98 degrees. More humidity than in a sumo wrestler’s jock strap. And my AC is dead.
Remind me why home ownership is a good idea again?
Because you can fix the problem yourself, instead of waiting twelve days for the landlord to do it for you . . . .
sigh
- Gukumatz,
Who has been sweating his ass off i 25c+ weather in Norway for nearly two weeks with no air conditioning. Norwegians are not built for this shit!
If you feel like making the drive, I’ve got a 6,000 BTU/hr window unit you can borrow to cool off one small to mid-sized room until you get your main unit back up.
And are you sure the AC itself is dead and not just a blown circuit breaker or a flaky thermostat? What were the failure symptoms?
You don’t have four hungry children and crops in the field, do you?
I’m sorry about the AC. We lost our AC in South Carolina one summer and couldn’t afford to get it fixed. NOT a fun time. Being hot and sticky all the time is miserable, especially at night while you’re trying to sleep.
I feel ya. Our AC has decided it doesn’t want to blow cold air anymore, and it’s been in the 90s and humid as hell the last couple of weeks. And I can’t afford to fix it because due to circumstances not entirely under our control we’re about 1 week and $1500 away from losing our house.
I suppose if we have to move into my mother’s basement it’ll be cooler down there.
You are an evil, evil witch. I was specifically trying NOT to get that song stuck in my head when I read the thread title. I’ll get you for this; just you wait.
That’s really kind of you, but work is insane at the moment, and if they cannot fix it tomorrow I am going to Home Depot.
I just moved in - it is the first time I used it. It worked for about 20 minutes, then just stopped blowing air. It could be the control unit I guess, so hopefully we will find out soon.
When I moved in I knew things would need replacing. I just hoped that some of them would limp on, so I could space the replacements out. Everything is fucking up at the same time…
I guess I should apologize for the thread title (which was totally deliberate). But seeing as I am sat here in the equivalent of a sauna, I am low on sympathy for others… 
Mine was 20+ years old. I was told the furnace wouldn’t last much longer 6 years ago. So I decided to preemptively replace them before I needed to. If nothing else, I can tell myself the new units are about 30% more efficient.
You have been on MMO prerelease forums too long when:
You read this title as “You picked a fine time to leave me, Asheron’s Call.”
Ours went out last Saturday, and since we’re in the Annapolis area, it was definitely warming up then. We didn’t get it fixed till Monday, but it turned out to just be a blown capacitor, not an expensive fix. And even more fortunately, our landlord, who is a really decent young man who’s in the Army Reserve and is currently sweating his ass off in Iraq, offered to actually put us up in a hotel if if took too long to fix and we got too hot! Needless to say, we did not take him up on it.
AC always, always picks the worst possible time to die. Like the time mine died in when I was living in Texas and it was 105° every day. And it took four days to get it fixed. And I worked at home. Did you know computers won’t function over about 90°?
Well, yeah, AC only fails when it’s hot.
Because you only run it when it’s hot! 
I remember when ours went out on us during a major heat wave a few years ago. We holed up in a movie theater and watched March of the Penguins. 
Why do they call it air conditioning anyway? It doesn’t really condition the air in any sense of the word that I use. Why not “air cooler?” That even has the same acronym! That’s what I’m going to call it from now on.
Because it does more than merely cool the air; it also dehumidifies it.
Ours has gone out during the hottest part of the last two summers. Last year all the repair guys were backed up and it took them 10 days to get out here. Ten days in 115+ degree weather with no A/C. I’ll never understand how or why people lived in this valley in the days before air conditioning.
Take out the food and shelves, strip down and go sleep in the refrigerator. Close the door when it is time for bed so that the light turns off.
My AC in my car decided to die yesterday on the first really hot day we have had so far. On the way to an old friends funeral, lovely timing. Of course I choose to wear a charcoal gray shirt underneath my suit jacket. I pretty much looked like a wet dishrag when I arrived.
This is why I don’t play the lottery or go to the casinos.
I feel for ya, villa! My a/c died about a week after my first husband walked out. He hadn’t done anything like “maintenance” on it in the seven or so years we’d lived there, and, of course, it croaked when he didn’t have to deal with it anymore. I’ve had window-units ever since (except that on Thursday we close on a brand new house with brand new central air! Yay!!!)
Worse than that, though, was after Hurricane Jeanne in 2004. I live in west central Florida. Our power was out for a week and a half, which meant no air, no fans, nothing. We gave up after one night and moved in with some friends (God bless 'em!) until we got electricity back.
My suggestions? Get a motel until it’s fixed - it’s worth the $$. Otherwise, hang out in Starbucks, Borders, or anywhere else cool for as long as possible, use lots of fans, and take a cold shower right before bed.
Good luck!