%!&#*378rd Official Hard At Work Thread!%&#!*%
08-12-2016, 10:21 AM
#1453
08-15-2016, 02:39 AM
#1455
Community Organizer
I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. This heat isn't helping any either. 
Monday.
Monday.
08-15-2016, 04:09 AM
#1456
This weekend was gross. 
08-15-2016, 04:20 AM
#1457
Community Organizer
I was outside in it for the first half of the day on Saturday. Gross indeed. x eleventy billion Looks like we might catch a bit of a break after Tuesday?
08-15-2016, 05:06 AM
#1458
Catching up on yard work this weekend was terrible. It needed it, though. First chance Inhave had since Nicaragua.
08-15-2016, 05:10 AM
#1459
So...
Liz and I went exploring around Ellicott City yesterday--not the part that got flooded out, but up in the woods. As we were leaving one of Howard County's finest was coming up the hill and informed us that the river was closed, parks were closed, etc. Se we left. But not before he gave me a parking ticket. Mind you, this was not a closed parking area because of the flood, it is a place I have parked at many times before. Apparently something changed. So, I owe the good citizens of HoCo $50.
But it gets better. We get home and the house was feeling a little toasty. I look at the thermometer, and see we are at 78; it is set at 71. That is not good. I go outside and the compressor fan is not spinning, and there is a little bit of an electrical smell. I go inside, reset the system and get the same result. I then push the fan blade, and the unit starts up. I was happy I temporarily fixed it. But alas, I did not. Temp kept rising. I made a couple phone calls and did some work in the storm that blew by last night, and it is the capacitor. Going to cost $50 for the part and I can sleep upstairs tonight. As it is, it is too hot in the house for our old dog. She is at work with me today.
While we were diagnosing the A/C we also went looking for window A/C's just in case. We went to:
Home Depot--out of stock
Lowes--only had 230v units
Wal Mart--out of stock
Target--we called and they had some in Annapolis! We drove to Annapolis and looked for them, but we could not find them. Come to find out, they were actually out of stock too. So that was fun.
We slept in the basement with a fan and dehum on. At least it was dry heat and the air was moving.
Liz and I went exploring around Ellicott City yesterday--not the part that got flooded out, but up in the woods. As we were leaving one of Howard County's finest was coming up the hill and informed us that the river was closed, parks were closed, etc. Se we left. But not before he gave me a parking ticket. Mind you, this was not a closed parking area because of the flood, it is a place I have parked at many times before. Apparently something changed. So, I owe the good citizens of HoCo $50.
But it gets better. We get home and the house was feeling a little toasty. I look at the thermometer, and see we are at 78; it is set at 71. That is not good. I go outside and the compressor fan is not spinning, and there is a little bit of an electrical smell. I go inside, reset the system and get the same result. I then push the fan blade, and the unit starts up. I was happy I temporarily fixed it. But alas, I did not. Temp kept rising. I made a couple phone calls and did some work in the storm that blew by last night, and it is the capacitor. Going to cost $50 for the part and
I can sleep upstairs tonight. As it is, it is too hot in the house for our old dog. She is at work with me today.While we were diagnosing the A/C we also went looking for window A/C's just in case. We went to:
Home Depot--out of stock
Lowes--only had 230v units
Wal Mart--out of stock
Target--we called and they had some in Annapolis! We drove to Annapolis and looked for them, but we could not find them. Come to find out, they were actually out of stock too. So that was fun.
We slept in the basement with a fan and dehum on. At least it was dry heat and the air was moving.
08-15-2016, 05:11 AM
#1460
Community Organizer
