Last night, earlier than I usually think about going to bed, I decided I was tired, and it was time to sleep, and THEN I remembered my post. I looked at the time. I still had a couple of hours I could write it, or I could just get up in the morning and do it.
So, I took a moment to debate the issue. If I did it last
night, I’d have a couple of hours to write and set up my post, but if I didn’t
get that all completed, I’d have time this morning to finish. If I waited until
morning, I’d only have a couple of hours to get it all done. Well, a couple of
hours is plenty of time, if I have an idea of what I’m going to write about.
This brought up the next issue of what would I write about.
Well. Umm. Let’s see. Umm.
I then realized I needed sleep because my brain was not
functioning, probably because I was hot. If you know me at all, you know I don’t
function well when I’m hot. I’ve been known to throw up if I can’t cool down
fast enough.
Jerry also was not pleased with the indoor temps. Most of us
assumed it was because Melinda and I had taken the time to cook dinner
yesterday which involved having something on the stove most of the day and the
oven on for about half an hour. Jerry was insisting we could not do this in the
heat. I was wondering how he expected to eat if we didn’t cook.
But then, because the temperature didn’t come down after we
turned everything off, he went and checked the AC. It wasn’t even on.
Why?
That has not been ascertained for sure, but Jerry assumed it
had overheated trying to keep the house cool yesterday. When it still wasn’t functioning
this morning, he insisted it would take a small fortune to get it working
again.
If you know Jerry at all, you know he is a supreme pessimist.
Whenever something doesn’t work as it is supposed to, he insists it is never simple,
easy, or inexpensive to fix. Ever. He always goes for the most extreme problem
which would be the hardest or most expensive to fix.
Now there is one thing I’ve learned about things and how
they function. Most of the time when something is not working, the fix is
something easy, supremely simple, and most importantly, not expensive if it
even costs any money at all.
This realization came to me when I was in my twenties and on
a date with a young man whose car stopped functioning while we were trying to
get to where we were going. He did just as Jerry would have and panicked about the
extreme expense of fixing the major issue, he thought it was. (This was close to
40 years ago so don’t ask me what he was thinking the issue was.)
Well, I couldn’t even drive back then so I knew next to
nothing about cars but when he opened his hood, I could see a part of it from
where I was sitting in the front seat. I looked at the big, round black things front
and center and flashed back to my mom once having some sort of issue with a car
and the answer had been in that big round black thing. I somehow knew that was
the problem. (Yes, I know it’s the air filter now.)
I pointed it out to my date, but he insisted that could not
be causing the problem. So, he decided he had to get to a shop. It took some
time to limp into the nearest one because his car would not go over 30 mph.
Now my guess was a simple clogged air filter.
Anyway, my date finally gets to a mechanic, and the very
first thing the competent mechanic checks is the air filter. One unnecessary
mechanic bill and an inexpensive air filter later we are back on the road and
able to complete our date.
So, what has this got to do with our AC?
Someway, somehow the AC had been turned off. Simply flip the
switch back to on and it’s working fine again. Thankfully.
Smile. Make the day a brighter day.
