There’s a smell my friends.

There’s a smell Your Daily Lex Before I get into the smell I will acknowledge I was going to say there’s a smell you guys there’s a smell That’s how it’s gonna open this episode.

And then as I started talking I thought about how guys isn’t always inclusive So I switched to my friends and I actually think my friends ended up working better Even though initially I resented needing to change it because I thought that you guys was funnier But I think my friends is funnier.

So anyway, there is a smell my friends and I am trying to be inclusive There’s a smell so last night I had to take Liam to another I guess the final dress rehearsal for the play for which he is the piano player the radio play and When I was parking there and then like unloading the car whatever Unloading the car because we had to bring in his piano equipment Lauren called me and she’s like, I guess you’re not looking at your phone Oh my god was probably still in do not disturb for being in the car But not looking at the carplay screen, so I didn’t know you were texting me.

There’s a smell coming from the heat and so I was helping Lauren do some things to diagnose it and You know concluded with shutting off the heat on the first floor and we’re lucky that we have a couple different zones of heat But the first floor was gonna get pretty cold, which it did and when I came home You could already smell the stale smell in the air With the heat not having run for the past hour or more And then I of course wanted to see it experience it live smell it live I guess turn the heat back on and was looking and I looked in some of the vents.

I had my phone camera with me And then I went down to the furnace unit itself and was disassembling it and the filter looks crystal clear and I didn’t notice anything unusual looking there, but right at the furnace.

It smelled bad there, too and Now, what do you do because it’s late, you know by the time we got home was after 9.

Nobody’s gonna come in and the dog sleeps downstairs and we couldn’t do that last night because we couldn’t leave the heat on and So we had the dog sleep upstairs in his crate in the laundry room, and he didn’t seem to mind but I Saw that there was a vent cleaning place that I could contact which I did via text message and they called me back this morning It’s $500 to do a vent to clean out for that single zone but I don’t think it’s a vent problem because Why would it smell in every vent if there was something that had fallen down into one vent like I can imagine we get some Scent in in all the vents because everything is connected, but it smells way too strong from everywhere In that zone When it’s running So I think it must be something that has failed in the furnace that is partially inspired by folks who wrote to me on various Social media networks when I posted about this, so I think something has failed there and I also called my local air conditioning and heating company and They have a 24-hour answering service who then connected me who said that somebody would call me soon and then two minutes later somebody called me from the actual company and Yeah, they said that they would get somebody out today And so I’m seven minutes away from the window because they’re supposed to come between noon and 4 today And it is 1153 as I record this sentence, so hopefully they’ll be able to see it And it’s just the pricing is so absurd like it’s a hundred and sixty dollars for the first 20 minutes of the visit Maybe it’s the first half hour, and then it’s some additional feel like $60 for each additional 15 Minutes, it’s crazy great great so Hopefully they’ll figure it out quickly and be able to fix it quickly Because I’m bleeding money every second.

They’re there So yeah right now.

There is no heat in my downstairs Although there isn’t one part of the house that’s downstairs It has its own small furnace my office has its own heat And then I have a portable heater that I stuck in the kitchen to just keep off the freezing, but yeah It’s a little chilly.

It’s also the one of the coldest days of the winter thus far Here in New Jersey, so good times It’s gonna be fine.

Nobody worry Also, I am using my new Candle warmer I’ve typically been putting my candles on my mug warmer, and that works, okay?

But that only heats from the bottom the candle warmer heats from the bottom and the top Which should release more delicious candle scent into the air so that’s happening.

It’s already working It smells like whatever this candle is I think it’s Caramel and sea salt is what it says on the candle, so I guess that’s what it’s supposed to smell like it’s good It’s nice, so I’ve got faux heat from a lamp.

That’s not a lit candle and my space heater or Mini split my mini split running in the office so the office is not freezing, but man the other parts of the downstairs pretty cold So hopefully they’ll come hopefully they’ll fix it so quickly and I won’t go broke anyway I hope you’re having a wonderful Wednesday December 4th, and boy.

I can’t wait to see what we’re talking about next time Lex You