December 25, 2005

• I am cold. This is, to say the least, a very unusual situation, because I am in my home. There is no heat except for our fireplace in the family room and a small disc furnace in the master bathroom.  I am upstairs right now, so I get the benefit of neither. Our furnace is broken, it cannot be fixed for at least a week, and there is no help for it. We had a blower replaced, it was put in wrong, and this caused the entire mechanism of our geothermal system to be damaged beyond repair. It all must be replaced, of course paid for by the repair facility.. It is a special order item, very expensive, and all distributors are closed until Tuesday. The last time the company ordered a blower from its distributor, it took more than a week. No one else can supply these parts, so we must wait. We must remain here, not only because of our three cats, who will do fine, but because this is our home and all we need is here. My wife works all week, overnight both Tuesday and Friday. I work Tuesday through Friday, a relief for a co-worker who was injured in a head-on collision which was not her fault, so I cannot call off. I AM the substitute. So I cannot be here Tuesday through Friday, even if the parts would become available. I know this situation is not forever, and we will once again have heat once the parts become available, but  it really gives one pause. There are those who are in a situation with no heat or some other difficult situation, where the remedy is not so much at hand. We can survive by bundling up, and, of course, leaving for periods of time. Others cannot. We have wood. Others do not. We have electricity. Others do not.

  
  

  Take a lesson, John.

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