Slowly freezing to death update

[avram]

We still have no heat. We do have an additional electric heater that our landlord brought up last night, so akawil and ladymondegreen could have some heat in their room, like I do in mine.

Today the extra heater is in the dining room, with the laptops. This worked fine, till Wil started making popcorn. Turns out the outlet over the kitchen counter is on the same circuit as the one the microwave is plugged into. (The bathroom’s on it too, but the fridge isn’t.) I found out about it when Wil came up to my room to get at the curcuit breaker switches. That didn’t help — we wound up having to call the landlord, and he switched on the switch in the basement, which fixed things. Shades of my old apartment, but at least it didn’t take the whole place’s power out.

He also said that the oil guys were working on the furnace, but it’s over an hour later now and we still don’t have heat.