Sickness and Furnaces
Hi, I'm still sick!
Emily took me the doctor today, because I certainly am not capable of taking myself to the doctor! (no seriously, I don't tend to go to the doctor alone when I'm sick, and considering I've been to the doctor like, 3 times in the time I've been alive... it's not too often to set this sort of precedent). They did an X-Ray for my rib-pain, which it likely is bruised or something similar problems on my ribs, as a result of Judo and likely further complicated by coughing since I've been sick on Wednesday.
Oh, and I'm still sick! After coming home, I crashed for houuuuuuurs! it's good to get some sleep! (got home from the doctors around 11am).
So, our furnace has been acting up. In the ways that a 12+ year old furnace which I instituted a 'fix' of hitting the blower motor with a hammer for the past 2-3 years can be effectively 'acting up' or 'needing fixing' as it were.
A replacement motor would come out to about $600 alone just for parts, and the Gas thingier would be another 500 or so, bringing me easily into the 1200-1500 range for two parts replacements on an out of warranty unit.
Though a brand new one (parts+labor included) runs starting at $2500. So, I opt'd for a 2-phase style, running me just a bit over $2900 - Hooray.
The installers got here at 9 (PM) for the installation. They completely got it removed a short bit ago (its almost 11 now!) and are working on the portion of the installation. So, we've had no heat for the past 2 hours... hopefully it all gets sorted soon, so we gets us some heat in here!
Otherwise, hooray for spending a crap load of money today, while on the same gesture, not being able to work (sucks). I cannot wait to return back to work on Monday, getting back into the swing of doing things, responding to emails, drawing pretty pictures of storage loop layouts, and all the other joys of whatever it is that I do!
Emily took me the doctor today, because I certainly am not capable of taking myself to the doctor! (no seriously, I don't tend to go to the doctor alone when I'm sick, and considering I've been to the doctor like, 3 times in the time I've been alive... it's not too often to set this sort of precedent). They did an X-Ray for my rib-pain, which it likely is bruised or something similar problems on my ribs, as a result of Judo and likely further complicated by coughing since I've been sick on Wednesday.
Oh, and I'm still sick! After coming home, I crashed for houuuuuuurs! it's good to get some sleep! (got home from the doctors around 11am).
So, our furnace has been acting up. In the ways that a 12+ year old furnace which I instituted a 'fix' of hitting the blower motor with a hammer for the past 2-3 years can be effectively 'acting up' or 'needing fixing' as it were.
A replacement motor would come out to about $600 alone just for parts, and the Gas thingier would be another 500 or so, bringing me easily into the 1200-1500 range for two parts replacements on an out of warranty unit.
Though a brand new one (parts+labor included) runs starting at $2500. So, I opt'd for a 2-phase style, running me just a bit over $2900 - Hooray.
The installers got here at 9 (PM) for the installation. They completely got it removed a short bit ago (its almost 11 now!) and are working on the portion of the installation. So, we've had no heat for the past 2 hours... hopefully it all gets sorted soon, so we gets us some heat in here!
Otherwise, hooray for spending a crap load of money today, while on the same gesture, not being able to work (sucks). I cannot wait to return back to work on Monday, getting back into the swing of doing things, responding to emails, drawing pretty pictures of storage loop layouts, and all the other joys of whatever it is that I do!