The Wonders of a Working Heater

Well, the heater more or less works. Huzzah! Leaving it on full blast (for the hours when it works at all), I am no longer cold when dressed in several layers. So I guess we won't freeze to death after all.

Whereas the heater does not always work when it should, the oven sometimes works when it shouldn't. I have to remember to turn the whole stove/oven off at the wall because otherwise the main oven works at some reasonably-low temperature full time even when set to "off." Disturbing. And did I mention yet that a 7'x2' section of the kitchen ceiling caved in? Yes, about a month and a half ago. And yes the landlord knows. He had the rubble cleared away but hasn't done anything about fixing the ceiling nor checking to make sure the rest of the ceiling isn't likely to follow it. I'm therefore a bit nervous about time spent in the kitchen, always alert for any sign that it's time to run. On the plus side, the hole revealed more window so there is now more natural light in the kitchen. (To clarify, the ceiling in the main room is not subject to the same fate. The building is one those old high-ceilinged tenement buildings that has been converted to be a set of sort-of bed-sits, that is, six or seven almost-studio-apartments except that everyone has to share the two bathrooms. Some just have kitchens worked into the one room; our kitchen is behind one of the bathrooms and is more of its own room. I guess they felt the high ceiling was weird in such a tiny closet-like space and they put in a false ceiling, less than an inch thick, at a more "normal" ceiling hight. That is what caved in.)