Well last night I get home and the sound was 10x worse. and there was a faint burnt smell. “Shit this can’t be happening!”, I thought. So off went the A/C and I called the A/C company for a service call. I was going to have to wait until today which meant I was going to be without A/C for the night. With that thought off I drove to Wal-Mart (that’s right the only store with fans at 10:30PM) and bought two 18″ fans. That fan made sleeping great. I only noticed the heat when I got up to use the restroom. By the morning the temp was about 81F.

Now the waiting game started. With the short notice and being a Saturday the service “window” was 7AM-7PM. What do you know they showed up around 5PM. By this time the house was up at a comfy 87F. The guy noticed right away that the blower fan was seizing up. Lucky the parts are still under warranty. Piece of cake, all I have to pay for is labor. He told me that he didn’t have a replacement and it would have to be ordered. I was already looking at rooms for the Motel 6 across the street. He then called another guy out and they ended up being able to rig up a different blower. The downside is the blower stays on all the time (not the A/C). I will take that any day over no A/C.

So then after 3 1/2 we sit down and go over the pricing. I honestly didn’t have a good number in my head about the labor cost, but I was thinking around $300. It was close, it came out to $616. I asked if he pulled that number out of his ass (in nicer words) and he showed me his pricing book. That was a flat rate for the labor no matter how long (or little) it took. The blower was around $600-700 so I guess I should be lucky that parts were covered.

The worst part about all this was I planning on seeing my dad and attending my friend’s going away dinner. Both plans didn’t happen, but I will be meeting him tomorrow for our last mountain bike ride in San Antonio.