herbiehancock

Some of you may remember the "shredded tweet" incident from last week. Well, the bill has arrived for that service call from the plumbing, heating and cooling repair guy. (Click on the image to make it bigger if you need to.) The repair man was here at my house for 15 to 20 minutes tops!! My career advice of the day to anyone who is just starting out or perhaps starting over in choosing a career for themselves is to consider going into the plumbing, heating and cooling business. Apparently, there is much money to be had removing dead birds from the furnaces of people like me who know nothing about furnaces and such. Hmmmph!! Suddenly another song has begun playing in my head. OK, well maybe I'm not quite as upset as the lyrics in that song would portray, but YIKES! I agree that removing a dead bird from a furnace combustion fan was probably a rather unpleasant task, but at $240-$320 an hour give or take a dollar or two, I am thinking perhaps I should hang up my libra...

Last night, while I was working at the library, my husband came home from work and discovered that the heat wasn't on in our house. For some reason, the furnace had stopped working. He called the furnace repair guy who said he could come out to the house right away to fix it or wait until this morning to come. Then he said it would be an extra $100 to come last night because it was after hours. Not seeing the sense in paying an extra $100, my husband asked him to come out this morning. So we drank hot tea and layered on extra sweatshirts to keep away the chill that was gradually overtaking our house. (The temperature is still in the 20's outside here today.) The repairman came bright and early this morning to see what the problem was. He discovered that a bird had made its way down through the chimney on our roof to the furnace. It had managed to land on or in the whirring fan of the furnace motor where it not only ended its life, but also effectively shut down our furnace...