Anytime the inside temperature of the house gets over 85 deg F (as it did in our house today) before it's even June, it's clearly going to be a miserable summer. So, on arriving home (from my nice, air-conditioned office), I spent the next couple of hours figuring out how to put the air conditioner back into our bedroom window. We bought it two years ago, used it that summer, but never used it at all last summer. Consequently, a good part of that two hours was spent trying to remember how all the pieces went together. The fact that I had lost the instruction manual didn't help, either. Or maybe it did -- two years ago, I remember getting home with the A/C and realizing that we got the one with the all-Spanish instruction manual. Meredith is quite fluent in Spanish, but doesn't come across technical vocabulary so much, so even she had some problems with it.
But now, two hours later, the air conditioner is running in our bedroom. With luck, it will at least cool the room off so that we can actually sleep tonight.