Sophia, is your apartment especially air-tight? CO tends to seep out of most old houses before it builds up to bad levels. It's the newer construction, which is more air-tight than traditional methods, that CO and other toxic gases become a problem.

Also... basement apartments. IIRC, CO is heavier-than-oxygen, so it tends to settle low.

I also can't find any regulations on what the landlord has to provide if I am paying for my own heat. It seems that if he/she is paying for heat, it has to be at least 55 degrees. It would seem to me that if I pay for heat that what I should have is as much heat as I want. I left a message this morning saying that last night, althogh I had the thermostat set to 65, it went down to 54. I also indicated that the big, wall sized heat run which has all sorts of warnings about not touching and getting hot was cold to the touch, and that I could not get my apartment over 60 even by turning the thermostat to 90 . And it wasn't like the heat was coming on and it just wasn't getting any warmer-- the heat really didn't come on.

Sophia, is your apartment especially air-tight? CO tends to seep out of most old houses before it builds up to bad levels. It's the newer construction, which is more air-tight than traditional methods, that CO and other toxic gases become a problem.

Thank you! I live in a second floor not very air tight apartment. So I don't have to worry about my kitty all day! Except for him turning into an icicle.

We made fun of that Anne Rice book in Literary a few months ago.

bon bon - because of you I taped the recap hour of Prison Break and now I think I must start taping it. I hope you are happy.

So happy! What drew you in? Was it the pretty?

Dana, I think that you can never make fun of Anne Rice enough.

We made fun of that Anne Rice book in Literary a few months ago.

I can sleep easier knowing that it's been made fun of.

Dana, I think that you can never make fun of Anne Rice enough.

Oh, certainly not. That wasn't to head off any new mocking, just to let people know that some funny had already occurred.

Oh, and I have a stupid cold. I have this scratchy throat thing that's very annoying. I don't want to drink anything with caffeine (because of the diuretic aspect) but I have some caffeine-free green tea - would that be good for my throat?

I've woken up at 5:30 for the past three mornings. Not awake-get-up-woken, just, oh hell, I have to get up in 90 minutes, why am I awake now woken. It's tiresome. I think I'll blame one of the cats. She was being an asshole this morning. At 5:30.

Miserable outside. I think we need to cancel the cold rain and wind now, thanks.