Was still too tired and sick to get up on time to go to prayer this morning at the church by 6 am. Until I am 100% over whatever it is that I have, I don't know if I will be making it in the early morning like that. But, I am praying all that I can during the day anyway. Just because I can't make it to one thing does not mean that I can't be logging some serious prayer time at all other times. After all, communication with the master is a key part of being a good servant!
Got up at 7:05 and started getting Nate ready for school. It was incredible cold in the house. Almost as cold inside as it was outside, and it was about 37 degrees outside! The house is very small, only a little over 400 square feet - A living room/ dining room combo, a very small kitchen, the bathroom & 2 small bedrooms. We use a space heater in each of the bedrooms to keep them warmer at night, but it was still "cool." Out in the rest of the house though - wow! Let's just say that we spend as much time as possible in the bedrooms. : )
We can use the stove/ oven to warm the main part of the house, but it runs off of a gas cylinder, not piped in gas. Therefore, your supply is limited and getting refills is a bit sketchy. We do not want to run out of gas again - last time it took us 6 days to get a refill - which means no cooking and no hot water. Bum city.
So, we use our 2 little heaters to try and keep our home warm - which really is just a concrete shell with cold tile floor. Until, we learned tonight from the neighbors that we were using too much electricity and breaking the main circuit at the street - and not just for us, but for all of them too!
The short little street we live on is the cross bar of a "T." The street we sit on top of is older houses with good electric and piped in gas. The gas lines are to small though to be extended to us, so we have to gas tubes. It appears that our electric comes off the end of theirs and one line is being split between 5 homes on our little street. There is a fuse box out on a light pole by the beginning of our street. When the fuse breaks, one of the neighbors goes out to reset it. I thought it was the workers (they are still constructing the other end of the street) who were turning it off. Turns out, we probably were using more than our fair share of electricity and breaking the circuit. We were told that we could only run 1 heater! For the whole house! That is I suppose what everyone else is running.
Well, it is way too cold to do that at night right now. The kids need the heat to sleep well and not get sick & Heather and I are both already sick and can't take the extreme cold all night. We will run both at lower settings in our rooms with the doors closed and just suffer through in the rest of the house. Plus at night, everything else - lights, appliances, etc are all off in everyone's place. We were ok last night so we should be tonight.
I don't know if anyone "winterizes" here, but we need to - especially if we have to limit our electric consumption. I am going to see if I can find sealing strip for the 2 doors, plastic to cover the window and vents, and some kind of trim to seal the bottom of the doors. (There is a generous gap under them!) All put together, it makes for a drafty environment. : ) We'll see what hardware stores carry and try to help shore up the heat from escaping.
On the plus side today - Heather worked her tail off to get our laptops to work with the new printer. It was quite the chore, but she pulled it off somehow. Yea! My wife is too smart. : )
On the minus side, it consumed a lot of time and my space so I didn't get hardly any office work done today. But, I did get some more Scripture memorized in Spanish! Extremely important for the "job." It doesn't really matter how much you know in English, you gotta know it in Spanish for it to do anything here. : )
I have to hit the sack to try and get more sleep and get to feeling better.
Talk to you later
God night and God bless
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