I got - steam heat

Sort of. Our furnace is working, but has been taking a lot of water lately. It turns out the water gage isn't working - so we have no clue how high or low it is (until the water gets low, and the furnace shuts itself off as a safety precaution). In the meantime we'll just need to keep filling to make sure there is enough in there.

Brian's calling a plumber when he gets up, since it was too early to do it at 6:00 AM when I discovered said lack of heat. For future reference, though Nstar does send out plumbers (as Brian and I learned in the past in Framingham), Keyspan doesn't (we did call them at 6:00 AM). Its a good thing we've got 2 names on hand to call (the business card for the guy that installed the furnace a couple of years ago, and a guy we used in Framingham a few years ago who does a lot of work in Newton, so presumably he'd come to Waltham, a friend of Vinny's).

In other news, we should be hitting Dark Sky tonight.

heat fixed

From Brian:

"the plumber called back, looked up the furnace, and had me check out the
water guage. the 2 red knobs are supposed to be open/counterclockwise. the top one was closed. as soon as i opened it, the water returned to a "normal" place. he said to watch it for a week or so and see if things were behaving as we'd expect now, and give them a call if it wasn't working right."

Awesome!

Sometimes, you just gotta laugh

About an hour ago I discovered there is a hole in my pants. It the butt of my pants. They zip up the back and the hole is about 2" under the zipper.

At least its a good thing I wore black underwear today (same color as the pants).

Time for lunch and not looking at my computer for a while :)

Want

http://www.bttfparts.com/tsf2004/DSC00117.JPG

(not really, since I think it would take up our entire living room - still, it would be cool to see up close)