Is Summer Coming?

We had some really hot days last week ( 3 of 'em!) in the land of North J...but overall it's been a pretty cool May. Forecast for the foreseeable future features temps in the 60's and 70's and rain...awesome.

Memorial Day is this weekend so we've got that to look forward to.

OSSS is back from college, and his truck (my Tahoe) has been AWOL as a pal is working on brakejob. He does work on the side and apparently replacing the brakelines on a 2005 Chevy Tahoe is a bear. So I've been letting the kid use my Lincoln MKX during the day, after he drops me off at the J-O-B. I'm a good guy.

HS Baseball season done for YSSS. It was a struggle this year, mostly due to HC and his use of the player. But he soldiered it as best as he could, and seems like a new kid now. Thanks for that because he was rough living with for 6 weeks or so.

I deadlifted 385 lbs. last week. I'm a beast.

Wow.

RIP.

We Got AC!

Now the House of SoulSlam is about 117 years old. It's an old house. Nice house, but every project is a major project. The bedrooms upstairs have plaster walls. We've done over the bathrooms (2.5), the kitchen, added a deck, hardwood floors, new basement (thanks random hurricane), etc. The one thing we never had was central AC.

So every year I would put 5 or so window units in various rooms. One is about 12,000 BTU and H-E-A-V-Y. It would usually be a half day project to get them in, shore them up so they were level and stable, and get them going. And I would never put them in in April or early May, it would typically just be 88 degrees one day so here we go.

Anyway, it was pretty hot. We didn't have units for the some of the upstairs bedrooms or main bath, so that would be sweltering in the North J summer. Rough livin".

We had looked at central AC many years ago, but remember, the house is 117 years old. So there is no ductwork. So that was gonna be a challenge. A big one. So this year we decided to check it again. And the AC guy and our regular contractor came up with a plan. A semi-expensive plan, but the house would be 1) cool and 2) increase in overall value. So we went with it. Nice.