the toils of being a home owner
by Tony Peters on February 12, 2008
just when you think that everything is groovy boom your furnace burps blowing all the seals and well $6000 later you can have heat again. Mind you it was 12degrees yesterday when this happened and at present I can't keep my house any hotter than 55degree's or the house fills with smoke...not to mention that the soonest I can get a new furnace installed is thursday. We were planning on a pellet stove to reduce the amount of oil we were burning but as it turns out we were buring so much oil because our furnace was on it's last legs. So much for snowboarding the rest of the winter...I guess I'll have to make do with skateboarding when the weather is nice
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Jackie Mason | February 13, 2008
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Tony Peters | February 14, 2008
As much as I understand I can't live without real cold weather and I am loath to deal with actual hot A/C required weather. I will always prefer to be cold over hot. As for the furnace we knew buying the house that the furnace was the week point, both my parents and my bother had to replace a Burnham boiler. Suffice it to say we are not Burnham repeat customers. The biggest bummer is that our heat is steam not hot water which means a much more expensive boiler though much more efficient and effective heat and hotwater when it's functioning properly. When they removed the old furnace this morning it was gross both in the burner chamber with it's rotted seals and in the boiler with its rusted tank. it's about halfway done and I still have no water or heat in the house but I have prepared tonights Valentine dinner of "Pot Roasted Poussins agro dolce" from Cook with Jamie...
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got a new drug
2 weeks ago I sold my BMX cruiser with the intention of shedding a toy to buy a bike better suited to commuting to work, at one time I rode a racebike and i really wanted to start riding one again except with the simplicity that I enjoyed on my cruiser....so I bought a fixxed gear, no not going through a mid life crisis I have ridden a fixxed gear before and I know what's involved, it arrived last friday and after a scramble to assemble it (and switch the brakes to motostyle) I rode it to work, I have ridden to work every day for the last week (because it only rains on my day off) and my legs are just starting to adjust I have aches in places I haven't felt in years but I feel better and judging by the way my pants feel I'm sure I'm starting to look healthier too. No riding a fixie is not for everybody, I have people who give me terrified looks when they realize what I'm riding but it works for me and thats what is important, besides when the weather is nice I can leave after work and ride down to the beach and back on a 20 mile loop and still get home in time to make dinner for my wife and I. Go »change 2
well I got to work this morning and I got my holiday break back...it seems that our money guys don't want to pay to have 2 groups of people traipsing around the med at roughly the same time soooooo...they want one team to fly from end to end and then back again over a three week period and it's probably gonna end up costing as much if not more than it would for 2 teams to but and here is the part that sucks for me it'll cost less this year, and we are broke this year, Jan 1 starts are next batch of money...so Go »Change 3
a 07:30 phone call saying ooppsss uimmmm well it turns out that you are gonna have to go after all and we are gonna have to send 2 teams is not that way I wanted to start the day. Neither is sweet talking the travel clerk who's day we ruined yesterday to redo all the work she did yesterday....however other than cancelling my New Years plans, a ride with my dad and a climb with my brother, this on again off again travel thing isn't too much of a burden. Go »awaiting surgery
I went into work yesterday...getting through the security turnstile that has replace the front doors of my building was more effort than I was expecting. The Elevator was not restful and when I finally did get to my office someone stole my heater (my office is so cold in the spring/summer/fall that an electric heater is required or icicles form from your breath (this isn't a joke). Go »Under water and leeching
yesterdays rains have lead to a flooded power station, 24 hours of no power, a river that looks like class 6 rapids and me sitting in the parking lot of my local Midas drinking DnD coffee and leeching Wifi trying to find out if I've got school this afternoon.....I hope we have power by tonight I would really like to cook diner instead of take out again. Go »
Amy Austin | February 13, 2008
And this is why I long to be back in the South again!