Peak 1 is finished! It was my bitch this weekend! I played massive amounts of SSX3 this past Memorial Day weekend. And what a great weekend it was. Played hours upon hours of video games - mostly with Mike, got some reading done, saw The Day After Tomorrow the day after it came out...I'll let you think about that one for a while (good movie btw, Cheeze says SEE THAT MOVIE WHILE ITS STILL IN THE THEATER), and spent just about every minute of my 3-day weekend with Mike...it was super-excellent! Had a small group over yesterday for gaming, bbqing, and swimming in honor of the holiday. Got some of the people launching each other off into the pool on tape. We were being so so silly. Fun times but I sure am tired today.
I can't seem to find any recent updates of the AC Saga so here goes:
2 Thursdays Ago ~9pm: I come home to find a hot house again. Rage consumes me as I tear open the vent in the hall. No, just kidding, I used a screw driver and my step ladder, but I was pretty peeved. Entire inside unit is frozen over. I have dealt with this before and I actually knew what to do. Use my hair dryer to thaw it and then a tough scrubby brush to remove the nasties up there. It works fine for about 40 minutes before freezing over again.
Next Morning: After waking in a pool of sweat, I go to the shower in hopes of not being disgusting and find the water turned off for the day (found a notice in the dirt behind the grill after this). The rage continues. Put in a service call with the warrenty company, all goes well with that. 45 minutes later get a call from AC company #1, they apologize that the soonest they can come is Sunday so that gets scheduled.
Saturday: AC isn't freezing at higher temps such as ~82 degrees. We turn it down little by little and it seems to work.
Sunday: Turn the AC to 68 degrees to try to replicate the problem before the fix-it guy comes. No dice. I cancel the appt.
Monday Morning: I wake up in a pool of sweat again. I call the warrenty people, reopen the claim, 45 minutes later, AC Company #1 calls to schedule for that day. I am in a good mood.
Monday Night: I get home to a cool house.
Wednesday Night: I get around to looking over the bill and seeing what was wrong. It needed Freon, that's it. Funny, I had the outside unit replaced last month, why would it need Freon so soon?
Friday: I called the company and talked to the tech who serviced my house. He said that it isn't normal for it to need Freon so soon and that the company that replaced the unit last month didn't put the caps on the Freon chamber and also didn't charge it correctly. They advise me to call the warrenty company about getting my $40 (service fee deductable) back.
Today: Was on hold for a pretty long while with the warrenty company but I should be expecting a check within 7-14 business days.
Moral of the story: Old Republic Warrenty Company is awesome and I highly recommend them if you own your house - they are worth it.
I'm still hunting for jobs. All previous happenings have either fallen thru or don't exist anymore.
On Saturday I purchased a new 160 GB hard drive, a DVD Burner, and a firewire card. They should come in the mail hopefully before the weekend. Once installed I can get all my videos from my digital camcorder tapes into a more practical data form. I will be the talk of Kazaa yet! Mwahahaha! Currently all my computers and all my mom's computers work without problems... hell may have frozen over but this also may only be a test. But we'll see what happens when I install the new parts next week. That outta shut me up...unless I bleed on it and satisfy the computing gods that is. Once these parts and also my $216 one credit summer class at ASU is paid for, I priced building a nice compact little server for less than $400. This will drop the load my main computer has as it currently shares out the internet connection to the rest of the computers in the house (only 4 others at the moment) and will allow Miguel to have his ftp server back up and running for everyone who likes downloading all his goodies. And I will be able to turn my main computer OFF once in a while thus preserving its life span and the temperature in my room. Hopefully this will be done before I head to London in mid-July. It could be done right now but getting fired kinda sets me back a few bucks. Lets be frank here, I'm bitter and will always be bitter because the only thing wrong that I did was be too enthusiastic about working at my super cool job. (No, there was not any sarcasm in that last sentence, that is what happened - I finally found out the reason but am not posting because technically I shouldn't know and the names have been changed to protect the innocent).
More stuff to come later...mainly cause I have a bit of a headache right now. Ciao!
I can't seem to find any recent updates of the AC Saga so here goes:
2 Thursdays Ago ~9pm: I come home to find a hot house again. Rage consumes me as I tear open the vent in the hall. No, just kidding, I used a screw driver and my step ladder, but I was pretty peeved. Entire inside unit is frozen over. I have dealt with this before and I actually knew what to do. Use my hair dryer to thaw it and then a tough scrubby brush to remove the nasties up there. It works fine for about 40 minutes before freezing over again.
Next Morning: After waking in a pool of sweat, I go to the shower in hopes of not being disgusting and find the water turned off for the day (found a notice in the dirt behind the grill after this). The rage continues. Put in a service call with the warrenty company, all goes well with that. 45 minutes later get a call from AC company #1, they apologize that the soonest they can come is Sunday so that gets scheduled.
Saturday: AC isn't freezing at higher temps such as ~82 degrees. We turn it down little by little and it seems to work.
Sunday: Turn the AC to 68 degrees to try to replicate the problem before the fix-it guy comes. No dice. I cancel the appt.
Monday Morning: I wake up in a pool of sweat again. I call the warrenty people, reopen the claim, 45 minutes later, AC Company #1 calls to schedule for that day. I am in a good mood.
Monday Night: I get home to a cool house.
Wednesday Night: I get around to looking over the bill and seeing what was wrong. It needed Freon, that's it. Funny, I had the outside unit replaced last month, why would it need Freon so soon?
Friday: I called the company and talked to the tech who serviced my house. He said that it isn't normal for it to need Freon so soon and that the company that replaced the unit last month didn't put the caps on the Freon chamber and also didn't charge it correctly. They advise me to call the warrenty company about getting my $40 (service fee deductable) back.
Today: Was on hold for a pretty long while with the warrenty company but I should be expecting a check within 7-14 business days.
Moral of the story: Old Republic Warrenty Company is awesome and I highly recommend them if you own your house - they are worth it.
I'm still hunting for jobs. All previous happenings have either fallen thru or don't exist anymore.
On Saturday I purchased a new 160 GB hard drive, a DVD Burner, and a firewire card. They should come in the mail hopefully before the weekend. Once installed I can get all my videos from my digital camcorder tapes into a more practical data form. I will be the talk of Kazaa yet! Mwahahaha! Currently all my computers and all my mom's computers work without problems... hell may have frozen over but this also may only be a test. But we'll see what happens when I install the new parts next week. That outta shut me up...unless I bleed on it and satisfy the computing gods that is. Once these parts and also my $216 one credit summer class at ASU is paid for, I priced building a nice compact little server for less than $400. This will drop the load my main computer has as it currently shares out the internet connection to the rest of the computers in the house (only 4 others at the moment) and will allow Miguel to have his ftp server back up and running for everyone who likes downloading all his goodies. And I will be able to turn my main computer OFF once in a while thus preserving its life span and the temperature in my room. Hopefully this will be done before I head to London in mid-July. It could be done right now but getting fired kinda sets me back a few bucks. Lets be frank here, I'm bitter and will always be bitter because the only thing wrong that I did was be too enthusiastic about working at my super cool job. (No, there was not any sarcasm in that last sentence, that is what happened - I finally found out the reason but am not posting because technically I shouldn't know and the names have been changed to protect the innocent).
More stuff to come later...mainly cause I have a bit of a headache right now. Ciao!
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