How do you feel about air conditioning?

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14. Have a 5000 BTU window unit in our computer room for those days when the

computers try to cook us and themselves. (It's a 10 x 12 room, so it doesn't take long with 3 or 4 computers running to heat up. Good in winter, bad in summer.) Right now the A/C is off. Won't really need it until this afternoon when the sun hits this side of the house.

The rest of the house I keep the windows closed until sundown, at which time it gets cooler outside than inside. I close them again at sunrise. We use ceiling fans and occasionally floor circulating fans to cool things down. If it gets too warm in the middle of the day, I can open the door to the basement and put the air mover over there and aim the cooler air at the ceiling fan in the living room. Overall it's been a good system, but we also have been very lucky in that our temps have been in the high 70s low 80s during the day and high 50s low 60s at night. The high humidity days can be a pain, but that's when I retreat to the computer room.