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8. All polls must have an "Africa, by Toto" option. Why? Because we hear the drums echoing tonight.
None of our chimneys are up to code (built almost 100 years ago), so to avoid the annual fire marshal inspection fee for something I can't legally use, I clogged the top with some insulation foam and sent in the pictures.
I have since started using the chimneys as cable runs, as my "server room" is located in the basement right next to the chimney base. My chimneys are now an integral part of my home network.
I've come to really enjoy a slow Saturday morning where I drink my coffee by the fire and maybe read a little bit.
I just picked up my second load of wood on Monday. Wife and I stacked it while the kids were napping.
Quoting RedHanded podcast non verbatim:
“English has so many stupid words… Fireplace? …SPACE?”
(While talking about people-carriers, which other countries call “bus”)
Converted ours to a gas insert a couple years ago after a freak ice storm shut everything down leaving us with no heat for nearly a week. We rarely used the fireplace except for dura-logs for ambience. Now at least we will have a (puny) heat source if that happens again.
We just capped ours. We figured that more heat was escaping than we could ever generate in a fireplace.
Probably a good idea