This is a double event with matching subject lines.

So the AC at work has been set to 35 Kelvin or something. I seriously considered bringing my winter coat into work today. it wouldn’t have really helped because it does nothing for the numb fingers or the ears/nose freezing off problem. I’m exaggerating but not as much as you think. Yesterday I had to take a walk outside every 30 minutes to an hour to warm up my fingers and allow me to think straight again.

In related news my AC didn’t turn on this season. I tried various things to try and figure out what was going on but no luck. Called a guy in, he took one look at it and said that I was leaking coolant and I was going to have to get a new unit. He could recharge it, but it was just going to leak out again, maybe in a couple of days, maybe a couple of months, but it would just need recharging again. Since this would have been the second time I’d run out of coolant his argument was persuasive.

So yesterday 3 guys came over and ripped out my central air and put a new one in its place. It’s interesting that they don’t actually replace the indoor unit so much as rip out the coils of the existing housing a replace them with new ones which they rip out of a different housing.

The whole thing only took a couple of hours but took place right in the middle of the day so I took it off. In case your wondering, it costs $3200 to get a new central air installed in my townhouse, so if you see me buy me a beer.

Tangentially related (and mentioned because it doesn’t deserve a mention of its own) is the fact that my dryer fried its terminal block and cord. Would have fixed it myself, but 220v and why did it do that? Answer was that someone tried to repair it in the past and it arced. 220v arcing melts wires (and is potentially fatal, don’t muck with 220v).

So if you’re keeping track at home in the last two months I’ve had a hot water heater rupture ruining my basement carpet, central air needed to be replaced, dryer broken and HTPC died. In MMO lingo this would be *burst* damage. Good news is that everything except the HTPC and carpet have been fixed. Got measurements for the carpet on Tuesday. So I could likely start that process soon, but I’m doing a bit of a construction project in the basement and was hoping ot hold out until it is done before traipsing plaster all over the new carpet. I’ll tell you about construction later.