Day: May 30, 2006

Tonight, our house’s central A/C unit froze up.  I noticed just after 8pm that it was really hot upstairs.  I checked the thermostat on the first floor, which was reading 80 degrees.  It was set to 72.  The A/C was running hard, but the air wasn’t coming out cold.  I looked downstairs and all the refrigerant lines were iced over.  Even the outdoor valves were iced over.  Quite a feat when it was still close to 90 degrees outside.  After three hours of thawing, I let it run for 25 minutes to see if it was working again.  The temperature was 80 when the time started and still 80 when it ended, so we’ll have to get someone out here to look at it.  It looks like we either have a very dirty indoor coil or a refrigerant leak.  Not fun with the current forecast.  I’m going to sleep in the basement tonight where it’s about 74 degrees at the moment.

This past weekend, my extended family took a trip to Virginia Beach. Vicki and Jim, my dad’s cousin and her husband, and their daughter Jessica opened up their beach house to my grandpa, my parents, my sister, one of my best friends Michael, and myself. We enjoyed a quick weekend of beach activities with perfect beach weather. It had been years since I had been down to the beach house, which was once my great grandparents’ home, so it was fun to see the old place and get a chance to swim in the beach. I went to the beach last summer, but in my opinion, California beaches are much too cold for swimming.

I also enjoyed getting the chance to spend time with Michael, since I hadn’t seen him since the semester ended.  We took turns burying each other in the sand, like you can see in the picture above.  I still need to get my sister to send me the pictures of Michael buried in the sand.