The Net Monkey

This past Thursday — the day before Christmas Eve — the city received, in the wee hours of the morning, approximately 9 inches of snow throughout the entire metropolitan area. Later that morning, I ended up making it to the office, and then decided to leave after lunchtime, but not without getting my car out of the snow drift in to which I drove it.

After I came home I noticed that it was chilly in the house. I looked at the thermostat and it read 65 degrees. “Wonderful,” I thought. The guy who worked on it earlier this month warned me that it may not be able to keep up when the temperature outside dips below freezing. Well, he was right. I’m going to need a whole new furnace, so I scheduled the installation for today (Monday).

Since it was too cold to stay here comfortably, I ended up going to my parents house and sleeping there from Thursday through last night (Sunday). I’ve learned, unfortunately, that I can’t ever get a complete night’s rest while there. Too many things are happening, and too many people get up before dawn. Is this what I’ll end up doing when I reach my 50’s?

Anyway, the furnace was installed this afternoon, and it took about four hours to get the temperature inside the condo from 55 to 72 degrees. I’m quite happy with the new unit, and now this will be a non-issue when I decide to sell the place.