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I got an email saying the poker site that I play on is shutting down next Tuesday. Man, my manager is a powerful man. Anything to get me back to work. He'll need to shut down my AI girlfriend now though.
There are so many roadworks going on in Hitchin right now that it's almost impossible to get out of town. But when you live in Hitchin you don't want to leave. They're changing the gas main in our street which means they have to move our meter and how were connected to the mains. The guy this morning cheerfully told us that it would be easy and our gas would only be off for a couple of hours today. But the man who came this afternoon was less optimistic and told me that they had to try and lay some piping under our hall and that would depend on if they could get under there and if no walls were in the way. In any case they would have to take some floorboards up so he'd have to wait for a carpenter, who couldn't come til tomorrow.
The upshot of this is that we will have no gas til tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. And they couldn't have chosen a better day to do this, with the country under a blanket of snow (although we just got cold rain) and a cold wind blowing through.
It's lucky they are prepared to work on Saturday or we'd have a weekend without central heating, taking me back to the good old days of the old house where our new boiler kept shutting down and trying to kill us with carbon monoxide. What have I done to gas that it has it in for me so much? Sure I do turn oxygen into carbon dioxide which must be annoying for oxygen, but I am not the only one. And I always try to breathe out on a leaf so that the carbon dioxide will be turned back into oxygen asap.
Anyway there might have been better nights to have to live in a house without heating and the men doing the work were nice and brought us some fan heaters to get us through the night. They said that we could keep them as it cost more for them to be tested for the next customer than to buy new ones.
We also have an open fire so were able to snuggle up in front of that and watch Community and Traitors, which was a pretty good way to spend an evening.
The heaters had done a good job of making the bedrooms, if anything, a little bit too hot. Let's not think about how much that will cost. Still four free heaters, so you know swings and roundabouts.
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