While I'm complaining...

[beowabbit]

Well, I figured out why the house (the first floor, anyway) has been so cold lately. I'd assumed it was just really cold outside (which it is), and the furnace wasn't keeping up. But the furnace is in fact not coming on. Dunno why; it's got water in it. Something clicks when I turn up the thermostat. The stove has gas. But no heat. I vaguely remember something like this happening once before and there being some magic button to push or something. Oh, well; I'll deal with it later - I've got a space-heater in the office and a nice toasty waterbed to sleep in. For now, off to have a nice hot breakfast and a look at the newspaper. (Hmmm, looking at the newspaper. Well, that will give me more to complain about, anyway...)

PS - And Livejournal suggests, among others, "waterbirds", "wardrobed", and "Waterbury" for "waterbed".

Comments

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Well, may I recommend becoming a sponsor for the Lesbian Breeding Plan?

Brrr...

[fallenpegasus]

The winter I was living in Roslindale, the furnace went out. On one of the coldest weeks of the year. The repair guy's order book was backed up for days, so I and mine and our cats would come home from school and work, and just spend all day huddled in the bed for warmth.

Good luck.

Re: Brrr...

[beowabbit]

Thanks. Since I (1) have spaceheaters sufficient to heat the rooms I use (not even all that inefficiently, even), and (2) have a nice toasty bed to sleep in even without heating my bedroom, I'm not so worried about that. The car is a bigger deal at the moment. I'm pretty sure it's actually the fuel filter. And I was delighted to find a replacement fuel filter in the trunk. I was somewhat less delighted, on prying it out of the frozen box it was in, to find ice on the inside of it. I'm debating just letting it dry out really thoroughly and seeing if I can find someplace I can get to on the T to get another one.

Re: Brrr...

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

THere's an auto parts store about 5-10 minutes from your house, on Cross St (I think). Left at end of Converse, take the right at the light (first right after Medford). Down about half a block, maybe?, place is on the right. Can't remember if they have fuel filters (I was looking for light plugs), but they had a variety of basic sorts of things.