Desiderius Price

On the bright side, chapter posted a short bit earlier on “the repair guy”.

Aww! Buuuut that means you get a day off to spend more time writing dirty things and playing with us. Soo… Yay?

I didn’t take a full day, simply left early because I wasn’t up to doing the job as I wasn’t feeling well.  Don’t worry, got plenty of time off this month to work on dirty things (and research said dirty things, well, most of it, with all those … erm … “nature” documentaries)!

Oooohhhh, oooohhh, ooh… that hits WAY too close to home   ::stares miserably at piles of notes but still no thesis:: 

Way to make that story your bitch! 

I’m trying to come up with next month’s goal… somewhere between 250k and 300k (for a 50-100k net)…. decisions, decisions….

Wow...a button here on AFF to remove reviews on AO3!

As a software developer I am suitably impressed by the dragons that runs this place...

*sticks tongue out at @Thundercloud*  We have the ability to delete reviews here, which is not the most obvious feature, sadly. I just thought I’d do that educate folks thing we mods are supposed to do from time to time, to earn our, well, nothing, but you know…  

@Thundercloud They know the secret handshake.

After four years on AFF, it’s nice to finally see a story breach the 10k mark.  Next goal, maybe 20k?  50?  100k?  

Glad I decided to return to this story, breathe life back into it.  (It was at 5k at the start of the year.)

Four years? Jesus, I’ve been here since the Mesozoic era and yet for some reason I don’t remember AFF without @Desiderius Price. Good luck on that 100k mark! 

I didn’t register until I wanted to post my stories.   And while I might have heard of AFF many, many, years ago, it took a google search to find.  But, yeah, thanks.  I’m finding that hanging out on AFF kinda fills a niche in life … better than other “social media”.

Crisis averted, somebody helpfully hit the button, 89 kudos.

@Avaloyuru  Don’t forget to hug your dogs. 

In this case, the vet did mention that his teeth needed to be cleaned, so I knew that needed attention.  I even managed to get that scheduled for this Tuesday...but then I obviously had to cancel.

Yep!  Hug them all the time!  They are all I have.  My dogs sleep with me at night and when I take naps.  They have medical conditions and the meds are costly, thankfully there are human meds that work just as good and cost half the price.

I love it when it’s a human med.  My vet, actually with this one, at one point recommended that, go to the local store, get it OTC, and cut the pill in half.  But really, the only difference is probably quality and more stringent testing for the human stuff.

Your reasoning makes perfect sense.  Unless you loathe gambling, if you stop in a casino and you start gambling, it’s really easy to lose track of time, though the 51 hours you cite is rather extreme.  Then again, most if not all records are an extreme of one form or another, for good or ill.

While I ended up with something else (way better), yeah, always fun what you do come across.  Casinos are designed to help you lose track of the time, to keep playing.  First time to Vegas, I intended to gamble, but was actually put off by all the glitz, so I didn’t.  Opted for a show instead & the star trek experience.

All things considered I think you made the better choice. Last time I went in if it wasn’t for my phone alarm I set before hand I’d been there for more than a couple hours.

Ha! Yes! Doooo itttt! 

Off the top of my head, several ideas might help.

1. A swamp cooler – basically uses evaporation cooling, useful in a desert-like environment, not sure if it’d be enough for the 46C case.
2. Geothermal heating/cooling – though installation would cost

Now, wish this one was commercialized, it’d be perfect. Heard about it being demo’d in a DC science fair from a friend who went.  Solar based A/C, uses bromine as the working fluid, and sunlight to drive the cycle instead of the usual electric compressor.  It’d be perfect for your case, TBH, and for lots of people.  (I mean, if the sun’s not shining, you generally don’t need the A/C as much.)

I’ve looked into evaporative coolers.  They can work well if you live in desert-like levels of low humidity.  It does get like that here sometimes, but it also gets humid here as well, and evaporative coolers massively add to the humidity levels in your home. 

I’ve never heard of geothermal heating/cooling even being available anywhere here, nor could I find evidence of it being available here, so my guess it’s not really an option here.

I appreciate the effort though!  But I’ve lived through 40-odd years of stupidly hot summers so I can make it though a few more.  It sure makes you appreciate the other seasons more! lol

I fear with climate change, the temperatures are only going to get worse.  (Want 56C?)  That’s where the solar A/C idea is better, wish somebody commercialized it.  See, all cooling takes energy to drive, which gets released as heat in addition to the heat it’s driving out of the box  – this is why the net effect of leaving the refrigerator open (as the Simpsons showed) is to raise the temperature, not reduce it.  The solar A/C I heard about, it was solar heat (not electricity) that was going to heat us up anyways, so capture it and use it to cool a box while we’re at it – way better than burning fossil fuels!  Not sure if it was more efficient than solar electric panel → conventional A/C or not, I’d need numbers to know.

Geothermal, see no reason why it shouldn’t work, efficiency depends on how stable the temperature underground is.  Energy for any heat pump (which A/C is, a heat pump in reverse) is dependent on the temperature difference, greater that difference, the more energy it takes to accomplish.  Thus, if the below ground is at, say 36C, it’d be way better to use that as a heat sink than the 46C air.

See, I paid (some) attention in my thermodynamics class eons ago! 

One unspoken option is to relocate...feel like building an underground bunker in the back garden?  There’s this video on youtube showing a guy doing just that.

That ain’t good!

Well, it’s good I have the generator option, small thing, enough to keep the fridge & computer (or CPAP) running.  But sucks to go out in the middle of the night to have to fire it up – at least I don’t bother putting the extension cords away, so they’re easy to pull into the house & plug things into.

Buying would be so much more fun if everything were free.

They should at least trick it out for you. A boiler really ought to have a flame job.

No spoilers now     Naked teenagers, indian burial ground, and truth or dare.  Also, I seem to be playing story tag bingo with this one.

Best kinda bingo, imho.

Story is now in LaTeX and I’m working on the revision.

omg! What are you gonna do?!