return of the househusband

so, today is the second week day of being done with seminary. yesterday, i had track practice and tim was still in town. but today, all alone @ home, and i'm not going to track (no practice today not just my laziness). sara called me this morning. she was in town for work, had some free time, wanted to know if i wanted to grab some breakfast. now, i was sleeping at the time, but went. hey, i'm not just a lazy punk, i had to get up @ 4:30 to take tim to the airport. it was difficult to get back to sleep after that. hey, i'm fine anyway that it was 9:30 on a weekday and i was sleeping. but i got up and went to eat. good time, chatting and eating @ the chicken pie shop.

after watching the second half of the price is right, i decided my day would be better served by tidying up. well, yesterday i did the dishes, but whatever.


first, i took the Xmas lights down from the windows in the front. this was done so that they could be opened. then, i cleaned the window seals and some other details in the living room.

then, i went to our bathroom. unfortunately, heather cleaned this room the other day. well, that was good, but the back thing is that we have a swamp cooler. the first time or two of the season that you turn it on, it blows out a big gust of dust that has accummulated in it. it has gotten warm enough over these last few days that we'll need to use the cooler soon (in fact i've got it on as i type).



sunday, heather tried to run the cooler to no avail. she told me it just made this "rrrrrrrrrrr" sound but didn't blow. i opened the front, turned it on, and yes, "rrrrrrrrrrr". i figured that the turn wheel deal was just stuck in place, and the best thing to do would be to turn it by hand and thus free it. so, i turned it off, and then went about moving the big wheel. yep, stuck, and yep, it moved soon. but, it moved and tried to snatch my finger off. yow!



now, this picture doesn't do it justice. i was too lazy to go and get the camera right away, but you might have better seen this white gash on my middle finger. it was deep enough that i kept looking at it and thinking, "is this going to bleed?" nope, it didn't.

so, after freeing the wheel, i turned on the pump to thruroughly soak the pads. that should cut down the amount of dust blown by now freed wheel. i let the pump run on its own for maybe an hour, the pads were nicely wet, and you could feel the humidity around the swamp cooler. while waiting, i had taken all the stuff out of the bathroom that i didn't want to get dusty (toothbrushes, towels, etc) and put most everything else in cabinets. turned on cooler (with doors into adjacent rooms shut), small dust cloud, turn off cooler, wait second turn back on, no dust cloud. sweet. turn off cooler.



then, i brought in the vacuum to get up all the dust on the ground, countertops, and little nooks and crannies. it's all clean and running now.