Air Conditioning
We've grown up in a house that was constantly set at 60 degrees. So we really like air conditioning. Not to mention, three floors up, its gets pretty scorching. We're debating between 8,000 BTU, 10,000, and 12,000 BTU. Since we're primarily cooling the front room, kitchen, and hallway, we think 10,000 is probably more than adaquate.
But then we have the far back room to deal with: do we go with 12,000 and hope it can cool that room too, which while not too large a space to keep cool, is down a narrow hallway and through a nook? We already have a 5,000 btu unit, more than large enough for our bedroom. Could working in tandem with the 10,000 btu unit be enough? These are all the questions we've been asking ourselves.
We stopped at home depot, but they only had Maytags with EER of 9.7. We were hoping for a Frederick with 10+ EER. This isn't just because we want to save the environment, but also because we think in the long term it always cheaper to pay more for more efficient AC. Then we went to Target, and they were completely sold out; so much for that. We're hoping to find a Home Depot in a better area today that will have higher end models. But we'll see; they might be sold out.
But then we have the far back room to deal with: do we go with 12,000 and hope it can cool that room too, which while not too large a space to keep cool, is down a narrow hallway and through a nook? We already have a 5,000 btu unit, more than large enough for our bedroom. Could working in tandem with the 10,000 btu unit be enough? These are all the questions we've been asking ourselves.
We stopped at home depot, but they only had Maytags with EER of 9.7. We were hoping for a Frederick with 10+ EER. This isn't just because we want to save the environment, but also because we think in the long term it always cheaper to pay more for more efficient AC. Then we went to Target, and they were completely sold out; so much for that. We're hoping to find a Home Depot in a better area today that will have higher end models. But we'll see; they might be sold out.
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A stolen joke you might enjoy:
A cowboy was holding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
sunglasses, YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formula. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a consultant for the Democratic party," says the cowboy.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my business...
.....Now give me back my dog
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