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Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:35 am
hooray for crappy nights. got home at 430 and immediately went to taking apart the tenants' furnace because it wasn't working for whatever reason. decided some gunk made it though the lines and gummed it all up. i clean everything, replace all the filters (of course i had heating oil spill all over, god wouldn't have it any other way) and begin the bleeding process. the module thingy locks me out after too many resets. call eveyone, no one knows how to unlock it. i finally got frustated enough to call a service guy. he calls me back and tells me what to do over the phone.
i get back to bleeding it and fire it up. it starts but it's pissing smoke everywhere. the exact vision in my mind was the scene from "a christmas story" when the lamp breaks and the dad exits the basement followed by a cloud of black smoke. so there's excess oil in the furnace that needs to be burned off, hence the smoke. this is normal, and usually takes about 20 minutes of cycling on and off to clear it up. but this isn't a normal pocedure, i'm involved so everything must go terribly wrong.
i'm up until 11 trying to clear this smoke out. i was running aound pulling batteries from all the smoke detectors when they went off. my heat is off and all the doors and windows wide open trying to get the smoke out. i get into a heated argument with my old man on the phone which ended in him hanging up on me. i haven't eaten since breakfast. the smoke is making me dizzy and nauseus. i finally get fed up and put another call to the service guy on call, he decides he doesn't want to do any service calls, so he never calls back. it's now time to go to work, my house reeks of diesel fuel, my fingenails are black, i'm still nauseus, little sleep, and i would like to kill something.