The PA rodent says Spring is right around the corner. Now, if only he said which corner.

Now if it were Martinsville that would be awesome since even corner 4 is just over half a mile. Road America on the other hand...

Weee, another 3-6 inches of snow starting at midnight and the oldest has SAT tests tomorrow. Might just have gram take her up the night before and stay overnight to avoid the weather.

Not for me. It is too cold to stay in boxers and socks. I am way too cheap to heat the house up to be comfortable temp to be without jeans. Especially in my office. Someday I will have to choke up the money to pay a pro to fix the poor ventilation in my office. It is in the corner of the house, with a large window on the north side of the house. and the wall behind my desk is the east side of the house. The HIVAC vent is in the ceiling, and it is just not big enough and there is no return in the room. The guest bedroom is a little biger, and has a return of it's own. The master bedroom has two HIVAC vents in the ceiling and a nice big return. Heck even the closet in the master bedroom has a vent and a return.

I think this room needs a return, and a larger supply line on the HIVAC to have good heat and air. It is cold in the winter, and hot in the summer. It was never much of a issue until I started staying in here all day.

Best wishes for your daughters SATs, Brent!

My wife just fried up a whole package of bacon (she stores & reheats pieces as required) and I can’t even smell it. My sinuses are FUBAR.

its that CA air that is doing it.

Yeah, when Jim said he would send a cold with tissues I thought he meant like the "cold and flu" type, not the weather type!

Of course. The rest of the country all knows it is California's fault. Whatever the issue, it is their fault.

I have both and I’m willing to share. :)

You are generous to a fault Jim!

Yes, I have a generous number of faults. At least I’ve been told that.

The front bedroom that is my office is the only room with western exposure. When my brother lived here, because of his MS it got much over 70° it would paralyze him so he couldn't move. Discovered the room stays 5° warmer than the rest of the house, even in winter. Tried everything to get that room cooler. Better attic insulation, changing the ducts, returns, vent boosters. Finally just put a window A/C in. It was weird it turning on with ice and snow outside.

Since he has passed the tree in the middle of the front yard and crepe myrtles in front of that room have grown to shade that room better. Now it stays about the same temps as the rest of the house. Amazing how much afternoon and evening sun heats a room.

Loaned the window unit to my next door neighbor when his central A/C died. Have not gotten it back. Asked him about it. He said it was buried in stuff in his garage. I would have to find a place in mine to put it. So, we decided his garage is a better place to store it than mine!

Nice of him to store it for you!

Now way I would put in a window unit in the front of the house. I have a window unit in my garage, but no one can see it but the neighbors when they look over the 8 foot fence.

The HIVAC unit we have is original to the house and about 25 years old. I suspect it will need to be replaced fairly soon. That likely means changing to the new refrigerant, so all new AC HIVAC unit, and outside compressor. I will be sure to get another line and a bigger line to this room. And figure out a return line. Little doubt the pressure in here goes up if the only air outlet is the door.

All it will take is a large hunk of money.

Just so long as he doesn’t start charging you storage fees.

Maybe your mean ol’ boss will give you a raise, or at least a bonus.

We have a geothermal heat pump. Paid for itself after 7 years, including the extra we had to pay for the new duct work. Don't intend to replace it anytime soon.

In the summer it is cheaper than running the attic fan, though sometimes it is nice to just have the windows open.

That cheap bastage, not likely.

Maybe if we get a couple of the contracts we are really hoping to get. Most likely the cheapskate would just dump the money into the airplane payments and try to get it paid off.

Last week's airplane repairs were expensive enough. At least we now know the displays are indeed identical. We had to have one screen replaced. They ended up moving the one on the left that is the main display over to the right, and the new screen went in front of the pilot. That cost as much as a nice laptop. And all on top of replacing the flight computer. Airplanes for sure make Porsche ownership seem cheap.

We never open our windows except to clean them in the spring. We both have allergies, and it just is not worth it to fill the house with pollen. There are just few days when the temps outside are nice enough to warrant it. That and we have a ton of windows, and it would take a while. The electric bill is average over 12 months, so it is the same amount each month. And not that much. I do the same thing with the gas bill. Same thing month to month.

It is almost annoying to get an email from the utility company that says my bill is due, and then my bank saying a bill is due. The next day the bank (actually a credit union) pays it automatically, then the utility company says they got paid. All automatic, but 4 emails.

I have rules on my emails. They mark the auto-pay reminders are read and trash them. They mark the paid notices and file them in their respective folders not that I have ever actually needed them.

Neighbor isn't keeping the A/C to charge me stowage, Keeping because would be a hassle to dig out. Agreement is if he wants the space or I need it, will help him dig it out.

The only reason I put a window unit on the front of my house was by brother's ability to move. I had already exhausted the other options including getting a new central HVAC system. Just way too expensive to run another feed duct under the slab. Also tested more return by closing off the other two rooms that return feeds and it made no difference. HVAC guy said another feed would be the only solution that would work. And because of the slab would have to go thru the attic and put an extra fan or two in to make sure it actually moved any air. Instead he changed the way the ducting is fed in the plenum and it helped. Inside the plenum looks like some sort of weird organ pipes.

Oh boy. The other system admin thought it would be a great idea to put an external uptime bot on our systems. I've gotten about 100 emails in the past ten minutes. The power has gone down all around campus. The battery backup systems for the network and servers only seems to have lasted 10 minutes in several buildings.

Of course, since I am off-site i get ALL the notifications!

Looks like time to make a folder and another rule.