Thanks to all for the birthday greetings!!!Haineshiswaydotcom is truly an egalitarian web site. Even Wussburgers get their birthday party.
And speaking of Wussburgers,
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. CRAIG BROCKMAN!![/move]
My birthday had an inauspicious beginning. At 1:00 am, I noticed we had no hot water. Went to the basement and found the fuel-oil tank was empty. No furnace, no heat.
I called our fuel-oil man Kenny, of whom I posted some pictures here a few months ago, and left a message. Left a message for the furnace man. Furnace man called back and said he would be here first thing in the morning and advised us to "bundle up".

Well, I managed to sleep as the house went down to 58 degrees, but Joe was up worrying till I got up at 7, and then he went to bed.
The upshot was that the furnace man brought over 15 gallons, I called Kenny back and discovered he has moved to Connecticut!!
Running the business had gotten too much for him with a new wife and child to support and dead-beat customers and all, so he sold it to another established company here. They did have someone over in under an hour, so we got our heat back up. But Kenny will be missed.
The nice thing about a cold house is you get a lot of birthday hugs!!
