logic fail

So I got up this morning after at least 6 hours sleep and planned a 3-4 mile run.  Since I’d gotten out of bed yesterday afternoon after being sick in bed since Friday, it made sense, right?  I was ready!  Well, I’m ready to STAND instead of lie in bed, but not quite ready for a run.  Since it is so bitterly cold out (62F/17C right now) I figure I can even run this afternoon.  Normally, that’s just not possible due to the heat, but hey! freezing temperatures do have their merit.

We’ve been looking for a fridge to replace our freezer since we came back and found our fridge had stopped working since September or so.  This was the fridge that survived both Emily and Wilma and then went on to provide a good couple more years service.  It was a small fridge (8-10 ft3) but a trooper.  One of the abaniles next door took it away – I’m sure he’ll be able to coax it through a couple more months of duty.  That leaves us with the fridge occupying the livingroom (as it leaks like a waterfall in the summer which runs directly off the deck into the calica next to the trailer) which, upon return, we found is really a freezer.   I took possession of this fridge when one of our neighbors put in on the road in retirement (she got a new one) and I excitedly ran to Jamie and made him help me bring it in our lovely home.  I t has always had a water problem – but this was in the heat of summer – some 105-115F.  We find that in the winter we can’t dial the temperature low enough.  So the trailer fridge (6 ft3) is the produce fridge and the livingroom fridge is the freezer.   With the aguinaldo payout in mid December, Telebodga put on a huge discount on appliances and we’ve been salivating at the thought of buying a new fridge.  And a mini-split for the trailer and recamera.

We’re limited to 30amps of power here and the limping AC of the trailer uses about 15 of that.  So we’re thinking of replacing it (since it is definitely on its last legs) before the heat of summer with an 8amp mini-split and also replacing the recamera AC as it is slowly dying also (remote doesn’t work, only works at low fan, doesn’t remove the humidity of summer unless the room is never used).  We didn’t realize the draw of the appliances we had been looking at until late in the game.  We have one more trip to Cancun and the Telebodega there before we make a choice.  The Daewoo and Samsung brands are deliciously low in amp draw, at under 2amps for even the largest fridge, but Mabe, at 3amps has a lovely layout.  Now that we found the Xbox 360 (thank you Santa!!) draws FIVE amps of power, we’re watching each and every amp.  I don’t know why we’re dragging our feet on this, if we wait much longer the aguinaldo sales will be gone (they probably left with Xmas) and we’ll have to negotiate really hard to get those same discounts.

Pike had his first back-from-vacation Judo class yesterday and was supremely bummed to find his friends were either still on vacation or had left.  I’m hoping he’ll return to Judo – the dojo could really use the money and he is really talented.  I’m hoping to get him to commit to the month of January and see how that goes.  Course, if he’s not having fun (missing his friends) it really doesn’t make sense to go other than to rid his body of the buildup of testosterone.  I really really really need to get off my ass and get Jesse and appointment with an orthopedist.  He has had knee problems since the summer and I want to make sure that we’ve diagnosed him correctly and he isn’t harboring huge tumors there.  I think I’m just going to go with Hospiten as I never could find the house/office of the other ortho in town.

Jamie fixed the driver’s door on the van!  Ever since Dean, we’ve had a broken driver’s key/lock thingie when our van was broken into in the lot of Costco where we’d evacuated.  To open the driver’s door, you’d have to open the side doors and squeeze over to the driver’s door to release the electric lock (since the passenger door electric controls are broken).  I’ve been too sick to actually check and make sure I understood correctly, but he gave me a key and I’m hoping that means the driver’s door can be opened with a key!  What a miracle!  You know, it really is the little things in life…