Gracie could feel the acid churning in his stomach and creeping up his throat; his head was swimming… She’s had too much to drink, but cynthia had been topping his up all evening. Gracie had meant to keep herself to a limit, but she’d let things slide—she didn’t know how else he was supposed to get through the evening, however now he has no idea how much wine he drank while in this interminable dinner gathering. When he got to his location, he could barely walk and only made it as far as the couch. Somewhere in the evening, he fumbled for the fleece blanket he kept on the sofa and passed out again. By day he was so freezing he thought all the drinking had made his fall ill. She reset the thermostat to crank up the heating device to make up for falling body temperature. The learnings were so low he knew something was wrong with the boiler. She called the heating company instantly for heating repair. When the Heating & A/C professional asked his what had happened, he was in no frame of mind to explain, not that he would remember, so he just told him he was away and just came back to a non-functional electric heater. The heating supplier confirmed that they would send help by noon, in the meantime, he had the fireplace to keep it warm. At around half past noon, a heating worker arrived. Gracie showed his to the Heating & A/C replacement and left him with it. After a thorough inspection, the repairman from the heating dealership found that all it needed was heater service, and it was nice to go. Gracie did not have the heating equipment tuned up the previous year, which must have caused the malfunction. The Heating & A/C professional was done in an hour.