Beware of what you ask the gods..

*laughs*

I was just complaining nothing was happening...

But we had a really strong cold front come in yesterday, and we lost power for the first time since we moved in.

It went out at about 2:15am, and even though I was so tired I should have been sleeping through the whole thing, I found I was wide-awake, likely because the wind gusts were strong enough that they were really roaring through the trees and making a lot of noise--well, that and we were worried about the furnace pilot light going out, which is really a two-person operation to light.

The cats were really funny when the power was out, they just seemed so puzzled that everyone was up and no one seemed to have the brains to turn on a light...

In the way of such things, the pilot light was fine until about fifteen minutes after the power was restored when the heat suddenly died. I wondered if I'd be dealing with a repair of the furnace in a few hours when the company we use opened up, but happily, we got it re-lit--probably it was just a air bubble in the gas line, or even a gust of wind at just the right strength and angle forcing its way down the flue.

My money is on an air bubble, because it took us two tries to relight the pilot--the first time, nothing happened.

It was fine on the second try, though, and there's been no trouble since. I suppose it even could have been just a little crud in the lines, that happens too. Pilot flame looked good, though, all blue, no flickers, so I'm not going to borrow trouble I don't need.

One more big push on the project at work and hopefully things are going to settle down for a while...