Power Outage 2

.....continued from yesterday post.

We woke up the morning after the power outage to this....

One Blank Faced Thermostat and NO HEAT

Two red flashing Clocks

and a cold, dark and empty Coffee Maker.

and no partridge in a pear tree, or tree for him to be in. 

First things First. 

I pushed the manual ON button and waited to hear it burble.

As it burbled, I muttered.

The house temp was 64, out side was 48. 

I stood staring at the blank screen of the thermostat. No idea how to program it.

As I gathered flashlight from kitchen, large magnifier glass from drawer

I muttered 

"why would they make a thermostat I can't SEE"

shine flash light on it

"tiny letters, can't even read"

hold magnifier in front of it

"why would they install the thing with out battery backup if they make it programable"

only have 2 hands, how do I push what I can't see

'why would they make a thermostat a #$@%% computer"

I could see one tiny word, 

PROGRAM

I lay down the glass and punch the button under the word program.

you do not want me to repeat the rest of my mutters.

I did it, the heat came on.

I rant and rave about the installer  who did not put a battery back up in it. the one who said, I will program it for you and LEFT without instructions or a manual.

A few days before I had called the installer to find out what I had, and how to change from AC to Heat.

Also watched  YouTube video twice, just to do that.

Lucky me. I vaguely remembered seeing him program it.

I can tell you my parents would never have been able to turn the heat on.

Next stop was 2 RED Numbers FLASHING clocks.

Seems we neglected to replace the back up batteries to hold during power outage 

Unprintable mutterings, use your imagination. 

let me mention that at what I thought was midnight because the flashing clock said 12:00 while flashing, I took the midnight antiviral pill while half asleep  and who knows what the real time was when I took it.

I stormed walked in the kitchen to the

Now full of coffee, coffee maker,  with Two Things to Program

I take two sips of coffee, while once again trying to use a flashlight, magnifiers and push buttons that I can't SEE.

All this for a two hour power failure and the scary thing is, even a 2 minute power failure can do the same thing.