Have you ever seen the Karate Kid? Not the crappy remake with little Will Smith and Jackie Chan, the original one, you know, Daniel son, Mr. Myagi, wax on wax off...? My favorite part of that movie is when Daniel gets sick of doing all the crappy work on Mr. Myagi's house and is about to storm off. Mr. Myagi tells him to shut up and had him show off everything he learned. Come to found out, Daniel had been learning karate the whole time, and after an onslaught of fists and kicks, Daniel realizes that everything he has been doing paid off. Love that movie.
Anyways, I had an air conditioning issue at the Mission today, so I had to head down early to try to avoid the heat. That didn't happen. When I got there, the thing was frozen solid. I climbed the ladder to get on the roof and turned the condensing unit off. I climbed back down and decided to take the expansion valve apart to see if it was clogged.( I'll try not to get anymore technical, hahaha). In order to do that, I need several pieces of equipment to pump the freon out of the system and take the thing apart. So my helper and I went downstairs to the van and to get everything. I grabbed my gauges and threw them over my shoulder, grabbed my toolbag which weighs about 40 pounds, the recovery machine which weighs about 30 pounds, and a jug of freon which weighs about 30 pounds and headed into the building. I walked through the building up the stairs and to the roof access. My helper followed with a few pieces of equipment as well. When we got the access I asked him if he wanted to hand stuff up to me or if he wanted to get on the roof and pull it up after I handed it to me. He choose the roof, so he got up there and I lifted each piece of equipment over my head, up the ladder, and to him.
After enduring the heat and pumping the system down, we came off the roof and dismantled the unit. We blew the lines out and did more inspecting. I found the lines were clear, but the unit inside was filthy again. I just cleaned it a month ago. So I dismantled all the shelving underneath the unit and since it was such a tight space, I stepped up on some milk crates to dismantle the unit further so I could get to the coils. Up and down on the milk crates, taken it apart piece by piece, then the coil was exposed. Up and down on the milk crates, cleaning it with a wire brush, vacuuming it, spraying it down, then putting it back together. Back up the ladder to pull a vacuum, then I handed down the equipment to my helper. I added some freon to the system and got it running correctly, then down the ladder, picked up all the equipment and carried it down to the van.
Then it hit me. I had my Mr. Myagi moment.
I had been up and down stairs, carrying heavy equipment, baking in the sun, climbing up and down ladders, up and down on milk crates in some of the most uncomfortable standing positions you could imagine, and at 4:19 in the afternoon, I wasn't tired. I wasn't hurting. I could probably do it all again right now if I had too. Why is that? All the cardio, elliptical, leg exercises, squats, all this stuff I constantly talk about doing in the gym has paid off in my day to day life. Usually after a day like today, I would come home whining about all the stuff I had to do or I would just have my helper do it all and wear him out. Today, I did it with him, and when I got home, I went shopping with Pam. So I can't wait to see Ty and tell him about it all and I might even thank the Assassin for all the work he has made me do.
Now if they would only teach me an exercise to make yard work easier...
Awesome!
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