i started a fire in the house today

[Escape Artist]

[in the fireplace, of course.]

Due to high gas prices this winter, I'll be doing this a lot, I think.

[Mae]

I have been searching Craig's list for Firewood. Stupid pallets. I want REAL fire wood. If you have to pull it apart, it ain't real.

We also have been saving the burnt out stubbs of the smelly candles for fire starter.

Now if we could only keep the cat out of the fireplace...

[Escape Artist]

You're in bloody Oregon - go cut a couple few trees down, fer chrissakes.

[mute]

Cutting trees down as a job has it's benefits. Lucky me. I'm the lackey of large tree removal. Or small.

[jules]

Related to the title, not to the content, but....

Matt started a full-on waffle fire in my dorm a few days ago.

He asked me to make him waffles, so I did, and he went back to sleep. Then, three hours later, when they were cold and therefore unacceptable, he put them back in the (illicit!) toaster oven. A few minutes in, I realized he'd set it to the full frozen-waffle time, and told him they were probably burning. They were, and so he turned the oven to "off" and forgot about them.

Jules: Wow, there is still smoke up by the ceiling. You really burned those. Good thing the smoke alarm is off the wall from that popcorn I burned.
Matt: (doesn't look up from computer) I don't see any smoke.


I stood up to check out the toaster on the overhead shelf, and saw smoke billowing out of it. "You turned it to "always on", not "off"!!!" I open it, stupidly, and the oxygen ignites a blazing waffle inferno. The room fills with smoke. Matt unplugs it and trips all over my mess of a room trying to get the flaming toaster to the window. Opening it causes flames to shoot out, closing it causes smoke. The fan doens't work. I put stuff in front of my door to prevent smoke from setting off the hall fire alarms... in vain. I go out into the hallway to calm my neighbors and leave Matt in the smoke-filled room to deal with it. Alarm only goes off for 30 sec or so. Eventually I find someone with a fan, and set the toaster on a table between the window and the fan. The large quantities of smoke exiting the room go into someone else's window and set off their fire alarm. Haha.

Apparently, the RA's came door-to-door asking where the smell came from, but we were well on our way to Utah by then.

I don't think I will ever get that smell out of my clothes....
pic (http://www.joules.us/toaster.jpg)

anyways... on topic: I am glad I do not have to pay a bill specifically for fuel. I'm sure it's included in what I pay, but I won't see those student loans for a few years...

[Mudflap]

:haha:

[Escape Artist]

OWNED!

[Mae]

My office loved that story. I even sent the waffles in the e-mail. The best pat was the one that looked like it had a bite taken out of it.

[jules]

That was the bite he took before disgustedly informing me that they were cold.