In which I am a complete moron

[mamajoan]

Only a complete moron would let her oil tank run dry on the coldest day of the year, right?

Only a complete moron would be sitting around typing LJ entries as her fingers slowly turn to blocks of ice because it's 50F and falling in her apartment, right?

The oil company people can't come till the afternoon, so I guess we'll be going out and doing some emergency shopping. It's supposed to snow like two feet tonight. It's kind of sad when you go to the grocery store to warm up.

Comments

[bearblue.livejournal.com]

*giant hugs* May you find warmth and comfort....

and a little heater... ;)

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. If I had to keep up with an oil tank for heat, I'd be in the same situation most likely. Fortunately for me, I haven't been responsible for the energy source of my heater (beyond paying the electric bill). Unfortunately, the reason why I feel your pain is that I used to live in an apartment run by a slum lord who used steam heaters in the apartments. The boiler was old but he wouldn't replace it so anytime it dropped below freezing outside, our apartment would get down to the 50s and the radiators would barely be warm. I even bought a thermometer to confirm the temperature so I could give numbers to the landlord. His response? The boiler just can't take it when it gets that cold, sorry. We ended up buying electric space heaters (he paid electric on the house as well as water, neener neener) to run in the rooms we were using at any given moment (couldn't just leave them on because of the cats, of course). I remember many a shopping trip to get warm, and we saw lots of our parents as well. ;)

[wyldreamer.livejournal.com]

*warm hugs* not that I'm very warm or anything...it was 58 inside when I woke up this morning because the heat in our crappy drafty apartment sucks! Poor lexie has been having trouble sleeping because of the cold and she totally freaks if you put a blanket on her.

I hope you get your oil soon and that we don't get much snow at all...it isn't like the weather people are right all the time, or hardly ever.

[glamsith.livejournal.com]

I can totally see myself doing that.

Sympathy for your cold little extremeties, and a little "Check Oil Level" sticker for your callendar which, if I needed one and had one, I'd never remember to use myself.

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

Hope the oil truck gets there before the snow gets bad!!!! {{{heat vibes}}}

[aelf.livejournal.com]

The knowledge that I would *totally* do that is why we paid the little bit extra to get on the "we check your tank and make sure it's always full" plan. It also meant we got bumped ahead of the "do it yourself" folks if our tank ever did run out. Now we have natural gas heat, so our house can explode. Fun!

I hope you get warm soon!

[retch.livejournal.com]

Hug!

Get thee and thou to your mommy's place, freeze not within the darkness.

Yikes!

[techn0goddess.livejournal.com]

I sure hope you got more oil before sundown. Brrr.

[victoriacatlady.livejournal.com]

Is there any easy way of finding out how much oil is in the tank? If not (and there wasn't in the oil-heated places I've lived in) you can hardly call yourself a moron for not knowing what you had no way to know.

(Of course, even if you could have known but didn't, I'd hardly call yourself a moron for that. Mind you, if you *did* know that the oil was about to run out, I take it all back.)

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Umm, yes, there's a little thing called going into the basement and looking at the gauge on the oil tank.

Part of the reason I didn't realize is that the gauge is hard to read and different from the one at my last place. So I thought it was broken, but it turns out it was just reading zero. Of course, if I had been smart I would have checked it sooner, when it wasn't at zero yet.