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Feb. 21st, 2009 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI am still in love with the Red Lentils and Chiles recipe. I'm apparently happy to eat it all up in two days, forsaking all other food in order to be able to eat the Red Lentils and Chiles recipe, even when it's made with not-red-lentils. In lieu of better evidence, I am going to claim that the attraction is primarily the sour-and-hot nature of having fresh lime and two kinds of chiles in a food item.
I am almost done with the first run-through of World of Goo, a game I bought for the computer. It's been a lot of fun. I will probably go back and do better (they have an OCD criteria for persons who feel the need to complete every level to an exceedingly high standard of perfection) but even if I never do, it's been fun. While I am all perky go linux about it, the game is also happily available in Mac and Doze for persons who do not use linux. Pimp, pimp.
I got to fix a furnace today, too. That was fun.
I am not an expert furnace fixer, but my furnace fixing flowchart is improving. Today's effort was "The furnace is not running right. It runs but there's not any heat and it made a big smoke, filled up the basement so I turned it off at the fusebox".
Okay. I'll be in to take a look at it. *sigh* I was in the middle of making cookies, for fuck's sake.
I get there. Tenant and his three buddies helping him move in are there. "So, what's wrong?"
The nozzle is shot and it could probably use a new fuel filter.
"How do you know?"
You said it "kind of" starts, doesn't shut off (If it weren't lighting at all or if the electric eye could not see the lighting, the furnace would be shutting off after less than a minute and the red reset button would be popping out.), doesn't burn right, and occasionally makes big smoke that fills the basement. That means that it's firing, with flame, but NOT getting complete combustion going on. The nozzles are made to spray a cone of fire that all gets burned up in a timely fashion. Crunked-up nozzles do not make a proper cone and so not all the fuel that's being sprayed gets burned up. (Think of a garden hose spray attachment with your finger over part of the end, how fucked up that would look and you know how when you do that a lot of the water doesn't get sprayed, it just drips straight down.) The "big smoke" is from leftover unburned fuel oil getting all burned up at once. We're going to put in a new nozzle and replace the fuel filter and I expect that will fix things.
It did. Christ, I hate having to fix things in front of an (invariably male) audience. Look, tenant o' mine, if you knew how to fix the damn furnace, you would not be asking me things like "Can I use a pipe cleaner to clean the nozzle out?" (No. You couldn't get a straight pin in the hole for a one-house-furnace sized nozzle. They're teeny tiny holes.)
I am almost done with the first run-through of World of Goo, a game I bought for the computer. It's been a lot of fun. I will probably go back and do better (they have an OCD criteria for persons who feel the need to complete every level to an exceedingly high standard of perfection) but even if I never do, it's been fun. While I am all perky go linux about it, the game is also happily available in Mac and Doze for persons who do not use linux. Pimp, pimp.
I got to fix a furnace today, too. That was fun.
I am not an expert furnace fixer, but my furnace fixing flowchart is improving. Today's effort was "The furnace is not running right. It runs but there's not any heat and it made a big smoke, filled up the basement so I turned it off at the fusebox".
Okay. I'll be in to take a look at it. *sigh* I was in the middle of making cookies, for fuck's sake.
I get there. Tenant and his three buddies helping him move in are there. "So, what's wrong?"
The nozzle is shot and it could probably use a new fuel filter.
"How do you know?"
You said it "kind of" starts, doesn't shut off (If it weren't lighting at all or if the electric eye could not see the lighting, the furnace would be shutting off after less than a minute and the red reset button would be popping out.), doesn't burn right, and occasionally makes big smoke that fills the basement. That means that it's firing, with flame, but NOT getting complete combustion going on. The nozzles are made to spray a cone of fire that all gets burned up in a timely fashion. Crunked-up nozzles do not make a proper cone and so not all the fuel that's being sprayed gets burned up. (Think of a garden hose spray attachment with your finger over part of the end, how fucked up that would look and you know how when you do that a lot of the water doesn't get sprayed, it just drips straight down.) The "big smoke" is from leftover unburned fuel oil getting all burned up at once. We're going to put in a new nozzle and replace the fuel filter and I expect that will fix things.
It did. Christ, I hate having to fix things in front of an (invariably male) audience. Look, tenant o' mine, if you knew how to fix the damn furnace, you would not be asking me things like "Can I use a pipe cleaner to clean the nozzle out?" (No. You couldn't get a straight pin in the hole for a one-house-furnace sized nozzle. They're teeny tiny holes.)
