picture windows to be exact, but with sections that are oddly shaped. The left and right sections open, but horizontally instead of vertically, you use a crank to open them. A little lever pushes it open to about a 110-degree angle.
Why am I telling you this?
Yesterday was the first day I used my A/C this year. It’s a window model, except it’s not designed for this type of window. I’ve heard they make A/Cs for this type of window, but they’re more expensive. I’m a cheapskate; so I bought this one, it was on sale.
Anyhow, to be cheap sometimes requires creativity. I designed a system to use this A/C with my unusual windows. It’s probably take a little long to detail but suffice it to say it takes an hour to set-up, that’s why yesterday was the first day I used it this year. Did I mention I’m also lazy? Yesterday it was too hot to be lazy, not to mention; “Stuffy, when are you going to hook up the A/C?” was getting a little tiring. Seems 23 times is my limit.
But I didn’t come here to tell you any of that.
While I was installing the A/C Mrs. Stuffy says “Why is it so dark in here?” In her what the hell are you destroying now voice. She has a point, the light has noticeably dimmed, but I’m not the cause. Maybe the fogs rolling in I suggest (actually just something to get her focus off me). “No it’s clear” she says, then I remember, “oh yeah there’s an eclipse today, honey.”
“But it’s not dark out” she says. It’s only a partial one I say. “Doesn’t seem right that they’d call it an eclipse if it’s not dark”. Talk to Mr. Webster, I say. “Huh?” she says. I said why don’t you show the boys. “How” I run through a quick description of the paper hole trick. “What?” I climb down from the wall, we go outside I demonstrate, and we spend the next few minutes looking at the suns reflection.
We go back inside, when my wife asks “When are you going to finish setting up the A/C”. I could get off, right?