Good thing: Finally got the old air conditioner installed in the window. Bad thing: It’s not quite powerful enough to cool the front room. Good thing: We installed some curtains to separate the front room from the dining room. Bad thing: Still not enough cooling power, or the curtains aren’t working well. Good: Bought a new air conditioner on July 20. Bad: New air conditioner is way too heavy to haul upstairs myself. Good: My friend John helped me haul it upstairs! yay! Bad: Haven’t been motivated to install it until this weekend. Good: Motivated. Saturday. Bad: AC unit has a corner caved in. Outside of case looks terrible. Good: Who cares about cosmetic damage? I sure don’t. Bend it back out. Bad: Whoah, there’s some copper pipes right inside there that look bent up too. Good: Well I should probably test this thing before I rip the old one out of the window. Bad: No cool air, fan just moves around air that’s the same temperature as the room. Good: This thing comes apart for easy installation, maybe I should take the outside case off Bad: Oh look, this copper pipe is bent all to hell in three places. Good: Well I guess I should give it one more try, I wonder if I could straighten this pipe here Bad: No good, the pump part heats up pretty good but doesn’t deliver heated liquid to the radiator. Bad: OK looks like I’m going to have to take it back. Where the hell is the receipt? Good: OK found the receipt. Bad: Now how am I going to get it back down the stairs? Good: Well I have been putting off buying a hand truck, might as well do that now. Bad: Now I need to figure out how to tie this box to the hand truck because it’s so huge
Well, that was a burst of productivity with almost nothing to show for it. Damn Frys and their broken equipment. I’ll keep you posted.