AC Days 3 and 4: mission accomplished
First, the punch line: for the first time, as of about 2:00 PM this afternoon, I am making mortgage payments on a house with central air.
Details: yesterday, under Lisa’s close eye, the contractors pulled all the tubing, connected the electrical wire, installed the compressor, installed a new thermostat, and test-fired the blower (albeit without refrigerant). [...]
Nights are growing long: Alex Chilton free concert
Well, I may have missed Sleater-Kinney at Avalon (sob), and I can’t make My Morning Jacket and Wilco tomorrow night, but I’m damned if I’m going to miss Alex Chilton at the Hatch Shell on Saturday—for free. He’s going to be there with “the original Box Tops”—not sure if that means the actual band or [...]
