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16 March 2009

I HAVE HEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!→[More:]
That is all.

post by: loiseau at: 18:49 | 13 comments

Yay!

posted by special-k 16 March | 18:49

posted by sperose 16 March | 18:53

What was the problem? Did you find out?

posted by Ardiril 16 March | 18:59

posted by By the Grace of God 16 March | 19:02

I AM GOING TO TAKE A SHOWER THIS EVENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Next to the fusebox there is a panel with a comically large switch to turn on/off the power for the whole apartment. Inside *that* panel are two big cylindrical fuses, one of which was dead.)

posted by loiseau 16 March | 19:08

YAY!!!! Congrats!

posted by Stewriffic 16 March | 20:27

Woot!

posted by Hugh Janus 16 March | 21:44

oooh. i envy people who have that extra switch in the bathroom to turn on a heater so you don't step out of a nice warm shower into freeeeeeeeeeeezing air.

yay for heat!

(i am a wuss. yes.)

posted by casarkos 16 March | 22:28

"Next to the fusebox there is a panel with a comically large switch..."

Arrgghhh, if only I had had that detail before. I installed that configuration dozens of times when I was a teen. I feel like an idiot for not having thought of that possibility.

posted by Ardiril 16 March | 22:39

So I take it this is knowledge that cost you a few Benjamins to attain?

posted by stilicho 16 March | 23:35

Ardiril: guy.

I do have one big switch that's just on or off for all the power. It's next to the fusebox.

It cost me no Benjamins. It *did* cost me about a Laurier for a few new fuses that turned out to not be necessary. But the fuse that was responsible for the whole thing was covered by the landlord. (I doubt it cost much.)

posted by loiseau 17 March | 02:55

Thank Heavens!

I was just thinking about you... I was going to tell you it's past time to take it to the housing authority or whatever legal body it is that spanks asshole landlords.

And I'm so glad you are taking a shower! ('cuz, really it was sort of starting to get a little smelly in here.)

:)

posted by taz 17 March | 03:16

oooh. i envy people who have that extra switch in the bathroom to turn on a heater so you don't step out of a nice warm shower into freeeeeeeeeeeezing air.

my roommate uses a space heater for that. I'm a bath person, though, so when I get out the heat remains with me for a while. I like it "almost hot enough to boil a human alive" temperature.

posted by kellydamnit 17 March | 14:17

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