No Heat

So...
I just realized late last night that I needed to have turned on gas service at my apartment. Oyi...

For the past two months for so I had no problem with hot water running out while taking a shower, but yesterday morning, I ended up taking a nice long cold shower. In February!

So I checked the water heater last night, only to realize that the pilot had gone out. My attempt to reignite the pilot only led me to the realization that there was no gas flowing through those lines.
Then...
Was I supposed to turn on gas service when I moved in???

Yup.
Turns out that I need to sign up for gas service and have the service turned on.
So... who was being charged for my gas usage for the past two months?

That's the least of my worries.
I have no hot water until a gas tech comes out and turns it on, which will (hopefully) happen coming Monday. That's FOUR days without hot shower!
Hopefully at least my heater doesn't run on gas.

Guess I'll find out.

Dumpster Full of Food

“Learn to live cheaply. Learn to live like an animal. One thing we had going for us is we all spent a lot of time in grad school, and long periods of grad school teach you how to live well on a low budget. That’s good training for becoming entrepreneurs. It’s easier to have a high-risk tolerance when you know where the Dumpsters with free food are.”

- Saul Griffith -