This Smell
I think my heater has a dead creature in it. The smell is nearly unbearable. I had the windows open all day yesterday, and part of the night (until I got too cold), not to mention a simultaneous attack of air filters and scented candles. No luck.
I had friends over last night, and they assumed it was the cats. Yes, my cats stink occasionally (especially after canned food), but they deserve more credit than this.
I guess I'll have to submit one of those skepticism inducing maintenance calls on Monday. At least things are bearable without the heater on (low of 55 or something like that — nothing a blanket can't fix, and probably friendlier to my electric bill anyway), so I'll be able to stick it out until then.
I did find another great thought in my Rumi book, though — not that it has anything to do with anything else, but at least it's fun right?
Which reminds me of the mother who tells her child,
"When you're walking through the graveyard at night
and you see a boogeyman, run at it,
and it will go away."
"But what," replies the child, "if the boogeyman's
mother has told it do do the same thing?
Boogeymen have mothers too."
Maybe the boogeyman's mother would know how to extract a rodent from a heating system.
I had friends over last night, and they assumed it was the cats. Yes, my cats stink occasionally (especially after canned food), but they deserve more credit than this.
I guess I'll have to submit one of those skepticism inducing maintenance calls on Monday. At least things are bearable without the heater on (low of 55 or something like that — nothing a blanket can't fix, and probably friendlier to my electric bill anyway), so I'll be able to stick it out until then.
I did find another great thought in my Rumi book, though — not that it has anything to do with anything else, but at least it's fun right?
Which reminds me of the mother who tells her child,
"When you're walking through the graveyard at night
and you see a boogeyman, run at it,
and it will go away."
"But what," replies the child, "if the boogeyman's
mother has told it do do the same thing?
Boogeymen have mothers too."
Maybe the boogeyman's mother would know how to extract a rodent from a heating system.