Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
Actually, it’s toasty warm in here. We’ve had a fire all day. That’s a red flag.
Uncle B caught our oil central heat boiler smoking over the weekend – and not the fun kind with the nicotine. He shut it down, but our boiler tech (whatever they’re called) is going straight to voicemail and he hasn’t returned the call.
So, day fires. Very evocative. I hung out at the gym this morning until he took the edge off. We’re having a cold snap, of course.
Posted: March 23rd, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 4
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Comment from dissent555
Time: March 23, 2026, 8:02 pm
Here in the northern People’s Republic of Illinois we’re fluctuating between daytime highs in the low 40’s to the 70’s Fahrenheit. In other words, March.
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: March 23, 2026, 9:19 pm
Dear Lord, please protect these two fine people from their devilish smoking furnace. And smile upon their boiler tech (or whatever he’s called), as well. Thank you, Lord. Amen.
I’d blame the furnace trouble on the Swedish Doom Goblin but I’m sure she’s busy, having tied herself up in knots trying to figure out how to act now that the Palestinian Authority has condemned whoever’s running Iran and sided with, wait for it, Saudi Arabia. Oh, yeah, and what to make of the UN’s Guterres decision to start working with President Trump on the Gaza Peace Council.
There are some mighty surprising bedfellows lately. I hope they’re enjoying the sex.
Comment from Mark Matis
Time: March 23, 2026, 9:48 pm
Here in east central Florida it is only 86 degf at 5:45 PM on Monday, 23 March. Low tonight forecast for 59 degf.
Truly miserably cold!!!
Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: March 24, 2026, 1:50 am
Yeah, Virginia’s been schizophrenic the last couple of week’s, too. 70s down to 50s, it was even freezing a week ago.
But the humidity is coming, and soon.
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