Bad luck comes in threes, right? While I was away climbing this weekend, the air conditioning stopped working. In the middle of the Arizona 105 degree days. Suffice to say that sleeping on Sunday night was a tad uncomfortable. Yesterday the guy came out, and found it was just a pulley that had slipped off of the furnace. $45 for that, no biggie. While he was here we discussed getting the evap (swamp) cooler running, so I can not get my ass handed to me every month on the electric bill. That's happening today, and another $45 for that. This morning I was doing a load of laundry. It was on spin cycle, and I went to go pee. While peeing, the toilet started bubbling. That's never a good sign. I look over at the tub, and it's filling up with lovely black water. Joy! Another call to American Home Shield to set up an appointment, and I'm waiting to hear back from the service tech. Hopefully this will just be some sort of weird clog, and not a collapsed pipe. If it's the former, $45 and we're back in business. If it's the latter... well, I don't really want to think about that right now.

Is homeownership this fun for _everybody_?