Posted by ActionSatisfaction Esq. I would wake up with my nipples painfully hard due to the metal shoved through them being so cold. That was the most unpleasant part I think, yes.

You think they were so hard from the cold? LOL.

Posted by Oryx Oh man I feel your pain. we used to sleep with the oven on at our old apartment. we could never adjust the heat because the landlord never turned the boiler on.

In NJ? Dude, I just scoured your housing laws the other day.... That is WAY, way waayyyyy illegal here.

Posted by Emma Peel In NJ? Dude, I just scoured your housing laws the other day.... That is WAY, way waayyyyy illegal here.

Oh I know. The problem was proving it. By the time a state official or whatever got around to visiting the apartment, it'd be afternoon and the apartment would heat up within a degree of the legal limit so they wouldn't do anything about it. That and our landlord was some weird spawn of satan who no one ever wanted to deal with.

So I now have heat, but I now can't afford to have christmas... lol

Every time something breaks at my house, I think of that Mitch Hedburg skit...

"There should be an Apartment Depot. It's just a bunch of people standing around saying 'I ain't gotta fix shit!'"

Posted by DelbertGrady Every time something breaks at my house, I think of that Mitch Hedburg skit... "There should be an Apartment Depot. It's just a bunch of people standing around saying 'I ain't gotta fix shit!'"

^i'm like this with my house... i have been wanting to paint it now for like 4 years.

Posted by Samurai my old boiler was 20x the boiler this Utica is... The downside was that this particular Weil-McClain (Sp?) was from an era that had serious rust issues. It just rotted out. Since we had this fucking boiler installed, it swills oil like its free and doesn't keep the house warm (i have an air leak in my radiator system somewhere)

Glad I have forced air in my house. I'd be going buggy trying to find where the leak is.

Earlier this year our furnace wouldn't kick in properly. I can hear the flame start, then go out and this would repeat two more times. The furnace is a York (Model 88)and it was installed brand new in 1999.

First technician (who was the same guy who installed the furnace and was servicing it annually since we first bought the place) looked at it and said he couldn't find anything wrong. Furnace was then working fine after he left. And then, a couple of months later, same old crap! I called and left a message for the guy and he didn't get back to me. I called another tech and he came in. After a thorough cleaning of all burners (especially back burners) and the flame sensor, the furnace is now working beautifully! He told me the back burners and flame sensor were filthy and looked like they hadn't been touched in years.

"I've been having the furnace serviced annually. Why would they be like that?" I asked the guy.
He shook his head and didn't want to comment.

All I can say is that the tech we had servicing our furnace prior to this guy has just lost a long time customer.

Posted by bandi just got a house. It's finally cold out, and my furnace shit the bed saturday night... as did my microwave. WHY IS EVERYTHING THAT MAKES ME WARM FUCKING BROKEN? It's a 4 year old furnace but there are no parts available for it. it's fucking cold. fuck you intertherm! FUCK YOU!

Sounds like a morning I had from hell. Go out to get to work, the rental car we had was stuck in the snow. Started to go back into the house, the door handle broke off and then when I turned on a light in the kitchen, the light bulb exploded. My comment "So, what else is going to f**k up?

We were able to lock the front door from the inside and thought we'll go out the back door. Nope! The lock was seized and we couldn't get that opened.

Well, at least my question was answered. This was all at 4:30 in the morning.

I gotta stop quick glancing at thread titles.

This one looked like "fuck my wife"

Posted by rainman8889 Glad I have forced air in my house. I'd be going buggy trying to find where the leak is. Earlier this year our furnace wouldn't kick in properly. I can hear the flame start, then go out and this would repeat two more times. The furnace is a York (Model 88)and it was installed brand new in 1999. First technician (who was the same guy who installed the furnace and was servicing it annually since we first bought the place) looked at it and said he couldn't find anything wrong. Furnace was then working fine after he left. And then, a couple of months later, same old crap! I called and left a message for the guy and he didn't get back to me. I called another tech and he came in. After a thorough cleaning of all burners (especially back burners) and the flame sensor, the furnace is now working beautifully! He told me the back burners and flame sensor were filthy and looked like they hadn't been touched in years. "I've been having the furnace serviced annually. Why would they be like that?" I asked the guy. He shook his head and didn't want to comment. All I can say is that the tech we had servicing our furnace prior to this guy has just lost a long time customer.

