Doug Van Pelt

My wife was right.

She's been telling me for a couple weeks now: "I don't like that sound the Air Conditioner is making. Please check it out." At the end of a blowing cycle, where the air conditioner would shut off and rest (until the next time the themorstat told it to come back on), there would be this loud slurping and dripping sound.

I hate to admit it,
but I blew her off. I opened the door and looked around, not finding anything. I am not sure if I replaced a filter or not, but I must not have looked behind the filter into the space beneath the AC unit.

A couple days ago, we noticed some of our laminated wood floor pieces were slightly warped at the joints they come together. We initially thought maybe they buckled due to humidity and not enough room to expand with the heat. Upon later inspection, though, I found another reason. When I was in the guest bedroom, I felt a squish under my feet. Yep, the carpet was wet. When I looked behind there yesterday, I found water everywhere. It's been dripping right from the main cooling unit onto the floor in that space underneath the AC closet. The water has then found its way into my closet, the closet of our guest room and the entryway in and out of the guest room. It's a mess and, since those laminated pieces snap in like a giant puzzle, an expert would have to come in to replaced the ruined/soiled pieces (or else we re-do the entire house from that point Northward...yikes!). Not a fun prospect.

Maybe God knows we can handle all this mess.

I posted a scorecard on twitter.com last night:
DVP vs. Vacuum: DVP wins.
CVP vs. daughter's lice: CVP wins.
DVP vs. AC unit: Tie (AC repairman wins in second visit).
DVP vs. wet floor:???

I forgot to post:
Biscuit's diahrea on wood floor by door vs. KVP: Tie (It stank even several minutes later when I returned from Home Depot).
If I would have been home when it happened, it might've resulted in:
Diahrea defeats DVP, as tears and flying objects flow freely...

And now for a little shout-out to Job's friends: You guys suck! If you could offer just a little bit more than the lame, pessimistic advice you gave Job, you wouldn't have been given such a bad description in Scripture for your actions.

I'm famous (again)!!!
Another video put together by who knows whom of one of my old band's songs.
Wow.

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at August 26, 2008 09:08 AM