Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I spent the better part of my childhood doing those things and when we bought our current house it had a wood stove. I don't think we were fully moved in before I had it ripped out and sent for scrap!

Took our free standing wood burner out for a gas unit. Another great decision.

[humfrz]

UPDATE TIME!

Well, we FINALLY have running hot water again -

mrs humfrz is all happy -

I've been feeling badly about how I have depicted her during this lack of running hot water crisis.

She hit the bathroom a couple of hours ago and hasn't come out since. So, I stuck my head into the bathroom, snapped a picture and ask her how much longer she was going to be in there.

She didn't respond -


humfrz

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by humfrz

...
mrs humfrz is all happy -

..

It's amazing how just being happy and smiling can take years... even decades... off a person!

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

UPDATE TIME!

Well, we FINALLY have running hot water again -

mrs humfrz is all happy -

I've been feeling badly about how I have depicted her during this lack of running hot water crisis.

She hit the bathroom a couple of hours ago and hasn't come out since. So, I stuck my head into the bathroom, snapped a picture and ask her how much longer she was going to be in there.

She didn't respond -


humfrz

Thank God!

That is exactly how I pictured her.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by cjd

Finally have a new furnace... which is good, because tomorrow is supposed to be low single digits into the negatives (F) overnight. Already seems to be working better than the old one since our Nest says 2hrs for the remaining 2 degrees, but it's already up 10 in under an hour...



Down side is, because the engineer was inattentive and presumptive, we thought the a/c condenser was 15 and reasonably due for replacement. Turns out, it was the 10 year old condenser... but the new one should be a lot more efficient, and too late now, so... in it goes. Tomorrow. That's right, they'll be installing our air conditioning when it is no warmer than 4 degrees out there. At least mostly out of the wind, I hope!

Yaaaaaaaaa!

Is that a heat pump system?

Do you have an electric or gas backup to the system if it is a heat pump?


humfrz

[cjd]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

You have had no heat and we have been listening to Hum's wife (by proxy) complain abut no hot water?

It's only the igniter circuit that's dead, so I've been (NEVER DO THIS AT HOME KIDS!) manually lighting it...


It never got below like 56 before I woke up, and then it took long enough to get back up to 68 that it'd be daytime and I could keep a closer eye on things. I did have to work from home though (thankfully, I can).

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Thank God!

That is exactly how I pictured her.

You are so kind.

Actually, back in the day, naaaaa - she had red hair then -


humfrz

[cjd]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Yaaaaaaaaa!

Is that a heat pump system?

Do you have an electric or gas backup to the system if it is a heat pump?

humfrz

Plain old gas. It's all good, we have ways to stay warm. OK... I have ways, my wife doesn't like them (good sleeping bags are claustrophobic) and our nearly 21 year old cat doesn't have a sleeping bag at all (she'd just burrow though). But that assumes we don't get up and moving about. And it's not no heat entirely, just a royal pain with no official replacements so a repair of a 15 year old furnace was half as much as a replacement... we went to variable speed though, so should see some efficiency improvement also. I'd guess the a/c was nearly dead despite being 'younger' than we thought - it made a horrid racket while running, and it wasn't crap on the fan (I clean them every spring).


Glad you have your hot water back. In some ways, that's a lot more frustrating (even though less potentially bad...)

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

UPDATE TIME!

Well, we FINALLY have running hot water again -

mrs humfrz is all happy -

I've been feeling badly about how I have depicted her during this lack of running hot water crisis.

She hit the bathroom a couple of hours ago and hasn't come out since. So, I stuck my head into the bathroom, snapped a picture and ask her how much longer she was going to be in there.

She didn't respond -

humfrz

Her circuits got wet! Put her in a big bag of rice.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Her circuits got wet! Put her in a big bag of rice.

Does it count if he just puts a big wing on his car so he can see where the tail is when backing up?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Her circuits got wet! Put her in a big bag of rice.

Oh, OK - be right back.

Sweet Pea, Tcoat says it's for you to get out of the hot water - we have to cook the rice in it.




humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I spent the better part of my childhood doing those things and when we bought our current house it had a wood stove. I don't think we were fully moved in before I had it ripped out and sent for scrap!

Interesting. Similar story. The last two years we lived in CT, we heated our house with wood (about 10 cords a winter).

When we moved to Missouri, our house had a huge functional pot bellied stove in the master bedroom. My wife (now ex) said - we have a two zone heat pump system in this house - don't you even think about lighting that thing.





humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by cjd

Does it count if he just puts a big wing on his car so he can see where the tail is when backing up?

You just may be onto something there -


humfrz

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well, I'm sure that you will have a few stories to tell - after a few beers at a family reunion -

Now, it's quite easy to have grandkids without having kids. The present mrs humfrz had a daughter before we were married. Now that daughter (our daughter) has three daughters (our granddaughters).

How did that happen? Well, she and I got all drunked up on a Friday night and we flew to Las Vegas and got hitched the next day. Yep, 33 years ago, last week.

See, how easy that can happen -


humfrz

So moral of the story is... get drunk then fly to Vegas? Tomorrow is Friday.