A Lazy Sunday...
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shadowkat1. It's a lovely day, crystal blue sky, barely a cloud drifting by, and a slight breeze in the air. I'm thinking seventies, although hard to tell. Where's that nasty storm they were predicting? No where in sight. Maybe it decided to skip us and drift out to sea after whomping Florida and the southeast?
Feeling a bit guilty for not frolicking in the day. It is sinfully beautiful out there. But, alas, I live in a city. And I want to be by myself. Wandering around said city is not conducive to that aim. Although, perhaps a long walk to and around Greenwood Cemetary might be in order? I think the park will be packed. I've been avoiding it all summer for that reason.
Decided to do the park afterall - mainly because I'd rather hear children playing and smell barbecue than stare at headstones. It was pleasant, not too crowded, with people evenly sparsed out here and there. Everyone was relaxed, happy, and polite. Speaking about a dozen different languages. I don't know why I need to travel elsewhere, I can pretty much soak up the cultures of about fifteen different countries without leaving my own neighborhood. Lots of kids on skateboards and dog walkers.
Also, quite a few people out in row boats on the lake, along with swans, geese, and ducks. I bought, an outrageously priced, cucumber mint lemonaide for $4. And meandered my way around the lake.
On the way back, I stopped by Walgreens, picked up few things (specifically 'Tyelnol Sinus + Headach' which to date is the only medication that appears to kick the sinus headach in the bud), and a mango lasse from a Bengali Street Food Truck. (You gotta love New York. Where else can you pick up a gluten-free strawberry rhurbarb pie, coconut ice cream, cucumber mint lemonaid and a mango lasse all in a five to six block radius?)
Was also feeling a bit guilty for not dragging my ass off to church this fine morning, instead I went to the farmer's market and bought the aforementioned gluten-free strawberry rhubarb pie, goat cheese, green beans/yellow wax beans, and raspberries (which must be in season). It was a lovely walk through Ditmas Park, which resembles Greenwich Village, Connecticut, except more down-to-earth, a heck of a lot more diverse and older trees. I hadn't slept well the night before -- my air conditioner for reasons that escape me, continues to bang at about 1 am in the morning. It does it for about two or three hours, then seems to stop. Does it bang at any other time? No. I'm beginning to think there's a ghost inside it and it just comes awake in the middle of the night. Or maybe a bug? Or someone is cleaning the gutters at 1 am in the morning? (I have a window air conditioner.) Also plagued with a sinus headache. So...I decided to sleep in and do the farmer's market instead. Church isn't really in session at any rate. The minister is on vacation and we basically have congregants doing their own little impromptu services.
So all told, did about 3 and a half miles of walking today. At least that's according to my cell phone. How accurate it is, I've no clue.
2.Being on the lazy side, saw a couple of flicks yesterday.
*All the Way - the HBO film based on the play about LBJ show-casing Bryan Cranston in the lead. It was slow. I kept going to sleep during it. And at one point was interrupted by a phone call. So lots of rewinding ensued.
The best part of it was the negotiation of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which lost the Democratic Party the South for about three decades.
Hubert: We won! Why aren't you happy?
LBG: The democratic party just lost the south for my life-time and most of yours, what is there to be happy about?
The South does not come out well in this movie, in particular white southerners. They are basically depicted as the villain in the movie. To the extent that I was rooting for a hurricane to come along and wipe them out.
LBJ: As a southerner and President of the US, I see it as my sworn duty to drag the South into the modern age. But they certainly won't thank me for it.
They didn't. Still bloody stupid and racist.
Three men go missing in Mississippi. Actually they aren't missing, the Mississippi sheriff's department kills them and burns their car. The news travels northward to LBJ, who is in the middle of an election year:
LBJ to Mississippi Governor: It's come to our attention that three men have gone missing in your jurisdiction.
Governor: Are they missing?
LBJ: According to this the sheriff picked them up, but when their friends went to bail them out -- they were gone.
Governor: According to our records he released them around midnight.
LBJ: Interesting, according to ours they never arrested them. So, here's the deal, this is the middle of an election year and I don't need this type of a head-ache. I'm going to have to have someone look into it -
Governor: Can you even do that -
LBJ: I can send the Federal Marshals and the army, which will make the news or you can have the FBI.
Governor: the FBI???
LBJ: Do you want me to send the Marshals and the army?
