OK, for the first time since the fall of '08...

...my car has air-conditioning.  I'm too overcome with emotion to wax poetic. And I think I found an honest mechanic.  He basically had carte blanche to rip me off for a condenser and instead just replaced some relatively inexpensive electronic components and voila... Not even an arm and a leg. Not even an arm, even. Like...half a wrist...maybe. Maybe just a wrist-bone....