In climates that have dry summers, air conditioning is not needed. Instead, you can use an evaporative cooler. Most people like these better because they are not only much cheaper to run but instead of cooling the same air, they circulate fresh air throughout the place. We have one of these things. Only something was wrong with the hose. The pads are brand new because Jesse changed them just last year. And the pump, too. Tom said it would be a quick fix to fix whatever was wrong with the hose.

The other day I warned him to get up on the roof and get it fixed and ready to go because the days were warming up.

He said, “Relax, there’s no hurry.”

I told him not to put it off till the last minute, but sure enough, the heat woke me up 4 hours into my sleep yesterday. When I crashed at 11am it was 71º in the bedroom with the window open and the fan running. By 4:30 it was 85º. That’s my definite limit. So I stormed out of the bedroom letting him have it and giving him the “I told you so” treatment and reminded him that “I tried to tell him of this shit,” before demanding he get his ass up on the roof to fix the damn thing. And all the while Jesse just had to be doing his engine-gunning thing and pissing me off even more.

So we pulled the bag down we had taped over the cooler vent to keep the heat from seeping up through the edges, put it on ‘fan’ for starters, then got slammed with a blast of dust. They do get dusty since air can get into them when they haven’t been used for 4-5 months. I had quite a dusting and vacuuming job ahead of me.

So Tom flew up onto the roof and took care of things while I prepared to drug myself up with Benadryl and then go back to sleep.

I’m just sick of freezing my ass off at night and sweating in the daytime! I don’t mind the heat, I just wish it would stay that way and not get so cold at night.

Got a really nice card from Eileen yesterday. It’s so nice of her to think of me the way she does. It said: In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you go with.

My keyboard acted up when I first got up but was fine later on after I got done eating and cleaning. I guess the batteries are low, but firing up the PC charged them. We still need to get a new supply of batteries. And restock our spider arsenal.

We’ll be heading out to Walmart in about an hour and spending a fortune. There are lots of things we need and a few things we just want. Since work has been amazingly good and we’ve been making almost enough to practically live on, we’re going to stock up while we can. Good things have a way of coming to an end, but I hope that’s not the case with work!