Midweek Appraisal

The A/C is not repaired yet. I guess repair is not the word. It is not cleaned. I would post a picture of the mold and mildew found inside the plenum chamber, just below the a/c coils in the basement unit, but it's disgusting. Not going to breath that stuff anymore. Probably why I have felt like crap since moving into this apartment--even though the furnace running does not smell, it was surely still blowing mold and bacteria into the system. For the last two nights, it's been hot and humid, but I'm not running the a/c.  Today a thunderstorm rolled through, which cooled things down temporarily but also increased the humidity. I had to close all the windows, which warmed it up inside. I'm on the second floor. It is 75 degrees outside right now. I have all the windows open and three fans running and the temperature inside has maintained at a steady, sticky 84.

Uma has adapted to the heat in her own way. 

Furthermore, if this weren't bad enough, I'm becoming a little disenchanted with the little musical group I belong to. OK, we're bad.  So bad. But, that's OK. The trouble is, the more I learn about jazz--the genre of music the two other members of our group want to play--the more I realize that I'll never be proficient at it. It's just one of those things. Like, if you enjoy painting as a hobby, and fall in with a bunch of people who aspire to paint the ceilings of chapels across Europe at the behest of various Popes or whatnot. Not gonna happen. I won't critique the other members. I just know that I have learned enough to suddenly realize that I should be embarrassed. I do NOT know what I'm doing. This has all given me a new respect for jazz and for jazz musicians, but, to be honest, I don't really like listening to it. I understand the allure of playing--but it's like juggling bean bags: fun to do, sort of, if you can get off the ground, maybe even impressive to some degree, but no one wants to observe you doing it for more than, say, five or ten seconds. I think to sum up without excuses, it has stopped being fun.

I'm diggin' the acupuncture, though. I go back Tuesday with questions and a few more items on the list of things I'd like to address. And the a/c repair guy is coming over tomorrow morning to fix the mold/mildew problem. Really looking forward to that.