inahandbasket | (no subject)

Holy shit that was scary.

Came home at 11ish from an evening of playing Magic: The Gathering (yes, the card game) with some fellow old-school dorks, got dropped off at the apartment, walked up the steps and opened the door. Thereup, I was greeted by the overwhelming stench of natural gas.*
Freaked out, I ran into the bedroom and started shaking my dear

prosicated, who didn't respond for a good 5 seconds. As you can imagine I was duly freaking at this point, but true to my form I wasn't shouting but just quietly... well... freaked out.

Finally she did wake up, and said "oh god, it does smell like gas in here..."
Like I needed the vindication. I almost had a headache already from the strength of it.

As it turns out, one of the burners wasn't all the way turned off, and had been slowly leaking for a number of hours into the apartment.
The cats are both fine,

prosicated is also fine (and already back asleep), but damn that was a scary moment. I won't be sleeping for at least another hour, by then hopefully my heart will have stopped pounding.

*Yes, I know natural gas is odorless, but they cut it with methane for just such occurances. So you can smell leaks.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

fascinating, good to know!
I'd always heard that it was methane they added. hunh!
*research*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas

NG is apparently mostly methane, so it's certainly not a trace additive.
learn something new every day...

(and it wasn't my fault! she and

rainbowspork cooked while I was out!)

Yeah, most of the "-ane" gasses are odorless (and generally colorless) which is why almost all of them have some type of odorant added. I want to say the mercaptan is detectable at .01 parts per million or something along those lines. It's very odiferous.

If I do any late night cooking while I'm there I'll be sure to turn off the stove.

On an unrelated note, should I bring a deck of Magic cards with me? It's been eons since I've played but I still have some good stuff.

Sure! I only have one deck right now, all my old cards are still in repose at my parent's house outside Philly. But if you're down for some old-school dorkiness, grab a deck or two.
Maybe we'll even send the girls out one evening, round up the usual suspects, and you can meet some Boston geeks while we all get our game on. ^_^

Mine as well are still hanging out at my parent's house. I'll have to invite myself over for dinner one evening so I can get at the cards and build a deck. I'm sure the ladies would love a chance to get away from the dorkiness for the evening so that wouldn't be too hard to swing.

That settles it. I am so freaking visiting you guys in Boston. Soon. Haven't played Magic in donkey's years!

bwahahahaha!
soooooon my precious, we will lure THEM ALL BACK!

That sound you hear is me laughing at the notion that I contributed in anyway to the cooking. Though it was really only reheating anyway.