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oh, that's the SEER rating
Saturday, December 23 2023
I got a lot more done on the spec project I've been working on, which has definitely reached the point where I feel compelled to work on it, sometimes as procrastination for other things it might be better for me to be doing.
Late this morning, though, after the usual Saturday morning routine in the living room involving coffee and Spelling Bee, I started unpacking the mini-split on a pallet out in the garage. At some point I noticed that there were two SEER values on a yellow label on the side of the device, one for air conditioning and one for heating. And the one for air conditioning was a lot higher (21.5) than the other (11.4). I'd only seen that one in the description of the unit and, knowing it to be a measure of efficiency, had been impressed, since it was the highest SEER rating I'd seen. That I had been the main reason I'd bought it. But if that just measures the cooling efficiency, and I never intend to use it to cool, then maybe I'd bought the wrong mini-split. I then looked on the documentation and packing materials for any indication that the device at least was Energy Star listed, and I couldn't even find that! Was I going crazy? I went back to the website I'd bought the unit from, and there Energy Star branding was emblazoned all over the device (as well as mentioned multiple times in the description). Perhaps I'd fallen victim to a bait-and-switch. This wouldn't surprise me; my obsession with scams of various sorts has me expecting the worst from anyone I do business with online. So I opened a trouble ticket asking the manufacturer whether or not the mini-split I'd bought was in fact Energy Star listed.
Tonight as I was lying in bed, Gretchen joined me and I put my left around her head to snuggle (since that seemed to be the best place for it). But my left arm is my "bad" arm, the one whose shoulder joint has really been bothering me since about mid-Fall (after having been injured by a fall down the stairs back in late July). Shortly after I did this, Gretchen moved her head backwards. She didn't even do it especially hard, but it applied a torque in a painful direction to my shoulder assembly, and I told her to stop. She hadn't been aware that my arm was still causing me trouble (since it's rare that I do something with it that causes much pain). She asked rhetorically "What are we going to do about your arm?" I said I'd been hoping it would heal on its own, and she said, "But it's been a long time." It's true, it has been. Between possibly being scammed with the mini-split and the realization that my arm is probably going to continue to be a real problem unless I do something about it, I fell asleep in something of a demoralized state.
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