It took last night’s heat and humidity for and I to lug the new (to us) air conditioner out of the garage, and put it in the window.

We brought Buddy’s food and water dishes into our bedroom, put the thing on medium, and closed the door. The lights dimmed, but there were no fuses blowing, no electrical fires, and no warm power cord.

So, thanks to getting an indoor, stand-up a/c unit over a year ago, we now have a working, window-unit A/C. Some fiddling remains to get the unit perfect, and to properly fill the hole in the window next to it, but we’re good.

Buddy is (or should be) locked in the bedroom, instead of in his kennel, with the A/C on low. Not only were we not going to be able to sleep last night, but we weren’t going to put Buddy through another day of 100+ heat index weather.

This also means that I no longer have to abandon the house after work. I can turn the A/C on, close the windows upstairs, and point a fan from the bedroom into my office. We have agreed only to use the unit in hellacious (literally?) weather like this, and that there would be no cause to use it on days where the temps are in the high 70s or low 80s. With a house as drafty as ours, we’d really just be wasting electricity.

Wish good luck at her new job today; she’s been there for about 45 minutes already. :)