Highlights: new heater & a/c unit, Viejas casino
Happy St. Patty’s Day! I wore a green shirt, which was about the extent of my celebration for Ireland’s patron saint of Catholicism. (=
Pretty much the whole day was taken up by having a new home heater & a/c unit installed in my house. Another corner that was cut when the house was built in 1986… they put a 3 ton heater in; too small for the size of this house. It’s a gas heater too, which runs a pilot light 24 hours a day. It’s a major pull on the house energy bill. Aside from that, I have a 20 year old air conditioning unit which is not efficient at all.
With the new energy efficient & properly sized heater & a/c for the house, the energy bills should drop by over a third. We may be getting a hot summer this year, so the new air conditioning will be good. With the cost of energy in California jumping all over the place, energy efficient appliances will probably pay for themselves within 4 years. In the meantime, my flight bonus just flew out the window- but again… it’s all investment in my home, and it’s tax deductable next year. Thank god for that!
Two more Iraqi guys came from Citiwide electric & heating to do the work. They did good work! Interesting conversation too. Mike & his cousin are also from Christian parts of Northern Iraq, near Tikrit, and fled their country 11 years ago. They still have family in Iraq. In their eyes, Mike is now the wealthy cousin, by virtue of him living here. As he puts it, Iraqis think money grows on trees here. I know plenty of Indonesian’s with that idea stuck in their head. I’m not rich, but I’m sure pictures of this house don’t help convince anyone of that. (=
When compared to my Indonesian friends, I am financially a lot closer to Donald Trump & Bill Gates than I ever imagined before. Just don’t tell the IRS. (= ha ha.
(insert video of heater install + pics) [6]
My house has been the whole of my social life this week, and there was no-one around to go out or hang around with…. Felt the need to get out of the house & do “something”,, so I drove out to Viejas casino on an impulse to try my hand at the blackjack table. I won some & lost more =/ ehh,, we can’t be winners everytime. home by 3 am.
Happy St. Patty’s Day! I wore a green shirt, which was about the extent of my celebration for Ireland’s patron saint of Catholicism. (=
Pretty much the whole day was taken up by having a new home heater & a/c unit installed in my house. Another corner that was cut when the house was built in 1986… they put a 3 ton heater in; too small for the size of this house. It’s a gas heater too, which runs a pilot light 24 hours a day. It’s a major pull on the house energy bill. Aside from that, I have a 20 year old air conditioning unit which is not efficient at all.
With the new energy efficient & properly sized heater & a/c for the house, the energy bills should drop by over a third. We may be getting a hot summer this year, so the new air conditioning will be good. With the cost of energy in California jumping all over the place, energy efficient appliances will probably pay for themselves within 4 years. In the meantime, my flight bonus just flew out the window- but again… it’s all investment in my home, and it’s tax deductable next year. Thank god for that!
Two more Iraqi guys came from Citiwide electric & heating to do the work. They did good work! Interesting conversation too. Mike & his cousin are also from Christian parts of Northern Iraq, near Tikrit, and fled their country 11 years ago. They still have family in Iraq. In their eyes, Mike is now the wealthy cousin, by virtue of him living here. As he puts it, Iraqis think money grows on trees here. I know plenty of Indonesian’s with that idea stuck in their head. I’m not rich, but I’m sure pictures of this house don’t help convince anyone of that. (=
When compared to my Indonesian friends, I am financially a lot closer to Donald Trump & Bill Gates than I ever imagined before. Just don’t tell the IRS. (= ha ha.
(insert video of heater install + pics) [6]
My house has been the whole of my social life this week, and there was no-one around to go out or hang around with…. Felt the need to get out of the house & do “something”,, so I drove out to Viejas casino on an impulse to try my hand at the blackjack table. I won some & lost more =/ ehh,, we can’t be winners everytime. home by 3 am.
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