kbkchooch
"retired" conductor
Good evening gang
Been absent of late, life has been trying.
Last Friday afternoon, (7/22) I got off of work early anticipating a good weekend. I get home a little after 1 and was informed that the cat has not moved in 12 hours, and wont move to stand up if prodded, and he's just panting. Oh, and the central air is not cooling. Went down to check on the cat, not looking good, wife takes him to the vet while I try to fix the a/c. No joy there.
Called the company that installed it 6-7 years ago, they are more than happy to set up a service call, on August the 8th. I set it up then called a buddy of mine who owns an HVAC business outside of D.C. He can help, but it's way out of his area and he refers a local guy. I call him and he says they will be out tomorrow. (7/23) Great!
Then I go and put a window unit from the garage into our bedroom window. 1 small victory. Finally I hook up the trailer which is loaded with limbs and debris left over from the recent storms, to take to the dump Saturday. Drat, lights on the trailer aren't working!
Vet calls, cat needs IV fluids and 24 hr monitoring , testing reveals possible pancreatitis. They do not offer overnight care. Called Baltimore Pet hospital, full. Frederick MD, full, North Baltimore falls Road, full. Shrewsberry Pa, says bring him right up! So I disconnect the trailer, grab the wife and the cat and head north. Over an hour later we get there and stay for the next 3+hours waiting for them to run more tests and x-rays and they tell us he's staying put and is stable. We get home around 11 p.m. and I know my weekend is shot.
Saturday dawns and around 10 a.m. the HVAC guy calls and says he's on the way. He arrives 30 minutes later and gets to work. meanwhile its already 90 outside, I say no to the trailer rewire/repair. After an hour or so he gets the a/c running, only to have it quit 20 minutes later. More diag, more effort, another burnt fuse but no additional amp load. He finally traces it to a poor internal connection in the outside fused cut out switch. The one place that only HVAC guys disconnect before they service it. Where the connection was bad was red hot! OK, more repairs there and this time it's fixed.
Called the vet, cat seems to be improving but he also has had no BMs in 24 hrs, plus he's not eating. They want to give the cat an enema. I say better you than me. I'll call back in the morning.
I did get the yard cut Saturday while the wife enjoyed the neighbors pool. We are cat sitting for them while they are in Key West for the week. So I am still scooping a litter box daily, even if may cat is in another state! Meanwhile the new Husky has been finding every weak spot in the fence and probing it. I may look into electrifying the fence. It kept the cows in at home.
Sunday afternoon the vet called and said we can come take our cat home, he is feeling better and eating. So we trek north again to retrieve our little bundle of fur and med to administer for the next week.
Weekends total expenditure. AC repair $475.00 1st vet $375.00 2nd vet/hospital, $1,415.78 or $2,265.78
I thought I might get some rest during the work week, but Monday and Tuesday my post-menopausal co-worker must have been having flashbacks and after a screaming match we were both sent to our corners. I honestly was so pissed I borrowed a cig from a co-worker and smoked it clean to the butt. 1st one I had in 11 years.
Yesterday was a normal day, but the rest of the week caught up to me, I had to sleep.
TO cap it all off, today I find out that a friend I have known since I was 15, a former next door neighbor ,high school classmate, for years we had people thinking he was my younger brother, was killed in a wreck caused by an impaired driver, so now I have memorial services this weekend and a funeral to attend this coming week.
I just wanna play with my trains, but it's not allowed.
Been absent of late, life has been trying.
Last Friday afternoon, (7/22) I got off of work early anticipating a good weekend. I get home a little after 1 and was informed that the cat has not moved in 12 hours, and wont move to stand up if prodded, and he's just panting. Oh, and the central air is not cooling. Went down to check on the cat, not looking good, wife takes him to the vet while I try to fix the a/c. No joy there.
Called the company that installed it 6-7 years ago, they are more than happy to set up a service call, on August the 8th. I set it up then called a buddy of mine who owns an HVAC business outside of D.C. He can help, but it's way out of his area and he refers a local guy. I call him and he says they will be out tomorrow. (7/23) Great!
Then I go and put a window unit from the garage into our bedroom window. 1 small victory. Finally I hook up the trailer which is loaded with limbs and debris left over from the recent storms, to take to the dump Saturday. Drat, lights on the trailer aren't working!
Vet calls, cat needs IV fluids and 24 hr monitoring , testing reveals possible pancreatitis. They do not offer overnight care. Called Baltimore Pet hospital, full. Frederick MD, full, North Baltimore falls Road, full. Shrewsberry Pa, says bring him right up! So I disconnect the trailer, grab the wife and the cat and head north. Over an hour later we get there and stay for the next 3+hours waiting for them to run more tests and x-rays and they tell us he's staying put and is stable. We get home around 11 p.m. and I know my weekend is shot.
Saturday dawns and around 10 a.m. the HVAC guy calls and says he's on the way. He arrives 30 minutes later and gets to work. meanwhile its already 90 outside, I say no to the trailer rewire/repair. After an hour or so he gets the a/c running, only to have it quit 20 minutes later. More diag, more effort, another burnt fuse but no additional amp load. He finally traces it to a poor internal connection in the outside fused cut out switch. The one place that only HVAC guys disconnect before they service it. Where the connection was bad was red hot! OK, more repairs there and this time it's fixed.
Called the vet, cat seems to be improving but he also has had no BMs in 24 hrs, plus he's not eating. They want to give the cat an enema. I say better you than me. I'll call back in the morning.
I did get the yard cut Saturday while the wife enjoyed the neighbors pool. We are cat sitting for them while they are in Key West for the week. So I am still scooping a litter box daily, even if may cat is in another state! Meanwhile the new Husky has been finding every weak spot in the fence and probing it. I may look into electrifying the fence. It kept the cows in at home.
Sunday afternoon the vet called and said we can come take our cat home, he is feeling better and eating. So we trek north again to retrieve our little bundle of fur and med to administer for the next week.
Weekends total expenditure. AC repair $475.00 1st vet $375.00 2nd vet/hospital, $1,415.78 or $2,265.78
I thought I might get some rest during the work week, but Monday and Tuesday my post-menopausal co-worker must have been having flashbacks and after a screaming match we were both sent to our corners. I honestly was so pissed I borrowed a cig from a co-worker and smoked it clean to the butt. 1st one I had in 11 years.
Yesterday was a normal day, but the rest of the week caught up to me, I had to sleep.
TO cap it all off, today I find out that a friend I have known since I was 15, a former next door neighbor ,high school classmate, for years we had people thinking he was my younger brother, was killed in a wreck caused by an impaired driver, so now I have memorial services this weekend and a funeral to attend this coming week.
I just wanna play with my trains, but it's not allowed.
