Tuesday night personal

A/C iced up again. Not pretty. I noticed it was a little warm in here when I got home from work, but I hadn't left the A/C on very cold when I left this a.m. (I probably should have.) So I turned it back up to cold, and the place wasn't cooling down. (You can see the blow-dryer jammed inside, and the old towels I put on top of the water heater to catch the water from the melting ice.)

Meanwhile, after deploying the blow-dryer, I put more insulation (bunched-up Glad Wrap and clear packing tape) around a leaky window in this room (not far from the A/C) to keep the humidity out. I was going to use plastic Publix (or other) bags but didn't want to have anything obviously visible from the pool deck, one story below. (Publix bags are brown.)

In the time I've been writing this, all the ice has melted and the A/C is back up and running (and cooling).

This wasn't nearly as bad as the last time this happened, a few weeks ago, before I got the cat-door panel for the slider (it's only happened twice now). Last time, it took me two hours to melt the ice - there was so much of it.

I had to go to the store right after I discovered the ice, so I turned the A/C off, of course, and left. By the time I got back, a lot of it had already melted in the heat of the apartment. (All of those copper tubes sticking out the front of it had been coated with ice.) But it's more difficult melting the ice covering the metal fins inside, which is what the blow-dryer is for.

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Lucas watching "Madagascar" (he's seen it before)

I called E. at his place of work today to find out the latest on the apartment. His interview (with the condo board, I presume) is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, so he's taking the night off from work.