"I'm on call and I can't sleep!"
"Pretty Ugly Teeth" "'Cause I'm Doug" Search phrases that people have used to get to my site. Really lousy night's sleep last night, I was awake every hour on the hour, checking the clock... but tonight will be different, we have AC again. And I've kinda formulated a cause for the thing going out... a coupla years ago, sometime in the winter, the fan stopped when the gas was going. This could've been for a number of reasons, but one of the causes could have been that the filter hadn't been changed for a while and it collapsed into the squirrel-cage fan. Someone would've had to pull it out and replace it, but I don't remember doing it. I think that I'm the only one who would've done it, but it might've been JD or Tyler or Matt or Andy. Anyway, I wouldn't have thought too much about collateral damage, nor did I worry too much about the water coming out of the unit last summer and this one. I never really thought too much about how furnaces and ACs work, I kinda thought that the water was just condensation and of no consequence. I was $1700 wrong, of course. I don't mind being wrong occasionally, but I really can't afford to be *that* wrong very often. Anyway, as I was prowling the basement, I found my guitar tuner, and I decided to replace the battery and try it out, the battery was at least five years old, if not older. So I took it out and hesitated before I threw it away... brought it to my lips, stuck my tongue out, and... WOWSA! That damn battery didn't need replacing, it was plumb full o' juice! I also found the four-port KVM switch that I thought that I'd lost, right in a special place where I now belatedly remember leaving it so that I wouldn't lose it. If it was a snake.... Heavy day at work. I have suddenly lost my enthusiasm for working where I'm working. I even called one of my co-workers stupid, but I did apologize, kinda. In that I'm sorry that I called him stupid, without really saying that he wasn't stupid. In fact, lots of little things are bothering me today, probably because I can't do anything about the big things that are bothering me. Well, I can, and I am, but still.... Well, I really need some good sleep, that's my main problem tonight. I can fix that, I can. And I will, in about ten minutes. O'yeah, tomorrow is JD's Birthday! You can drop him a happy wish at jd@nilknarf.net, he will be happy to hear from you!