It's going to be hot again

It cooled off quite a bit during the week, but it has decided to get hot again just in time for me to have to go outside and dig holes in the ground and put in the trampoline retaining wall.

It's like the weather is just trying to be mean to me.

On a lighter note, The Mrs. let FreddyC bite the next-door-neighbor's dog today. I tried to prevent it by putting him inside when they, their dog, and their mother's dog were out behind our yard chasing their daughter's puppy (who had escaped). But The Mrs. immediately let him out again with the promise that she'd watch him. But, instead, she let him jump over the fence, and he promptly bit the next-door-neighbor's dog on the ear. I had to grab him and put him back inside where he should have been in the first damn place. It was a 100% preventable incident.

It's cooler out today

But I still miss my super-secret blog.

So Maybe I'm an Idiot

Not positive about it, though.

Saturday was a very hot day. It got slightly over 100, according to our thermometer. Well, round abouts 5:00, I started to notice that it was getting noticeably warmer inside than it had been all day. This despite the air conditioner running non-stop. I thought this odd. I investigated, as that's what men do.

I put my hand in front of a few registers, and the air coming out was not noticeably cooler than the general ambient temperature of the room. So I went outside and put my hand in the airflow coming off the compressor. Normally, this is quite hot, but like the registers inside, it did not appear to be any warmer than the outside air.

Hmm.

I checked the hoses running in and out of the compressor. The big cold line was quite cold, but the small hot return line was not hot at all.

I saw this as a bad sign. The AC is producing cold, but the cold is not absorbing the heat of the house.

I had memories of the conversation I had with the previous owner of the house a couple days after we had moved in and the shower had begun leaking through the dining room ceiling (leading to the $12k shower fiasco), and how she had mentioned kind of offhand how she used the same company to repair the shower that she used to repair the HVAC and how the AC had cost them $3k in repairs just months earlier. And I figured if that company fixed AC's as well as they fixed showers, I was completely e-f-f-e-d, f'd.

But I continued to investigate, as that's what men do.

The lack of heat exchange led me to suspect a problem with perhaps either the heat exchanger or the airflow. The airflow being easier to check, I pulled out the filter, and it was a very dirty mess. So I charged out to Ace to buy a replacement. Of course, Ace was closed.

When I got back home, I decided to see if I could check the heat exchanger. I opened up the furnace and looked up. I could not see the heat exchanger. I could see where it was supposed to be, but I could not see it. All I could see was a big block of ice.

Uh oh.

I thought for a bit what could cause a heat exchanger to ice over. Our heat wave was only 2 days old, and we had had one for two weeks last year without an icing problem.

Oh, sh!t. I forgot to turn off the humidifier in the spring. I've never owned a humidifier before. But there it was, trying to maintain 40% relative humidity inside the furnace. I turned it off.

We've now made it about 52 hours without icing.

It rained today

I wasn't really expecting it. The past few days were quite beautiful, sunny, and warm, and then today as if out of nowhere, it rains. I was forced to make a decision - do I take the army duffel bag filled with bungee cords and ratchet tie downs that is in the pickup bed out of the bed and put it in the back seat so it stays dry, or do I leave it in the bed?

Which do you think I did?

Did I put the duffel bag in the back seat or leave it in the rain?
	Back seat.
	Rain.
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I'll tell you, it was a tough decision. But not really.

HannahC, darling that she is, checked the weather report in the paper last night for Sunday. She's following it closely to decide if she's taking me bowling or to miniature golf for Fathers' Day. I'm hoping for sun, cuz my thumb joint has gotten larger, and my thumb no longer fits in my good bowling ball. I need to get it drilled out a bit, but I haven't gotten around to it. Plus, the miniature golf place also has go carts.

The weather report called for scattered thunderstorms. Hmmm...

The Temperature of the Beast