Seriously?!

Firstly, I apologize for posting this a bit late.  Yesterday was a mess! It's times like this I ask myself why I can't have normal days off like everyone else.  Something has to be normal for once....right?

Yesterday started off like any other day, no big deal.  There was nothing crazy going on with the dogs, I watered the flowers, and even tossed out some pecan's for the squirrel.  I called the land lord (guy who I'm leasing my house from) to come fix the air conditioner.  It's been about 84°f (28°c) inside lately, and it's getting annoying.  He said he'd send someone around 4pm to fix it.

Jamie woke up late as per her usual.  She was almost late for her psych. appointment.  She needed a few errands ran.  Adya went with me to drop her off at the appt. so we could go to the craft store while we waited on her.  We found the coolest Halloween ice cube trays! Skull & Bones ice cubes! It actually works pretty well. 

We picked up Jamie from the psych, and took her down town to the SRS office so she could get her food stamps.  I had to run home and meet the AC repair technician.  He checked the house out, and we found out some things about the land lord that aren't so savory.  I'll just say he does everything as cost effectively as he can; ie not fixing the roof til water is running down the walls, not repairing the broken chimney, replacing the AC units etc. 

Anyway, the AC tech stated that the unit is over 30 years old and has a refrigerant leak.  Not only that, but the HVAC unit was installed improperly.  He stated he'd be surprised if the AC has even worked at all this year,"From what I can guess looking at your system; you've been pulling cool air from the basement.  Yeah, the AC unit has been running, but it has almost no refrigerant...You're just wasting power."

The tech called the LL to see what he wanted to do, which was to just put more refrigerant in the unit, and see if that fixes it.  The tech told him he thought that would blow the unit, but it was his choice.  Hopefully, that fixes the issue, and the unit doesn't blow.  If that's the case it could be a week before we get a new unit.  The tech also stated that the unit was too small for the house.  The house needs at least a 3 ton unit, but a 4 would be better.  The old unit is a 2 ton.  Knowing at least a little bit about housing construction, and talking with him. It's a miracle the current unit has lasted 30 years! 

He left and told us that we needed to leave the air off until he came back to fix it, or else it could blow the unit.  He was surprised it hadn't yet.  I left the unit off til about 11pm last night when it reached an apex of  97°f ( 36°c) in the house! Yes, we had all the windows open and the fans going.  It was cooler outside than inside the house, but we couldn't get the air really going even with the centeral air fan going.  I gave up at 11pm and turned the AC on.  That was crazy!

I'll have to turn it off at 3pm today to keep it from freezing up again.  I'm not looking forward to today.  The weather forcast calls for a max temp of 103°f (39°c).  Hopefully, the day will prove to be cooler.