Carbon Monoxide!?

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Weird. The smoke alarm went off, not incredibly odd when I am using the fireplace, but it wasn't the smoke detector. It was the CO alarm. I was totally surprised. It had never gone off as long as I have had one, over many many years. Yep, after resetting it a few times. It was getting a reading over 200 ppm CO. When I took it downstairs I got a reading near 300 ppm. I started getting light headed at this point. After thinking maybe the furnace heat exchanger failed and puzzling around a bit I figured out what happened. As part of the huge winter storm that recently covered almost half of the US, we lost our electricity. So, being well prepared, I rolled out the generator and started doing what I normally do. The generator (although it was completely outside) was creating CO to get in the house. Using the fireplace draft (and possibly other leaks) the whole house created a vacuum around the seal of the basement garage door. After the CO got into the house the forced air heat...
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I am Back! I truly appreciate the questions of when I was going to get the blog working again. It really means something. I have migrated servers and tried to clean up some of the file system. Although I will lose quite a bit of "findability" since google relies on a time presence as well as other criteria it will be worth it to get things right. This switch was like turning over the material in a compost heap.

It has been a long strange couple of months!! I have a lot to say and a lot not not to say. I can tell you that I find there is a very interesting condition that reading between the lines is not the way to go. Material gets inserted in the human mind to fill in blank spots. I find it facinating.

I am going to look for some photos after I test this post.

Here is an encore of Aries, the good llama. Listen closely to the movie and you can hear Aries gently blow into the camera. Llamas will lightly blow into your face to get to know you. Strange. They are indeed weird. If you think llamas are weird it is nothing compared to people and policies.


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