Air Con!

Not to be confused with Con Air, the fine Nick Cage and John Cusack film. I have been trying to save my piastas up so I could buy an air conditioner and I finally did a few weeks ago. It has been in transit for an age and a day, but finally arrived Friday night. We have a bunch of handy people around here and preferring to be busy while they get their drunk on, they took to installing it for me today. 5 plus hours and countless beers later and plenty of questioning of their skills by your truly later, it is pumping out the coolness. Now I just have to hope that they installed it properly. It's a fairly rough install, it's a split unit so the motor sits outside and the the fan inside with some copper piping that has to run in or out--depends on your perspective--to the motorbox outside. A clean install would mean that neither the pipes nor the electrical would be meandering along walls as much as they are now. Nor would a green garden hose be poking out of the wall as drainage. Maybe I can get them to go back and imrpove on a few things. The windows still have to be sealed up any way you cut it, so it's not outside of the realm of possibility that I can get them to drill a small hole in the wall to thread the power cable through instead of running it along an exterior wall for a half dozen feet before coming in through the window. At least it's cool in there now. Now if could just figure out why my eyes are itching everytime I go in there.