We're waiting on the ladies to finish getting ready for the day so I thought I would post real quick. The flight out here was fine. We managed to avoid all the bad weather and had two fairly pleasant flights. It's not terribly cold, the elevation takes some getting used to, the air is dry and the time being a hour behind is kind of strange when you're used to going east and being an hour ahead. Sara and Mike also have an incredible view of the mountains all around them. The whole area is in kind of a valley surrounded by a circle of mountains. Anyway, more later.
--Paul
Monday, April 16, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Adventures in HVAC
So a couple of weeks ago DeAnne and I are watching a movie or something and it gets to a quiet part where no one's talking and it just so happens that at that moment the air conditioner cut off. Normally we wouldn't have paid it much mind except for the dripping noise that accompanied the shutoff. Turns out that our inside unit had a coil leak. This normally wouldn't be too expensive to replace, but it the unit was the original one that came with the house. It was 15 years old.
They gave us a couple of options. We could replace just the interior unit for about the same it would cost us to get new coils or we could just get a whole new unit. So we're now the proud owners of a new HVAC system. I'm interested to see what it does to the power bill. It came with a new digital thermostat that's nothing fancy, but it's got to be better than the old analog one we had. Also, our old unit was a 10 seer (what that means exactly, I'm not sure, I just know it's the efficiency rating) and the new one is a 13. It'll be interesting to compare the next couple of power bills to what we were paying last year.
In other news, we're now just a week away from spring break and our trip to Utah to see DeAnne's sister and her husband. She's really looking forward to it and I guess I am too except for the flying. Flying is such a pain.
Other than that, that's about it. If I think of something else, I'll post again. Later.
--Paul
They gave us a couple of options. We could replace just the interior unit for about the same it would cost us to get new coils or we could just get a whole new unit. So we're now the proud owners of a new HVAC system. I'm interested to see what it does to the power bill. It came with a new digital thermostat that's nothing fancy, but it's got to be better than the old analog one we had. Also, our old unit was a 10 seer (what that means exactly, I'm not sure, I just know it's the efficiency rating) and the new one is a 13. It'll be interesting to compare the next couple of power bills to what we were paying last year.
In other news, we're now just a week away from spring break and our trip to Utah to see DeAnne's sister and her husband. She's really looking forward to it and I guess I am too except for the flying. Flying is such a pain.
Other than that, that's about it. If I think of something else, I'll post again. Later.
--Paul
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Heros
It's spring which means that we're in our peak TV watching season and this year has been pretty good.
24 has been as awesome as ever. I love that they don't ever do reruns during the season, but at the same time, it's a long time to wait from the end of May to the beginning of January for the new season to start, but man is the wait ever worth it. This year has been a sequel to last year in a lot of ways. They carried over a lot of the previous season's plot lines that we left unresolved. If you've never watched this show, go rent either season 1 or season 5. All of them are great, but if you don't want to start at the beginning with season 1, 5 is a good place to jump on.
Lost started the year being awful but has improved the past 3 or 4 weeks. After the first couple of episodes this year, we almost quit watching it. But we stuck with it and hopefully the rest of the season will be worth it. Last week's episode was probably the best since season 2. We're in a stretch now where they've taken a cue from 24 and not showing any reruns till the season is over. It's nice having shows that you watch every week and know they're not going to be reruns.
We've watched a little bit of American Idol. We just haven't seen anyone that we really like this season so it's hard to commit to watching it. We couldn't even remember it was on last week.
Finally there's Heroes. This show is has reached a point where it's right up there with 24 on my list of favorites. DeAnne has even gotten really into it and she's usually not a fan of things that have to do with super powers and comic books. It's on hiatus till April right now, but once it comes back, it'll go all the way to the end of the season on new shows. They've taken a different approach with this show in that they'll show 6 or so new episodes and then take a few weeks off and then come back and show another block of new episodes. It's worked really well in that the breaks have made me miss the show and have built my anticipation up for the new ones when they start. I can't say enough good things about this show. It moves the way that Lost should move. There's rarely a week that goes by that the viewers don't get a vast amount of new information about some aspect of the story, it has great characters and it's like watching a comic book on TV. How awesome is that?
So that's where we stand on TV. DeAnne still watches Grey's Anatomy every week but I'm hit or miss with it. Other than that, that's really all we have time to watch but I feel like we're watching some of the better shows on TV. I just wish they'd move Friday Night Lights back to a time when we're not at church.
--Paul
24 has been as awesome as ever. I love that they don't ever do reruns during the season, but at the same time, it's a long time to wait from the end of May to the beginning of January for the new season to start, but man is the wait ever worth it. This year has been a sequel to last year in a lot of ways. They carried over a lot of the previous season's plot lines that we left unresolved. If you've never watched this show, go rent either season 1 or season 5. All of them are great, but if you don't want to start at the beginning with season 1, 5 is a good place to jump on.
Lost started the year being awful but has improved the past 3 or 4 weeks. After the first couple of episodes this year, we almost quit watching it. But we stuck with it and hopefully the rest of the season will be worth it. Last week's episode was probably the best since season 2. We're in a stretch now where they've taken a cue from 24 and not showing any reruns till the season is over. It's nice having shows that you watch every week and know they're not going to be reruns.
We've watched a little bit of American Idol. We just haven't seen anyone that we really like this season so it's hard to commit to watching it. We couldn't even remember it was on last week.
Finally there's Heroes. This show is has reached a point where it's right up there with 24 on my list of favorites. DeAnne has even gotten really into it and she's usually not a fan of things that have to do with super powers and comic books. It's on hiatus till April right now, but once it comes back, it'll go all the way to the end of the season on new shows. They've taken a different approach with this show in that they'll show 6 or so new episodes and then take a few weeks off and then come back and show another block of new episodes. It's worked really well in that the breaks have made me miss the show and have built my anticipation up for the new ones when they start. I can't say enough good things about this show. It moves the way that Lost should move. There's rarely a week that goes by that the viewers don't get a vast amount of new information about some aspect of the story, it has great characters and it's like watching a comic book on TV. How awesome is that?
So that's where we stand on TV. DeAnne still watches Grey's Anatomy every week but I'm hit or miss with it. Other than that, that's really all we have time to watch but I feel like we're watching some of the better shows on TV. I just wish they'd move Friday Night Lights back to a time when we're not at church.
--Paul
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