One of the steam return pipes on our oil burner rusted through and blew up tonight. Feh. We have heat, but at low pressure. Hopefully the repair guys will show up early tomorrow and apply some pipe wrap to limp us through until we do a full system replacement. I’m assuming we’re looking at upwards of $10k for a full burner replacement. At least Kelly’s parents said they’d help us out when the time came.
Well, the time has come.
The past week has been horribly dry and static shocks have become more and more common. You know the scene from Office Space where Peter walks up to the front door of the facility, gingerly reaches out to the door handle, then gets a massive shock? Yeah…just like that. But worse. I actually got shocked from touching a plastic cover that was sitting on my desk!
That’s right. A hunk of plastic sitting on a pressboard desk. Oh, yeah, that conducts electricity! Fer chrissake…