Rant: Dammit, this isn't even my boat, it's a customer's boat. I just had my tree guy here less than two weeks ago, trimming different trees because a limb almost fell on this same boat.
RANT followed by a RAVE: In early June, we had a quick spike of 100+ degree days and the AC stopped working. Made an appointment for some HVAC people to come out and by the time they were able to make it out a few days later, the temps cooled back into the 90s and the AC started working again. The HVAC people said that's odd and it needs about $4800 in repairs to fix the problem when, not if, it happens again. July was a very mild month and the AC hummed right along until this weekend. Back to back to back of 103* and the AC stopped working again. Here's the RAVE: Punched the symptoms into chatgpt, went back and forth with a few tests and it narrowed it down to the fan capacitor. $10.27 from Amazon, 6-7 minutes of work and we have working AC. RAVE: Hit every metric for July and got all the top tier bonuses. Nice little ~30% bump in pay for the month. Now I'm drinking some champagne and freezing my ass off.
Capacitor issues seems to be a fairly common feature with HVAC units. Multiple houses in our neighborhood had theirs fail so we pre-emptively bought a capacitor last year. Sure enough, we needed to replace ours about a month ago for similar reasons.
Yep. It's probably 90% of the HVAC failures out there. It can be a bit sketchy replacing the cap if you don't know what you're doing and don't discharge it properly, but if you can follow simple instructions (readily available all over YouTube), you can do it yourself in about 15 minutes. I personally learned about it when I watched a repair guy replace it and then hand me the bill. It was crazy expensive. Since then I have a couple of them sitting on the shelf in the shop just waiting to be replaced. I've already done it twice.
Rant/Rave: Turns out a 18x24 ft shed is a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. Guess I'll build out a workshop?
RAVE: Old house sale finally closed. First deal fell through and 2nd buyers were being complete cocksuckers about every little thing. For example, they asked for $2000 towards closing costs because they deemed the walkway wasn't safe. There was one section that was higher than the next creating a potential tripping hazard. I measured it and it was just over 1/4" but not even 5/16". Assholes.
Rave: My recliner has been kind of uncomfortable lately, the back of it going back further than it should so when you want to sit in it unreclined, you're still leaning back. It's been driving me nuts for a couple of weeks now. For some reason, last night while my parents were here was when I finally got curious enough to look into it further. Long story short ( at least this part of it ) the pins which hold the back of the chair in place are worn out on both sides. I happened to remember we bought a protection plan when we got it back in 2020, but kind of figured the warranty was up. Still, we looked and saw we bought it on July 30, 2020. HOWEVER the protection plan says "5 years from date of DELIVERY." So when was it delivered? It was around 7:30 when I called Raymour & Flanigan who were very helpful and looked it up. The chair was delivered on August 22, 2020. Yesterday was August 21, 2025. The lady transferred me to the number for the protection plan claims. That lady, also very helpful, said it was covered and she was opening a claim. "Are you shitting me?!? I figured you guys would tell me 'Nice try.'" She laughed. "You've got about four hours left on this plan. I'd buy a lottery ticket if I were you." "I don't know, I think I just used up my luck." As instructed, I immediately sent pics and description of the problem to the people who would actually do the repair, still kinda shocked at this stroke of luck. Then I bought some Powerball tickets.
For most of you this probably isn’t that impressive. Rave: I ran for an entire mile without stopping, walking or jogging. Im 41. I’ve never been able to do this. My current goal is to finish a 5k in under 40 minutes. Rave: I did this because I’ve lost 85 pounds since Thanksgiving. I had a health scare last year and decided I wanted to see my kids live beyond high school. So I stopped drinking. And started exercising every day. And tracking every calorie I ate. My weight loss doctor told me I’m the most successful patient they have that isn’t on a GLP-1 or having surgery. Not drinking isn’t nearly as bad as I imagined. Everything is cheaper. And if I really want to catch a buzz I pop a THC gummy and go about my day. Rant: Every few months since this started I’ve had to buy new clothes because the old ones made me look like a clown. Thanks for listening to my nonsense.
Rant: I put a gallon of sweet tea in the fridge all dumb and basically booby trapped it for my husband. Tea fucking everywhere. Under the fridge, inside the fridge, on the cabinets, pool of it on the floor. Rave: once the shock wore off he helped me mop it up with towels and move the fridge so I could steam mop the shit out of the entire kitchen. Took 3 mop covers to clean all the sticky up. I don't think we have moved the fridge out and cleaned under it since we bought the house 7 years ago. I hate that this happened at 930pm but every inch of my kitchen floor is sparkling now, so all's well that ends well.
Rant: just got home from the ER. They think it's strep. I woke up from a dead sleep with stabbing pain in my neck/lymph node. Stabbing pain while swallowing so I've just been spitting out foamy spit the last hour. Had to take 4 pills, cried like a baby. Hope the meds do something soon, this is utterly miserable.