This trick seems to be above and beyond anything a simple burglar would pull. I don't get it. I would expect anyone who wanted to set a fire would do it with the abundant paper that was in the room or maybe would bring along some gas or other accelerant. This is a few levels beyond that.

Mary, I didn't lose anything important from the mainland. At least nothing that I know of yet. All my CDs were downstairs though there was a rack with cassettes in it on the floor of the fire room. I haven't had time to check on them.

Carol, if and when I can afford to buy another computer I hope to be able to get one of those fancy monitors.

I just remembered something fun. A friend has a bunch of computer monitors he bought from some kind of surplus sale. He's been trying to sell them to us since then. Maybe I could get one of those, plug it in, put a pillow on it, stick a thermometer next to it and put it in a closed space. Then I could see what happened.