If you were having coffee with me I would welcome to you my corner of the internet and wish I could offer you some ice, its been rather hot this side of the world.
Some iced coffee or just even plain water with ice would snap right now. If you think about it ice cubes in cold water are kinda hard core.. imagine chilling in a bathtub full of your own blood ^_^ Don’t mind me, its its Halloween season so I have been watching some scary movies. 👻 I could really use some ice right now.
If you were having coffee with me I would ask if you remember about our electricity situation with the constant power outages, I suspect our good ol trusty chest freezer is collateral damage in the battle for loadshedding.
Now even though the freezer is running…. (if your freezer is running you better put on some shoes and run after it) anyway, even though it is running, it doesn’t get very cold. I hired a technician I saw on a lamp post to come fix it…
The man took one look at the fridge’s innards rattled some pipes and announced that this is what was dead (see image below) According to him; this filter is what converts the oil from the compressor into ice crystals which make the freezer freeze.
Before I could actually ask him to explain that again because I clearly wasn’t buying it, he had already cut off the offending part and replaced it with a new one then proceeded to top up the refrigerant in the compressor with what he called AfriGas when I asked what type of gas he was adding. Before you say that’s what you get for getting an unaccredited fridge repairmen I must point out that the fridge did get a bit colder… for a couple of days … and of course not anymore.
If you were having coffee with me, I would ask if you have any experience in fridge repairs or ever dealt with repairmen who tried feeding you lines of nonsense while doing very dodgy repairs, I once hired this electrician who turned out to be colour blind ….. yeah that was a very shocking experience.
If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that in the downtime between waiting for electricity to come back, I made an interesting “discovery” that if I plug in a mouse to my android phone via the OTG adapter… It actually works.
Don’t ask what led to this discovery, I will just call it professional curiosity…. Oh and a USB keyboard works as well… I am tempted to use a USB Splitter and then cast to a TV and pretend I am using a desktop.
The power utility says that the current power outages are not due to loadshedding but instead caused by the wind resulting in faults. I was somewhat skeptical of this, but I have just witnessed a gust of wind causing the powerlines to get all tangled up resulting in a firework display and the power’s gone…. Again.
I called the power utility to report a fault and they said OK, didn’t even ask my address though ^_^ I have doubts about the electricity coming back soon.
Whats happening in your neck of the woods?
~B
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