I have mine just shoved out the window. You're supposed to screw it in to the frame, but mine are metal, and I couldn't deal. It's been fine since last summer!

We never had our A/C permanently mounted when we were renters - too paranoid about the security deposit!

Now that the windows belong to us (and we're more paranoid about D climbing on things than putting holes in the wall), both units are permanently screwed into the windows. We'll probably leave them there when we move.

I'm glad my current place has central air, although I've been pretty lucky and haven't had a really hot summer since I moved in three years ago.

I was chatting with my brother yesterday to wish him happy birthday (which is today), and he was telling me that he was filling out a loan application for his part of his son's tuition. I made him laugh (ruefully) when I vastly underestimated how much a year's tuition is (I guessed $25K, he said it was more like $40K). Now I know why my parents were so glad for my financial aid package (out of four years, they only had to pay for less than $10K total; my loans and scholarship took care of the rest).

I watched about three minutes of Raising the Bar.

Loved Colbert & his hair! The SO told me it was going to happen, so we were looking forward to it. Especially loved the pre-episode preening he was doing...foreshadowing! I think I should support the USO; that's something I could do as a pacifist probably.

I have the crazy drivers right now, too, but it's because everyone's come up from Phoenix (we're a resort town, oddly enough) and is driving like they're in a city, or possibly like they're very old. Yesterday's version was a lady who was stopped at a stoplight coming out of the grocery store...all the way against the left side of the road. Now while it is the entry to a parking lot, I have no idea why she thought that was the right place to be. So drivers turning right couldn't see her, and just pulled into the lane, then had to swerve around her. I was waiting to turn left, so I could see her, but by the time it was clear enough for me to turn, there were other drivers stopped in the correct position at the light, and therefore I had to squeeze between.

She looked really scared, so I felt badly for her, but still. Not safe.

Oh! And Tino knocked me down and sent me for a reasonably serious tumble. I was on my way into the office at our storage unit to get the new combination (which they change without telling anyone, so evidently Tino works there, too). And I noticed there were a bunch of boats in the yard, see above re: resort town, so I was looking at the boats and didn't notice that the gravel had worn away from the base of the concrete ramp, so I tripped over the ramp end and went flying, limbs akimbo.

The little kid of the lady that works there saw me fall and was gravely concerned. I'm mostly okay, scrapes and bruises, but like with a car wreck, I'm much more sore today. Pretty much the whole of my right side is stiff and achy. Stupid Tino tripping me up.

However, I got a ton of stuff done including finding a new pair of cargo's on clearance for $15, and taking our cardboard to the mailing store for reuse and the bin for recycling.

You just shove it out the window? I'm terrified to do that for the one that'll hang way above the deck.

Well it's in the front window so above the porch roof. If it fell there'd be no harm done (except to the ac, I guess). I screw the side panels into the window frame though.

When it was in the back bedroom, when my friend was living there, we did install the brackets though. It was a big pain in the ass. I wonder if they are still attached back there. I don't remember taking them off. And, if so, if they'd fit any old ac we'd get to put in there when Bob is using it as his office. Starting next week-ish!

Liese! Ack! Falling is no good!

My Sir Squid t-shirt has arrived!

Yeah, Lisa, I recommend against falling. It is overrated as a course of action.

We don't have ac at all here, but lots of ceiling fans, and with the day/night temperature swings we get, so far so good. We just open up the windows at night and close them first thing in the morning. Which reminds me, I need to finish washing the windows and putting in the screens. Not happening today, though, we've got 35mph winds again.

I just almost typed \\o/ in an IM to an associate.

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have gotten it.

Hah! Someone at work just sent me a link that turned out to be our own erinaceous speaking at TED: [link]

Question for some of our craftier buffistae:

We made tie dye t-shirts at a party this weekend, and were sent home with wet shirts, still tied, in baggies. What do I do with them? Wash and then dry? Or just dry?