Well, not completely. But being a homeowner is quite a tiresome bore and hassle sometimes.
Roof repair, new floors, plumbing repairs, air conditioners, etc.
Well this time around, the Dryer has died. Well not completely but it definitely has reached a point where you question on whether or not to try to get it repaired. I got the Dryer with the house, which I think really means that they decided it wasn't worth taking it with them. It is a gas dryer, which I can see is not something I would normally ahve bought. The price of natural gas honeslty isn't very effective down here in the Tejas. The price of natural gas has basically doubled in the last year, while the price of electricity here has only increased in about 25%.
Well, the last week or so it has been making a lot of noise. I mean a lot of noise. Thinking it was starting to die, Gina and I started pricing dryers. However, the last two days of it's life the dryer was getting louder. The death rattle I guess. We originally determined that the noise was related to the drum and that the bearings or the rollers it sits on.
It died while I was running the dryer last night. The load I had run wasn't quite dry, so I started it back up. Almost instantly I smelled gas. This meant that the repair was no longer a simple repalcement of bearings or rollers, it meant that something related to the "blower wheel" was now broken. So I unplugged the dryer and washer and turned off the gas at the wall. It was a little after 11:00 at this point, I stayed up for another 30 minutes or so to make sure that there wasn't a leak. (Didn't want to not wake up, since the AC intake it right outside the laundry room.)
All of this means that the Dryer that I got with the house about 6 years ago has served it's purpose quite well. I need to find the actual age of the dryer, but I believe it to be circa 1988-1992. In any case, it has definitely had a good long run and it is time for a new one.
I am currently at Casa De Rynes (my boss' house) and we have been watching the HBO special about Katrina,
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, it is pretty moving. To a certain point I feel sort of whiny about the issues with my AC, or my roof, or leaky plumbing, or my dryer.
I should have posted earlier about this, but I have been busy with work and with the new server. But the new server is online, yup online. As it turns out the port they had plugged it into on the ethernet switch was bad. So I had configured it as required, I was begining to doubt my technical prowess for a minute.
I best wrap up this blog entry as the tequilla is hitting me hard. Before I go, I will throw out that we are planning to get an electric dryer and yes we have a 220 plug there in the laundr room. I might need to get a gas technician to cap off the wall plug, just to ensure that there isn't an issue, maybe in the future natural gas will be cheaper.
