Do you know what the day is? It's the day after Labor Day. Wow. Everybody needs to go to school today, right?
Could remember? Are you old enough to remember this that school would start the day after Labor Day? That was always the first day of school. Not anymore.
School started over a month ago, but we're gonna talk about this. So I'm having an exciting adventure. My air conditioner went out two days ago. Just died.
I've been, I had somebody out to try and fix it. I found out there was no fixing it, that it was dead. It was dead, Jim. I mean, it was just, it's dead.
So then I went about looking to replace it. And I have gone through all kinds of things trying to save money because that's what I do. And I found a guy that was going to sell me a used unit and come and install it for $1,500. And then he goes to me.
So bottom line is I dealt with one of my real estate investors, great guy by the name of Rex, who has a guy who's been put in over 20 or 30 units for him. And I, you know, gave me his number and said, tell him I sent you. I texted the guy, told him, Rex sent me the next thing, you know, boom goes to dynamite. I get a really good price.
And he's, you know, that's going to start tomorrow. But in meantime, last night, it was 90 degrees in house and I slept had a ceiling fan going. Tonight, it is 90 degrees in house. It's been raining.
So the humidity. And I got to suffer through tonight and hopefully, hopefully, tomorrow, after several thousand dollars, I will have a brand new central air condition unit. Now, when we moved to Florida in 1964, nobody had air conditioning where we moved. We moved to this tiny little town called Hernando, Florida, not Hernando County, Hernando, Florida, little town north of Invernus, Florida.
And we rented a house because we were going to build a house. We had bought lots there and we bought waterfront lots on like Lake Salpaca. And so we rented a house that was in the woods kind of off of state road 200. And it was the summertime and there was no air conditioning.
And we had one fan and it was pure misery. It was pure misery. And we could not take it. We moved out of there and moved to a goat farm nearby rented a house on a goat farm that was wide open and breezy, no air conditioning, but wide open and breezy.
We then made the important decision not to stay there. And the lots that we had bought, dad put them on the market for sale. And we moved to West Central Florida on the West Coast of Florida in 1965 in a brand new house that was custom built for us, had a swimming pool, had everything. And you know what else it had?
Central air conditioning and my dad kept it at 70. And it was cold, but it was wonderful. And I have had central air conditioning ever since. And for the life of me cannot figure out.
Now I take that back. I knew a girl named Mary Jane, who worked for, she worked for the horticulture, the Extension Service. And she left that job and went down to Palmetto, Florida to work for a very large lawn care company. And I went down to visit her.
And she was renting a house out in the middle of nowhere that had an attic fan and open windows in the middle of the summer. And the house was halfway bearable. We went down there, a bunch of us went down there and had dinner. And it was halfway bearable, not totally bearable, but halfway bearable.
And I said, better you than me. And you know, back we came to my nice air conditioned home. And I've always had central air conditioning. And I have it in this house, except my unit was 20 years old and it died.
I was hoping to get another couple of years out of it, but it died. So now it will be replaced by a brand new one. And that will be wonderful. But you know, houses, there are some houses, what was the former attorney general under Bill Clinton, nice lady, drove a red Ford ranger.
And her house down in Southwest Florida is on a, like a little inlet and she doesn't have, or didn't have air conditioning in that house. But she had attic fans and jealousy windows. And I remember when we moved to Florida, jealousy windows were the thing that was air conditioning, man, you cranked those things out. And that was air conditioning.
Everybody had them. No, don't want to deal with that anymore. I am so, you know, I will be so happy tomorrow. I've got to get to another night tonight.
Stick with me. I hope I make it. I'm reasonably sure I will. But at least I got the windows open now.
I'd never open the windows on this house, but I got the windows open and the ceiling fans going and the Dyson fan going. And a friend brought over one of those fans that the companies use to dry carpets. And that blows air around reasonably well. So I am hoping for the best and I am grateful for all that I have.
And I am grateful that I was able to finally put this thing together. And tomorrow, the good Lord willing and the creek don't rise. We'll have air conditioning again. And it's a brand new unit and it should last me the rest of my life.
I mean, how much longer can I go without air conditioning? Not much longer. I'm here to tell you, not much longer. Oh, well, have a terrific day.
Put the kids back in school today. I miss that. Oh, well, see you tomorrow. Hey, I'm going everybody, Sarasota Tim coming to you from beautiful Sarasota, the downtown area right here at the foot of the