Hot! Hot! Hot!

The AC appears to be broken. It's been running all day set for 77 degree, and the temperature in here jumped 2 degrees to 86 while we were watching TV. Fudge!

We're heading into the hottest part of the summer now that June has arrived and it's gonna be topping 100 soon.

Update: Next day - We shut off the AC for 24 hours, turned on the fans, and opened the windows. Then we tried again. This time, the AC actually cooled the house. The Service Technician we were going to have come check out the problem said it was probably frozen and needed time to defrost. Whee!!

Bowling

First night of an 11 week league. I was put on the "We aren't cool enough to have a team already" team so everyone I met tonight was new. There was a woman who looked too young to have 20 year old children but did, a woman with dyed yellow hair who looked too young to have four pre-teen kids (she's only 22), and a man with dyed yellow hair who seemed to be connected with the other yellow haired woman but was not her husband. They all seemed nice and to have reasonable bowling averages. I'm right in the middle of the pack, which is nice. I doubt we'll win any prize money, but I'm not doing it for the prize money. I enjoy bowling and enjoy competing. The competition seems to help me to bowl better.

Scores tonight: 149, 140, 114. Average: 134

It's a good start for the summer.

House stuff

Replaced our kitchen faucet today. Let me just say, plumbing sucks! Crawling underneath the sink in the dark, avoiding the rust falling from the old faucet, grunting and groaning while you try to be manly and unscrew the old faucet nuts, and failing miserably is just not fun. Eventually, with liberal use of WD-40 and a hammer, the old faucet was detached from the sink.

It took us 3 hours, which I guess is reasonable although it felt like it was taking forever. We also took one extra trip to the hardware store to pick up Plumber's Putty and made a side trip to get snow cones (without the cones). I got cherry. J. got grape. Fairly yummy, even though I'm not a big snow cone fan. It's just ice. I don't really get the appeal.

When we were all done, and everything was connected and tight, we turned on the water. No leaking. So far, so good. Then I turned on the cold water. No leaking. Still good. Then I turned on the hot water. No leaking. Waited for it get hot, which took a while. But so far, so good. Then I tried the hose attachment. And still, no leaking. We had done it! The water pressure is 10x the old faucet, it looks nicer, and the handles work better. A job well done by both of us. Sometimes I think we might actually get the hang of this owning a house shit.