That sucks, but yeah it sure sounds like a crappy flame signal caused by either a crappy flame (dirty burners, air inlet, ect.) or a crappy sensor (dirty or damaged) Should have been an easy fix, should have been clean since you had annual service. You should send him the bill and demand he pay it, good luck with that

Also, monday night my 8 month old laptop's hard drive nuked itself entirely. Lost absolutely everything including all of my UE photography.

Yes, I am a dumbass for not backing it up, but I really didn't expect it to fail quite so early.

Stupid PC.

(I'm a Mac guy... but had to have the PC for work for GM Diagnostic software. Apparently Acer makes their hard drives out of the same thing as GM parts.)

Posted by Nvr2loud That sucks, but yeah it sure sounds like a crappy flame signal caused by either a crappy flame (dirty burners, air inlet, ect.) or a crappy sensor (dirty or damaged) Should have been an easy fix, should have been clean since you had annual service. You should send him the bill and demand he pay it, good luck with that

Thank you.

I've thought of sending him the bill or even telling him what was found but my neighbour is a very close friend of his. Figured I'm better off just cutting my losses and staying with the other company. I'm getting along well with the neighbour and don't feel like pissing in that particular well.

Posted by bandi Also, monday night my 8 month old laptop's hard drive nuked itself entirely. Lost absolutely everything including all of my UE photography. Yes, I am a dumbass for not backing it up, but I really didn't expect it to fail quite so early.

I feel your pain on that one. STILL working on getting photos back from a hard drive that was backed up, but the backup nuked itself shortly after my original hard drive died. I have most pics back, but it has been months trying to get them all. Still putting them all on DVD. Fuck technology.

Yeah, I'm currently UERing on an IBM Thinkpad I bought at a yard sale for $25 two years ago.

And actually... the damn thing seems to work alright. It outlasted my $1100 brand new one, anyhow.

Posted by bandi Yeah, I'm currently UERing on an IBM Thinkpad I bought at a yard sale for $25 two years ago. And actually... the damn thing seems to work alright. It outlasted my $1100 brand new one, anyhow.

Usually how it works. Many times I've found that the fancy expensive stuff is little more than overpriced glittery crap!

Posted by bandi Also, monday night my 8 month old laptop's hard drive nuked itself entirely. Lost absolutely everything including all of my UE photography.

Is it just me or does this seem to be a problem with all laptops? For the past couple of years, every time I hear of someone's hard driving getting nuked, they owned a laptop.

Posted by PorkChopExpress Is it just me or does this seem to be a problem with all laptops? For the past couple of years, every time I hear of someone's hard driving getting nuked, they owned a laptop.

As an aspiring IT-business type person, the number one thing bandied about that will keep your data safe is backup backup backup! $100 on an external drive you don't use much may seem like a waste, but it pays off if your drive takes a crap, or you ever lose that laptop (how many times have we heard in the news of laptops with important information getting lost or stolen?).

Of course, you need to actually back stuff up to your drive on a regular/frequent enough basis in order to minimize data lost.

even one of those silly keyring memory sticks is a big help... i keep much of my writing on there because when i have downtime at work, i work on my novel.

Posted by PorkChopExpress Is it just me or does this seem to be a problem with all laptops? For the past couple of years, every time I hear of someone's hard driving getting nuked, they owned a laptop.

i would assume that the big OEM builders (including apple) would purchase parts from the lowest bidder.

is the "disk in the freezer" trick an option for you to get the data back?

also, on the topic of "real men" and cats -- im a guy, i have a cat, and i feel no shame. hes an 18lb, dumb, orange farm cat.

Posted by PorkChopExpress Is it just me or does this seem to be a problem with all laptops? For the past couple of years, every time I hear of someone's hard driving getting nuked, they owned a laptop.

Familiar story. Mine went from perfect to shit literally overnight back in October. Went to bed with it working fine, woke up the next morning and the heap wouldn't boot.

On top of that, it randomly blue-screened during the re-install. Unholy piece of dogshit.