My kingdom for a new space heater! Just yesterday, it seemed like the warm weather might last a few more weeks. But here I am, shivering in my home office, wrapped in blankets, with my feet resplendent in hideous non-matching down booties. If only I had the mechanical engineering smarts to create a PC-cooling device that doubled as a space heaters, I’d shut my noisy PC up and keep my feet warm…

With heating oil prices still in the stratosphere (albeit at a slightly lower orbit), ranchero indebto’s programmable thermostat has been dialed down for the duration.

On the cold days during previous winters, a space heater - a portable Delonghi oil-filled radiator - kept the office at a tolerable temperature during the coldest days (when everyone was out of the house, save yours truly) and when the house boiler shut down for the evening.

But tonight, I’m looking over at the twenty-year-old Delonghi, thinking that it’s time to get serious about space heating. I’ve yet to plug in the old space heater for the season. After two decades, I figure, it’s probably time to give it a rest.

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[tags]space heater,oil prices,delonghi,radiator,winter[/tags]