The day before yesterday, I could “feel” the cold from outside trying to access me. This is not uncommon in the winter. Often, a change in humidity will make me feel colder. In response, I pulled on a long-sleeved shirt and carried on.
I felt a little chill again as
I prepped for crawling into bed. When I
checked the bedroom thermostat, I noticed the temperature was a couple degrees
off what I prefer, so I tweaked the thermostat and flopped down into my nest of
blankets.
I woke yesterday feeling
righteously cold. When I glanced at the
room temperature reading on the thermostat, I found the reading five degree
below the setting I selected on the thermostat.
Well, that’s ungood, as my
buddy Rod would say. I immediately trotted
out to the utility room to check on my boiler.
Let’s call this “Part Two” of the
blog. In this installment, I prove, one
more time, I am an idiot.
Upon reaching the boiler, I found
the boiler and the array of pipes connected to it cold. Only then did I recall shutting down the
boiler early in the morning the day before.
My boiler makes a fair level of
racket when a zone calls for heat. I had
disabled the boiler while filming a few segments for an online continuing
education class. I have done this many
times before. Usually I write myself a “boiler!”
sticky-note and affix it to my computer to remind me the heat is off.
As I switched off my boiler’s power
the boiler the other day, I thought to myself: “I don’t need to write myself a
note this time. I’ll remember.”
—Mitchell Hegman
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