{"id":9050,"date":"2007-10-25T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/9050\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:13","slug":"9050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/9050\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9763-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9763-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is something about that smell of dust burning off of the burner (and I presume A coil and whatnot) that will always remind me of that time of year. All of you in the midwest, all you <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_cities_vowel_shift\">Northern Cities Shifters<\/a> know&#8230; That time of year when the furnace is first turned on, the burner comes to life, heat is working for the winter, and the faint &#8220;oh, the furnace is on&#8221; smell fills the air.<\/p>\n<p>Mmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s amazing what my neighbors throw out in the trash. When taking out the trash on this previous Sunday there was a box sitting atop the pile of bags holding two <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9742-scaled.jpg\">GENERALAire 990-13 Evaporation Pads<\/a>. That is, the media required for the most popular centrally installed humidifier made, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalaire.com\/assets\/pdf\/Legacy_1042_series_.pdf\">GENERALAire 1042<\/a>. The design of this humidifier will make it last essentially forever, provided one changes the media. You know, the bits that they threw out.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, at least I got some free media out of it&#8230; I think these cost around US$15 each, beyond being a bit of a hassle to get.<\/p>\n<p>(It is currently 69\u00b0F in my house, and I suspect that it&#8217;ll be around 62\u00b0F by the time I wake up. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s cold enough to require the furnace. The blanket does a plenty good job keeping me warm and snuggly comfy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about that smell of dust burning off of the burner (and I presume A coil and whatnot) that will always remind me of that time of year. All of you in the midwest, all you Northern Cities Shifters know&#8230; That time of year when the furnace is first turned on, the burner\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24652,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions\/24652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}