I was kind of cold this morning, even with my adult size footed pajamas
(http://www.snugasabug.com/adult.polar.main.htm). So I decided to start a
fire. I had lot of wood on the balcony. The remains of my old entertainment
center that I had cut apart with a reciprocating saw (Skil 8.5 amp... it
rocks!) That and various recycling avoidance items... pizza boxes, cereal
boxes, soda case boxes, the plastic box my angel tree topper came in, etc.

So I get a good fire going with a few pieces of the entertainment center,
and after about twenty minutes the smoke detector goes off. WTF? No visible
smoke, and I could see the negative pressure pulling smoke up the chimney.
Just that normal odor from a fireplace. I guess the humidifier, sitting
close by, was taking smoke particles from that odor and transporting them
to the smoke detector. So I covered up the smoke detector with Saran wrap
and a rubber band, and moved the humidifier away from the fireplace.

So there I am, adding more wood when the fire died down. The thing was
getting hotter and hotter because of the coals on the bottom.

The fireplace poker really gets heated up when you are stoking a fire. Do
you know what else gets heated up while you are sitting there stoking a
fire? Zippers. Especially zippers that run from your neck all the way down
to your left inner thigh.

I went back and sat down in my computer chair and the zipper made contact
with my skin. It's a shame my wife wasn't here with the video camera to
shoot those dance moves. Britney Spears probably would have hired me for a
video after seeing them.