Governor: No, no..
LBJ: Right, I'm sending the FBI to look into it, just like you asked. (hangs up)
LBJ calls J Edgar Hoover with the FBI: J. Edgar, I need you to investigate the deaths of three men in Mississippi.
J.Edgar: But I don't think we have jurisdiction -
LBJ: Don't care, if you don't want to do it - I can call Alan Dulles, Eastman was pushing me to go that route anyhow -
J'Edgar: No, not the CIA! It's our turf, not theirs!
LBJ: You sure? Because I sort of promised Eastman that I'd let Dulles agency handle it -
J'Edgar: No! We'll do it. I'll send a team right away. It's a FBI matter.
LBJ: Okay, I'll take care of Eastman.
Hangs up.
Hubert: What are you are going to tell Eastman?
LBJ: Oh I made that stuff up. Eastman doesn't know anything about it.
Hubert: You lied to the FBI?
LBJ: There's three soverigns here, the United States, the State of Mississippi and J. Edgar Hoover.
LOL!
It's worth watching just for that exchange. Then go rent "Mississippi Burning" for the FBI's investigation into the matter. Warning Southern White Folks don't come out well in either movie. You sort of want to condemn them to twenty years hard labor.
* A Walk in the Woods - based on the book by Bill Bryson, which I read for a book club back in the 1990s, I think. Can't remember when I read it. The book was charming, and so is the movie. I liked the book better, but that's hardly surprising. I think Redford and Nick Nolte may have been too old for the roles. Bryson and Katz were in their 60s, Redford is now 80 and Nolte is 75. But whatever, it's still a tale about two old coots attempting to hike the Applauchian Trail. Emma Thompson is married to Redford aka Bryson. Who, well, Redford is basically Redford in every movie that he is in, and yes, he's aged well. Also quite spry. Not as spry as Dick Van Dyke, but then nobody is.
Feeling a bit guilty for not frolicking in the day. It is sinfully beautiful out there. But, alas, I live in a city. And I want to be by myself. Wandering around said city is not conducive to that aim. Although, perhaps a long walk to and around Greenwood Cemetary might be in order? I think the park will be packed. I've been avoiding it all summer for that reason.
Decided to do the park afterall - mainly because I'd rather hear children playing and smell barbecue than stare at headstones. It was pleasant, not too crowded, with people evenly sparsed out here and there. Everyone was relaxed, happy, and polite. Speaking about a dozen different languages. I don't know why I need to travel elsewhere, I can pretty much soak up the cultures of about fifteen different countries without leaving my own neighborhood. Lots of kids on skateboards and dog walkers.
Also, quite a few people out in row boats on the lake, along with swans, geese, and ducks. I bought, an outrageously priced, cucumber mint lemonaide for $4. And meandered my way around the lake.
On the way back, I stopped by Walgreens, picked up few things (specifically 'Tyelnol Sinus + Headach' which to date is the only medication that appears to kick the sinus headach in the bud), and a mango lasse from a Bengali Street Food Truck. (You gotta love New York. Where else can you pick up a gluten-free strawberry rhurbarb pie, coconut ice cream, cucumber mint lemonaid and a mango lasse all in a five to six block radius?)
Was also feeling a bit guilty for not dragging my ass off to church this fine morning, instead I went to the farmer's market and bought the aforementioned gluten-free strawberry rhubarb pie, goat cheese, green beans/yellow wax beans, and raspberries (which must be in season). It was a lovely walk through Ditmas Park, which resembles Greenwich Village, Connecticut, except more down-to-earth, a heck of a lot more diverse and older trees. I hadn't slept well the night before -- my air conditioner for reasons that escape me, continues to bang at about 1 am in the morning. It does it for about two or three hours, then seems to stop. Does it bang at any other time? No. I'm beginning to think there's a ghost inside it and it just comes awake in the middle of the night. Or maybe a bug? Or someone is cleaning the gutters at 1 am in the morning? (I have a window air conditioner.) Also plagued with a sinus headache. So...I decided to sleep in and do the farmer's market instead. Church isn't really in session at any rate. The minister is on vacation and we basically have congregants doing their own little impromptu services.
So all told, did about 3 and a half miles of walking today. At least that's according to my cell phone. How accurate it is, I've no clue.
2.Being on the lazy side, saw a couple of flicks yesterday.
