Yesterday was miserable in my apartment. I was exhausted from a lack of sleep, but had to stay awake because I had to see that the air conditioner got fixed. It was not negotiable. The poor guy they sent to fix it barely knew what to do, but, after almost three hours worth of running around like a coked-up monkey, he finally got it to work for me. I am very grateful.
You can't live in Texas from May through September without an air conditioner. It was a pretty nice May, to tell the truth, but it's already pushing a hundred degrees every day now, and with the humidity, it is simply nasty.
I'll never know how the old timers made it through Augusts in Texas. Probably lots of visits to the swimming holes and staying in the shade. But it's just wretched without an air conditioner.