We the Living

I seem to remember one of my esteemed colleagues (We won't mention his name, he knows who he is.) that was so upset about some Christmas lights last year that he spoke of little else for some time.  Where was Davy Crockett when we needed him?

Davy Crockett is dead, Emmanuel Kant is dead, and all the characters portrayed in The Good Place are dead.  Dead people don't need heat, it is we the living who need heat.  I find it hard to focus on dead people, historical or fictional, when I can't find somebody to come fix my furnace.  The wood furnace is working almost too well.  The outside temperature last night rose as the night wore on, reaching 51 degrees before morning.  It got way too hot in the house, which is why we prefer to use the gas furnace this time of year, easy on and easy off.  I guess I shouldn't complain, there must be people around here who have no alternate source of heat if their primary source fails them.  

By the way, this is a joke, right?  

Have you tried reversing the C13 connection and transfusing the Simpson duct with freon?  

You might have had me if you hadn't included freon, which is used in refrigerators and air conditioners, not heating units. 

There was considerable resistance to some of the restrictions imposed during the 1918 pandemic.  If it wasn't as prevalent as we are seeing today, it might have been because the flu virus moved relatively quickly through the country and didn't linger in one location for as long as the COVID does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Francisco