Gas and Wind

Furnace inspecting guy just left - said he was surprised our furnace even ran at all 'cause it's so old. Also warned us of CO levels. But we've already got that one under control.

The shelf tag for the CO detector we bought last week speaks to either the sad lack of science education in North America, or to the rather carefree use of the English language by its users, because it identified the device we were about to purchase as a CO2 detector.

I really don't think I need to be alerted each time a detector senses CO2 in the air, though perhaps some people might like that.

Presumably the same people who would like an alarm that went off everytime it detected CO2 in the air are the same people who might like hearing car alarms that go off all night long. At one point in my life, I lived down the street from a car dealership. This was in the early days of car alarms, when many of them were overly sensitive and everytime there was a major windstorm (and this was on the prairies after all) all the car alarms would go off. Got to be a nightmare during storm season. This was also the place where the most convenient road for accessing the parking lot was steep enough that at choice times in the winter, the car simply could not make it all the way up before losing traction and sliding back down the hill. Looking back, I wonder what in the hell was the attraction of the place... oh yeah... right... the rent was cheap. Ahhhh, the good ol' days of cheap rent and shabby houses. Wait a second....