It's nice here in Joisey! Just ask Brew, LT and KC!

 

Weather has been quite nice in fact. My central AC gets installed next week.

KC-10 FE out...

 

Sheesh. It was cold here today... and rainy. Almost had to break out the jeans. But then towards the end of the day it warmed up, and became nice and muggy. Last week was beautiful had the boat out three times. Pics to come soon.

 

Not bad for a E-4 guy living in the dorms on the base....

 

AC guy came out today (fortunately my dad knows the company owner so they came straight out. My wife called and said it was fixed, needed some part. I'll get the invoice when I get home, and probably chit out what weight I have left over from the sweat fest last night.

 

It's hotter than a fresh *******ed fox in a forrest fire around here.

 

So the wife says he was here for about 25 minutes. $50 for the service call, $75 for 1 hour labor (even though he wasn't here .5 hours) and $85 for some kinda cap.

$210 for 25 minutes work. I need a job like that! But hey, after a soaking *** sweating night, $210 is chump change!

 

That was only about 10 years ago...

KC-10 FE out...

 

Well, here in the Yukon, we made it to about +30 ( that's about 90 for you not on the metric scale)

 

Really nice here today. It was 75 when I left work at 5.....

Supposed to get in the 50's tonight.

.... but it was in the 90's the last two days and hotter than hades....

At least I got to put the second coat of wax on tonight and never broke a sweat. I just about melted down yesterday.

 

A couple of months ago our home a/c went out. Got estimates anywhere between $1,700 for the entire a/c only, to $4,500 for the whole air and heat system. THAT was the discount prices from "friends" and all of that, other prices would probably have been out of the Solar System.

What the heck, I decided to look at it myself. It was the fan motor, so I went to Grainger and got one for $46.00 and saved me a big chunk of cash by fixing it myself. Total repair parts cost less than $50.00.

Everyone who "looked" at it just assumed the whole thing was bad - NOBODY took the time/made the effort to do a little bit of diagnostics, they didn't seem to give a rats backside about MY $$...

Got it working and WHOOPS, the motor was turning the fan the wrong way, reversed the little plug thingy to change the polarity of the motor and it works just as good as it ever did, will freeze you out if you let it.

 

DFW Weather-


Friday (99), Saturday (102), Sunday (103), Monday (103)

A cold front came through today, so we're only expecting 97 today.

I'd better find a light jacket or something.

Look like we're in for a "cooling" trend, only one more 100 degree day this week (Thursday).

10-day forecast
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenda...nav_undeclared

 

I couldn't live in Texas (unless along the coast) if you paid me just because of the weather.

I've got a couple of friends that both moved to the Garland area and they both said it's the closest thing to hell on earth in the summer that they can imagine. Pictures of their houses showed nothing but scorched earth for yards with cracks you could lose a child in.

One said everyone there has a swimming pool because that's the only way you can stand to walk outside your house.. you have to have a large body of water to jump in and put the fire out.

They also said what people call trees around there we call shrubs and hedges here.

 

Man, it was so hot last Friday, as I walked to my car in the parking lot (which is only remotely humane due to trees every 50 - 100 feet) every time I walked out of the shade of one tre, into the sun, I felt like my shirt was being ironed, with me still inside the shirt.

I have been to the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia, (in and around Riyadh) and I can tell you- Central Texas (Killeen/Fort Hood) and North Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth) is every bit as hot as Saudi Arabia. Texas may not heat up as fast (I've seen 103 at 8:30 AM in Dharhan, S.A.) but 110 - 115 has shown it's face in Dallas, since I've been here. Summer time in Texas, is 1 month of preparory heat and maybe some rain (May 15 - June 15), 3-months of insane heat, and no rain (June 15 - September 15), followed by 2 months of reducing albeit sweltering heat (Sept 15 - Nov 15) with occasional rain, and a gradual cool down as you enter late November, early December. (For example, last night- as I drove my mother-in-law home, it was 11:37 PM, and still 91 degrees. Here, it gets dark, it doesn't necessarily "cool down". Well, it does cool down by Texas standards, but, not by anyone else's...

Winter is a toss up, it can be colder than New York (on certain days), and on others- so warm you don't even know (by the weather) it's Christmas.

I've seen 100 degrees in February (Feb 1996) in Killeen though; that was a hot summer. The week Independence Day came out, it got so hot, my rearview mirror (and that of 4 other cars) fell off the windshield the same day.) No lie...

Still, I love North Dallas/Plano/Frisco, if there's a nicer metropolitan area, I haven't been there yet. (OK, The Bay Area *in some spots* is nicer, and definitely cooler. I'd love to live there, but I can't afford to live there. Not unless I want to trade my house for a 1 bedroom studio apartment, in Oakland.)

 

The only ice falling in Texas in June/July is hail...

It has come down so heavily, that it did look like a snowstorm had gone through...

20 minutes later, it was gone.