Though you young punks may find it difficult to believe that this geezer who only in the past year has purchased both a cell phone and an MP3 player, I was an early adopter of the internet. Heck, thanks for BigDork I even used Google back when it was Beta (and wasn't cooperating with Communist China or protecting pedophiles).
So after the usual years of "golly gee there's lots of fun time wasting stuff out there" you get to the point where it's just a resource, replacing that old fashioned library.
Case in point: Last night I went down into the basement and the furnace sounded... funny. A bit more exploration and I find that the AC refrigerant line is frozen up with frost all over it. YIKES! Visions of thousands of non-existant dollars leaping out of my bank account spring into my mind. In the olden days of even fifteen years ago you'd have to make some phone calls and wake up repairmen or wait until the library opened and grab a dozen books on air conditioners and spend an hour or so leafing through them to find what you want. No more! In a matter of five minutes I was able to find the name of the frozen line (the refrigerant line... yeah, makes sense but often these things are called something like the Howitzer Return Feed) and how to fix the problem. I also found plans to turn my AC unit into an ice cream factory and/or nuclear refining facility.
I had the same experience when I replaced the sprayer thingamajiggy on my kitchen faucet. There were a couple web sites that I found through Google that helped me out quite a bit. You'd think that replacing the hose and sprayer would be an easy thing--nope. As for Google, I was a beta Google user, too.
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Your AC unit can make ice cream?!?!?! When can I come over?
ReplyDeleteOh, and you have a cell phone? Wow.
ReplyDeleteI have a cell phone, yes, but I rarely turn it on and don't even know my number. I RAWK!
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