*All the Way - the HBO film based on the play about LBJ show-casing Bryan Cranston in the lead. It was slow. I kept going to sleep during it. And at one point was interrupted by a phone call. So lots of rewinding ensued.
The best part of it was the negotiation of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which lost the Democratic Party the South for about three decades.
Hubert: We won! Why aren't you happy?
LBG: The democratic party just lost the south for my life-time and most of yours, what is there to be happy about?
The South does not come out well in this movie, in particular white southerners. They are basically depicted as the villain in the movie. To the extent that I was rooting for a hurricane to come along and wipe them out.
LBJ: As a southerner and President of the US, I see it as my sworn duty to drag the South into the modern age. But they certainly won't thank me for it.
They didn't. Still bloody stupid and racist.
Three men go missing in Mississippi. Actually they aren't missing, the Mississippi sheriff's department kills them and burns their car. The news travels northward to LBJ, who is in the middle of an election year:
LBJ to Mississippi Governor: It's come to our attention that three men have gone missing in your jurisdiction.
Governor: Are they missing?
LBJ: According to this the sheriff picked them up, but when their friends went to bail them out -- they were gone.
Governor: According to our records he released them around midnight.
LBJ: Interesting, according to ours they never arrested them. So, here's the deal, this is the middle of an election year and I don't need this type of a head-ache. I'm going to have to have someone look into it -
Governor: Can you even do that -
LBJ: I can send the Federal Marshals and the army, which will make the news or you can have the FBI.
Governor: the FBI???
LBJ: Do you want me to send the Marshals and the army?
Governor: No, no..
LBJ: Right, I'm sending the FBI to look into it, just like you asked. (hangs up)
LBJ calls J Edgar Hoover with the FBI: J. Edgar, I need you to investigate the deaths of three men in Mississippi.
J.Edgar: But I don't think we have jurisdiction -
LBJ: Don't care, if you don't want to do it - I can call Alan Dulles, Eastman was pushing me to go that route anyhow -
J'Edgar: No, not the CIA! It's our turf, not theirs!
LBJ: You sure? Because I sort of promised Eastman that I'd let Dulles agency handle it -
J'Edgar: No! We'll do it. I'll send a team right away. It's a FBI matter.
LBJ: Okay, I'll take care of Eastman.
Hangs up.
Hubert: What are you are going to tell Eastman?
LBJ: Oh I made that stuff up. Eastman doesn't know anything about it.
Hubert: You lied to the FBI?
LBJ: There's three soverigns here, the United States, the State of Mississippi and J. Edgar Hoover.
LOL!
It's worth watching just for that exchange. Then go rent "Mississippi Burning" for the FBI's investigation into the matter. Warning Southern White Folks don't come out well in either movie. You sort of want to condemn them to twenty years hard labor.
* A Walk in the Woods - based on the book by Bill Bryson, which I read for a book club back in the 1990s, I think. Can't remember when I read it. The book was charming, and so is the movie. I liked the book better, but that's hardly surprising. I think Redford and Nick Nolte may have been too old for the roles. Bryson and Katz were in their 60s, Redford is now 80 and Nolte is 75. But whatever, it's still a tale about two old coots attempting to hike the Applauchian Trail. Emma Thompson is married to Redford aka Bryson. Who, well, Redford is basically Redford in every movie that he is in, and yes, he's aged well. Also quite spry. Not as spry as Dick Van Dyke, but then nobody is.
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Date: 2016-09-06 09:56 am (UTC)[ Open appliance-repair-tech-back-in-the-70s/80s mode ] :
Probably not of too much value this late in the cooling season, but what kind of banging noise is it making? I'm assuming from what you wrote that it's a continuing, rapid-fire noise, like bap-bap-bap-bap-bap-bap-bap, as if the fan blade is hitting something?
Because-- if so, it probably is. The reason it might start this in the middle of the night is that if the air conditioner's case is racked or twisted just a bit, and the interior clearances between the fan blade and the fan shroud are tight, temperature changes as it gets cooler at night would contract the parts and what wasn't touching, now is.
Fixing this would normally involve taking the unit out of the window, removing the case, and seeing if the above-described sitch is what's happening, but if you can do it without dropping the thing out the window, try twisting the case a bit, or take the AC out of the window and put it back in again in a slightly different position to see if that makes the noise go away.
[ Close aging appliance tech mode ]
Hope this might help.
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