Handyman...Not ! I like to think of myself as fairly handy around the house. I paint, do some basic carpentry, cut the grass, replace glass and re-glaze windows etc but I sure felt inadequate today. Our furnace would not turn on last night. We were very lucky it was so warm but still it was a bit unnerving. I checked the circuit breaker and the furnace itself and found no apparent problem. I was stumped. We called the furnace guy and by that time we thought the problem was in the thermostat. Sure enough it was. It needed two new double A batteries. I thought the thermostat was hard wired into the electrical system. Silly me. If you have one of these programmable thermostats flip open the door to get to the programming menu then pull of that face plate. The furnace dude suggested replacing the batteries on a schedule. When we go back to Daylight Saving time we should replace the batteries in our smoke detectors and our programmable thermostats. Who knew ? Not me.  ¶ 10:19 PM