central air and bananas

Today I learned that if your central air conditioner's blower motor starts sounding ill at around 11 am, if you already know how to get the blower out (from that time you had to wipe the previous resident's powder makeup off it), you can pull it, whack the impeller off the shaft, buy another motor, eat lunch, talk on the phone, and put it all back together in just about four hours. When we turned the AC back on at 3:15, the temperature indoors had risen from 80 to 86 ^oF. Shortly after the fan came on, all the air that had been resting comfortably in the ducts in the attic came down and raised the temperature to 87 ^oF, and then the AC stayed on for roughly four hours to get the temperature back down to 80 ^oF. I think I learned that it's more energy efficient to keep the AC on when you're not home, but that could just be because I keep my house at 80 ^oF, and this time of year, a standard high for the day is something like 106 ^oF.

In banana news, wild bananas look weird (and sometimes purple), and if you did something to the sand that passes for dirt around here, you could grow your own.