This whole debate about whether I'm happy with the direction America is going and the direction I'm going in America is possibly a "grass is greener over there" issue.
For example, I was admiring the natural resolve and willingness of my buddy to go to great lengths to heat his home. He bought a wood-burning furnace (that also can use fuel oil). I saw first-hand the scars on his (and his wife's) arms as they worked the firey furnace in cold Connecticut in January with a foot of wet snow on the ground. Seemed real earthy to me, I had a lot of respect for that.
When I told him about this his response was (paraphrased): Yer jealous because I'm standing around either in my garage with a tiny 35Kbtu heater or in my basement with an overblown 200Kbtu wood burner, drinking my sorrows, achy cold muscles and scars away with scotch or in some terrible occasions, grain alcohol.
Hmmm... I guess that sitting in an outhouse dumping shit into a smoky burner for warmth while downing 190 proof hell and worrying about having the tip of your penis fall off from frostbite isn't quite as attractive as I'd imagined... :-)
Very natural, though.
Let me quoth from the wood-burning furnace Charmaster website bible: "The Charmaster is simple in concept..."
The devil is always in the details.
Posted by BilFish at March 15, 2004 06:21 PM