kellan_the_tabby | *giggle*

So...the furnace has been acting up. I called the gas company, and after a bout of rudeness (not mine), determined that despite the fact that it's bloody freezing outside, they couldn't get anyone here until tomorrow.

So I flipped open the phone book, pointed to someone in 'heating contractors', and called them. He could be out this afternoon, he said, and what with one thing and another I wound up handing him to Lewis so they could try to figure out what was wring without the guy having to come out. Between a couple of calls he spent about half an hour walking Lewis through things, for free. I circled his ad in the phone book and wrote 'good people' in big honking letters.

They got it working, but it kept cutting back out, and it became apparentl that it was going to beed more work. We tinkered with it for a while and gave up. I called the guy back, around probably seven, and got an answer; he said he'd be out in maybe an hour. So he shows up and looks...vaguely familiar. He and Lewis go downstairs to tinker, and I stay up here because there isn't room for three around the furnace.

I hear 'fighting' and 'Celtic Classic' and figure Lewis is explaining some of the odd stuf in the basement. Then I hear 'trebuchet' and 'ballista', not in Lewis's voice.

Turns out the guy's in the SCA. Hasn't been showing up recently, because he's spending his days fixing people's furnaces. Now they're downstairs working on the furnace and talking about siege engines...

*grins*

So the guy is definitely getting our business again. If you're local, and you need any kind of heating, plumbing, or air conditioning work done, the company is 'Effective Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning', and his phone number is 610-756-4177.

While looking in the phone book for that, I realized what originally caught my eye on his ad. Amongst the name and phone number and stuff is his motto: 'Justly, Faithfully, Honestly'.

Ya don't see stuff like that so often, these days...