After an hour or two of fiddling and web-searching, I think I managed to significantly decrease the white space on the sides of my blog. Hooray.
Today's repairs
It wouldn't be a real day at my house without some home repairs scheduled. Today, I had two men come to check and clean the a/c filters and show me how to do it.
Well, there was no filter to speak of in one of the units. Slight oversight when they put the house together, it seems.
The bedroom filter was spic and span, but it certainly was not easy to access. The repairman had to pull some Super Stretch moves in order to access it.
The basement filters were a snap. As long as you can balance yourself on top of a toilet without falling in.
But then they tackled the living room a/c. After some very serious effort trying to remove the grate (in our house, all they did was whack a whole in the wall and put the grate on. There's no frame for the grate to rest in, or anything handy like that) and after removing half the ceiling plaster in the process, they finally got the grate off. Then, more acrobatics were involved in actually accessing the filter. Then, the guy pulled out something that was straight out of Alien. I was soooo utterly grossed out. They immediately took it outside to hose off.
It was pointed out to me that the filter should be blue. But it in no way resembled the color blue. It had about two inches of disgusting alien life forms encrusted on it. The repairman admitted he had never seen anything like it. He guessed it had never been cleaned since the house was built.
Anyway, as usual, right after he walked into the house, the repairman said, "This house is very clean." They always say clean! And he also commented that the a/c grates are all very streamlined and he said they clearly cost a lot of money. But, as usual, I was quick to point out the house's deficiencies. Like the fact that if one light bulb in our living room or bedroom goes out, all the lights in that room go out as well. Bad design.
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