New Air Conditioner

We bought a new air conditioner tonight. There were 4 reasons, really. #1 - I have yet to set up the swamp cooler properly. #2 - Even with the swamp cooler, our back room gets a little warm near the end of the evening. #3 - We break 100 degrees this weekend. #4 - Tara really doesn't want to sit in the house and bake all day. (There is AC in my office, or at least a swamp cooler for the building that gets it to the point where it and the fan on my desk make the day bearible.)

Anyhow, the fan to the left is for the night, when it cools off at night, we like to get the house as cool as possible. This helps get through a good chunk of the day without needing to cool it off. Between it and the swamp cooler (which right now is just a giant fan), the house can get nice and cool by morning. The plan is to pull the fan out of the window in the morning and close it, then when it starts warming up, turn on the AC. We'll see how it works, and maybe this weekend I will get up there and hook up the water to the swamp cooler.