Today I am again reminded that I despise hot weather. Sure, it's fine while on vacation in my favorite spot on earth, St. George Island, Florida, where I am either in air conditioning, a pool, the northern Gulf of Mexico, or next to a cool adult beverage or three, but having to deal with it daily is a drag.
My lovely wife and I rode a fifteen-mile in-town bike route in the late morning/early afternoon today as the temperature began rising from the low 80's to the high 80's (eventually, I fear, it will reach the mid 90's). As the saying goes, it isn't the heat, it's the humidity. Well. I say it's the heat too!
Since many politicians, all eco-nuts and many sheeples believe in "Global Warming", that is, man's ability to have modified the earth's actual temperature by his use of devices that produce flouro-carbons, or, as some have stated, merely by exhaling, why can't they convince us to influence the climates at will. I am actually able to accomplish this feat of environmental influence. I have a thermostat connected to my furnace and air conditioner. And I use it! I just wish the eco-nuts, etc, would cease and desist their useless taxing and spending on climate change policies so my environmental influences don't cost so much!
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
I'M BA-ACK!
Just as Randy Quaid's character in "Independence Day" yelled as he flew into the belly of the alien ship "I'm ba-ack", so, I am.
My hiatus was self-imposed as a fluke of computer sharing caused a really good anti-Obama screed to be placed on someone else's blog. However, I felt a little different not spewing on-line, so, I've decided to end the hiatus.
What has prompted this entry is a task I completed today. Some may think it so simple that it is curious why anyone would want to blog about such a thing. But, for those who know me, this is a big deal.
The aged ceiling fan in our kitchen has been eating bulbs as of late. The metal grooves inside the porcelain bulb fixtures, over time, have corroded and are no longer able to have the bulbs make contact at their terminus and the act of turning the bulbs was causing them to break at the last twist. Ergo (nice old word, ain't it?), my wife and I (yes, it was a mutual decision) decided to see what the local home improvement megastore had to offer us as a solution. We walked through the ceiling fan area to check out some of the styles and sizes of fan units with lights. Boy, are there choices, from $50 up to $300. After acquiring nearly permanent cricks in our necks, we began wondering if there wasn't a way to get off on the cheap, thereby replacing only the light fixtures as opposed to the entire fan.
To our surprise and thankfulness, there were boxes of light-only replacements. We went back home to do some closer investigation and examination of our fan assembly (as termed in the industry). I actually loosened the lights from the bottom of the fan and inspected the wiring. I determined that I, yes I could actually remove the lights and successfully replace them on the two wires that connected the lights to the fan assembly. To answer your question, I did trip the circuit breaker before I even touched the fan with a screwdriver. Thus, we came to the conclusion that we could and the decision to replace those lights.
We went back to the megastore and without help from any "expert" found our desired type of lights, which included the bulbs, and home we went. Just as a precaution, however, we did purchase some 40 watt incandecent bulbs (yes the type that Big Brother has deemed to be illegal in the future) to place in the old lights in case I could not make the switch, which, as is the custom in our household, is the rule rather than the exception. The next morning, after church, I, yes I, made a successful replacement of the lights on our 40-year-old fan assembly. As a celebratory act I decided to stop at this success and not to tackle any other home improvement DYI's until absolutely necessary.
![]()
My hiatus was self-imposed as a fluke of computer sharing caused a really good anti-Obama screed to be placed on someone else's blog. However, I felt a little different not spewing on-line, so, I've decided to end the hiatus.
What has prompted this entry is a task I completed today. Some may think it so simple that it is curious why anyone would want to blog about such a thing. But, for those who know me, this is a big deal.
The aged ceiling fan in our kitchen has been eating bulbs as of late. The metal grooves inside the porcelain bulb fixtures, over time, have corroded and are no longer able to have the bulbs make contact at their terminus and the act of turning the bulbs was causing them to break at the last twist. Ergo (nice old word, ain't it?), my wife and I (yes, it was a mutual decision) decided to see what the local home improvement megastore had to offer us as a solution. We walked through the ceiling fan area to check out some of the styles and sizes of fan units with lights. Boy, are there choices, from $50 up to $300. After acquiring nearly permanent cricks in our necks, we began wondering if there wasn't a way to get off on the cheap, thereby replacing only the light fixtures as opposed to the entire fan.
To our surprise and thankfulness, there were boxes of light-only replacements. We went back home to do some closer investigation and examination of our fan assembly (as termed in the industry). I actually loosened the lights from the bottom of the fan and inspected the wiring. I determined that I, yes I could actually remove the lights and successfully replace them on the two wires that connected the lights to the fan assembly. To answer your question, I did trip the circuit breaker before I even touched the fan with a screwdriver. Thus, we came to the conclusion that we could and the decision to replace those lights.
We went back to the megastore and without help from any "expert" found our desired type of lights, which included the bulbs, and home we went. Just as a precaution, however, we did purchase some 40 watt incandecent bulbs (yes the type that Big Brother has deemed to be illegal in the future) to place in the old lights in case I could not make the switch, which, as is the custom in our household, is the rule rather than the exception. The next morning, after church, I, yes I, made a successful replacement of the lights on our 40-year-old fan assembly. As a celebratory act I decided to stop at this success and not to tackle any other home improvement DYI's until absolutely necessary.
Here's the proof!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)