The Joys of Home Ownership

I should have known that our heater/boiler would choose the coldest weather in three years to attempt suicide. And it would be an "advanced, high efficiency" Hydropulse unit that almost no one knows how to fix. And the one service technician in this area who knows how would be so pissed off at me that he won't come and fix it--supposedly because I wasn't home when he came the last time, though he came two hours after he said he would. So it's cosy up to the space heater while I search for another company that can cope with the thing. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on . . . .