I'm a firestarter, wicked firestarter...

So i wake up saturday afternoon.... yes you heard right, it was about 12:30pm.. and i'm shivering when i get out of bed. i hobble my way down the stairs and take a gander at the thermostat... its sitting at 50 degrees F, and i think it would have been lower if 50 was not the lowest it could go. now i like to wait as long as possible to turn on the heat, but even i am not retarded... so i make my way to the basement to fire up the furnace.

i vividly remember having trouble last year getting the damn thing lit... so i'm thinking i'll do everything right this year. rrrrrrrrrrrrrright. i get out the lighter/torch thingy and push the switch to the "set" position (after opening the gas valve) and light the pilot light. all is well i think. wrong. as i try to move the switch to the "on" position, the pilot light keeps going out. grrr. after 3 attempts im getting pissed and cant figure out why the pilot light wont stay lit. so being the "intelligent" person that i am, and realizing that similar actions repeated with the same results are futile... i try and move the swith to the "on" position and then light the pilot light.

WOOOOMPPPFFFFFFFFFFFFF!

oh yeah that puppy lit! and shot a fookin fireball about 2 feet out of the furnace as well.

needless to say i need to wear long sleeves for a while since i singed off a majority of the hair around my wrists, so they no longer match the rest of my fur covered arms.

maybe next year i won't turn the furnace on at all...

oh and in case you are wondering the thermostat is set at a toasty 58 degrees, where it will be all winter, unless i expect company, then i'll think about raising it to 65.