A bit has happened in the last week or so.
As previously mentioned, the missus has a hip replacement Monday last week, came home on Thursday and is doing really well.
Last Tuesday, on my way in to see her, I didn’t see a cyclist at an uncontrolled T-Junction (no give way, stop sign or lines) and hit her, knocking her off her bike. Called an ambulance straight away and they arrived in a couple of mins, luckily the cyclist was in a bit of shock but no other injuries. I only saw her at the last fraction of a second, slammed on the brakes and steered hard left, scraping the wheels hard on the curb (which was a really high
). Thankfully car took the hard hit and not the cyclist.
The cop who attended was great, he said I did everything right after not initially seeing the cyclist, including how I called the ambulance and stayed with the cyclist, and the way I manhandled the car away from her. He called me a couple of days later and said he’ll just issue a driving infringement instead of having to attend court.
So, I could have killed someone but luckily didn’t and they’re OK.
Also as previously mentioned, on Saturday, I noticed that the aircon controller wasn’t on, so thought that maybe a rodent had eaten through the comms cable from the indoor unit in the roof to the controller. Anyway, checked a few things on the day, but decided that it was out of my league and would call a tech to investigate.
On Sunday, I thought, faark it, I spent a few hours investigating and checking all power circuits and runs from the mains board to the outdoor unit and then to the indoor unit. Narrowed it down to the indoor unit PCB, so disconnected it and removed from the unit. Inspected and found a burnt solder joint where the power feed comes in. So ordered a new PCB, which arrived today, installed and plugged it in and now have a working aircon again.
Also on Sunday, after spending all those hours investigating the aircon issues, it was late and I had to swap wheels around on my car as the front left tyre had a large chuck taken out the sidewall from the accident, for an early Monday appt to get the damage assessed. After putting on the spare and rotating a couple of wheels, went to the nearest servo to check all tyre pressures. My missus had gone to bed whilst I was out so turned off the TV, etc. when I got back, I went turn the TV on, but nothing. Checked the power board and no life.
As I had a long day and the lights were on, it took me a little time to realise the circuit in the family room had tripped. So checked the meter board and confirmed that it had. Flicked it back on and after a few seconds, tripped again. Spent the next 30 mins going back and forth, unplugging one appliance at a time to determine the culprit.
Finally deduced that it was the main fridge. Plugged it into a different circuit and it tripped that one, so confirmed that the fridge was dead. At 20 years and no end of trouble, there was no way that I was going to try to fix it. Spend the next morning with the missus to agree on a replacement, then ordered it for a next day delivery.
Had to pull out the built-in overhead cupboards as the cavity height was too small for any decent size fridge. Seemingly when we built 34 years ago, fridges were different sizes back then.
Spent this morning emptying the fridge and freezer, and decided to rebuild the overhead cupboards by removing 80mm in height. Installed them literally minutes before the new fridge arrived and the old one taken away to be never seen again.
Phew, I’m rooted now … nothing else better faarking break!
