So remember the whole "If the stopgap oil lasts" bit?
It lasted about a quarter as long as it needed to. Now I'm struggling to get money into the right fucking state because I'm not there right now, but even if I can do that and stop things from rupturing between now and when the actual lasting oil arrives, I'm still completely screwed because the money I'm spending on stopgap oil is coming straight from money that I need for the god damned regular oil order.
Among the myriad reasons why one gets regular oil from people who deliver it in trucks with one giant tank on the back instead of a handful of five gallon containers is this:
The amount of stopgap oil it will take to last the nine fucking days from now until when the regular oil arrives will cost (this is a very rough estimate) about $200. Now with the price of oil at better than $2 a gallon, I couldn't actually make a $200 order from a regular provider given a minimum order of 100 gallons, but if I could I guarantee you it would last longer than nine god damned days.
Oil from non-traditional sources is expensive. (Think of it as a bulk discount when buying from actual heating oil companies.)
So, I'm utterly screwed. I'm going to pay to keep the heat going (and thus the system from rupturing) but it means that I've got nothing to pay the actual ordeal-ending order with save faith.
I'm tired. I'm sad all the time. I'm low on energy. I'm out of faith.
To the people who helped me out, thank you so much. I might have only gotten around to making the update earlier today, but I've actually had hope for days. It was nice while it lasted. You did what you could, and at any other time it would have been enough. I'd have had my tank more than half full days ago.
The fact that the problem wasn't, ultimately, solved doesn't make me appreciate what you did any less.
It lasted about a quarter as long as it needed to. Now I'm struggling to get money into the right fucking state because I'm not there right now, but even if I can do that and stop things from rupturing between now and when the actual lasting oil arrives, I'm still completely screwed because the money I'm spending on stopgap oil is coming straight from money that I need for the god damned regular oil order.
Among the myriad reasons why one gets regular oil from people who deliver it in trucks with one giant tank on the back instead of a handful of five gallon containers is this:
The amount of stopgap oil it will take to last the nine fucking days from now until when the regular oil arrives will cost (this is a very rough estimate) about $200. Now with the price of oil at better than $2 a gallon, I couldn't actually make a $200 order from a regular provider given a minimum order of 100 gallons, but if I could I guarantee you it would last longer than nine god damned days.
Oil from non-traditional sources is expensive. (Think of it as a bulk discount when buying from actual heating oil companies.)
So, I'm utterly screwed. I'm going to pay to keep the heat going (and thus the system from rupturing) but it means that I've got nothing to pay the actual ordeal-ending order with save faith.
I'm tired. I'm sad all the time. I'm low on energy. I'm out of faith.
To the people who helped me out, thank you so much. I might have only gotten around to making the update earlier today, but I've actually had hope for days. It was nice while it lasted. You did what you could, and at any other time it would have been enough. I'd have had my tank more than half full days ago.
The fact that the problem wasn't, ultimately, solved doesn't make me appreciate what you did any less.
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