December 12, 2005
Winter Arrives
Although we've had quite a bit of snow already, real winter has finally arrived: The temp on my menubar says -8 F, the power's flickering every few minutes, and our propane supplier forgot to fill our tank. It ran empty last night, and they can't manage to make a delivery until tomorrow at some point--so we're running on wood heat without any backup system if the power goes out and the fan on the wood heater shuts down.
If I was optimistic, I'd make much of the fact that the menubar temp seems a little off--in addition to the inexplicable sun icon (it's near midnight, and we're not that far north), the thermometer outside the kitchen window only says -3 F.
But I'm not that optimistic. (The useful part about being a pessimist is that surprises are usually nice ones.)
Posted by johndanseven at December 12, 2005 11:53 PM