Feeling the heat

[randy_byers]

I had the day off yesterday for Veteran's Day. It wasn't until I pried myself away from the computer at 3pm that I realized that the furnace had never turned on after I cranked up the thermostat. A repairman came by this morning and discovered that the thermostat had come loose from the base, so the signal to increase heat was not getting to the furnace. Felt like an idiot for not having noticed that myself, but I was also happy that the solution was so simple. You never miss the heat until it's gone.

The Monday mail included a package from D West with a letter and seven cartoons. What a treasure! Well, okay, so he denounced the substance of both Chunga 14 and AmaZed and CorfluZed 1 in the letter, but the treasure trove of cartoons belies the bile. Anyway, this led to a burst of work on Chunga 15 yesterday, as I sent scans of cartoons to carl and he sent new proofs of the zine, and I sent copy-edits back and Andy sent a new editorial simile. It was a lot of fun.

Got e-mail from my niece, too, suggesting that she, my sister, my mom, and I see Baz Luhrmann's new movie, Australia, over Thanksgiving. Stoked! But there seems something funny about this grouping of people. Hm. Odd man out again!

It's been a week since we elected Obama. I'm still feeling proud of my country. How long can it last? Has everybody seen the cover of the current New Yorker?

Comments

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Nice one!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

voidampersand said it best. AOL-him, plus rambling chat of admiration to the cover's designer and the magazine's editorial team for going with it. Very effective.

Wow. D West cartoons. I look forward to seeing them in your future publications! As for the rest, sure, I'll read that and see what I think of his perspective. I'm pleased that yours is spot-on: "the treasure trove of cartoons belies the bile." True, and very well said.

I'm glad to took so little to get your heat working again. I'm all too familiar with the embarrassment you felt. Last winter I had two heating guys searching everywhere for the broken pipe that I thought was the source of the basement flooding. Hey, we already knew the pipes were frozen, surely a break explained all that soggy carpet. Nope. Turned out the water was coming in under the door. The water treatment system backwash drainpipe had been forced out of the main drain by an exterior ice build-up, so the next time the system cleaned itself, all the waste water came pouring down the outside of the basement and flooded in through the bottom of the basement door. I'd seen how deep the flooding was just inside the door. Why didn't I look outside before calling the heating guys? Duh.

Oh, well. Just more fodder for the "Geri Sullivan, Girl Homeowner" stories.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Don seems to be feeling his fannish oats lately, as this was the second batch of cartoons we've gotten from him in less than a year. But you won't get to see most of his comments on Chunga 14, since we don't have room for the whole letter at this late date and will be WAHFing one of the better bits. Suffice it to say that Georgie Schnobrich's illo was about the only thing he seemed prepared to praise, and it is indeed a damned fine piece of art. Anyway, you'll see his comments on the Corflu PR in the next issue of that.

As for not noticing things until after the repairman arrives, well, I guess that's what they're there for. Or something like that. So now we've learned to check for this particular problem, but next time it'll be something else we aren't seeing!