Help me troubleshoot.

The house is heated by a gas boiler. Today, it's not kicking on.

The thermostat has working batteries and is displaying both the correct temperature and the "heat on" light.

The furnace is not out of water.

All appropriate lights are lit on the furnace, so we can be reasonably certain that it isn't a device-specific power outage.

Turning the "boiler on/off" switch at the top of the stairs did nothing, so power cycling isn't the solution.

Is there anything else I can try (that won't burn the house down!) before I call the repairman?

Finally approaching the end of Season 3 of Supergirl.

Watching with Jenn, so I haven't seen the season finale yet. I keep screaming "STOP BEING SUCH A FASCIST!" at the screen, though, at Kara.

Anyway, since Jenn's out I decided to watch something else, and I must say Netflix's algorithm works pretty well on a lot less data than Amazon's algorithm does (seriously why do you keep recommending books I have no interest in, Amazon?) and I'm watching this historical medical drama set in Germany. Filmed in Germany too, they all speak German. I cringe every time one of those doctors touches somebody with his bare hands. I have two burning questions though.

First, just now the new Empress misquoted Shakespeare and attributed it to Goethe ("more things on heaven and earth") and obviously the point of the quote is to show she's not have as erudite as she'd like to believe, but is it a Shakespeare quote in German or just in the subtitles? It wouldn't do me very much good if it was some other well known German writer, but maybe the intended audience would do better?

Secondly, same episode the particularly dour and humorless matron wants all her staff to scrub the walls with bread and why bread? Is that like how you can use stale bread to erase pencil from paper?

I'm taking a break from TV for a few because this couple outside is having a long, protracted, and i will say very boring fight about how he took her phone and/or her headphones and she wants at least one of those back and he's insisting he didn't and would like her to go away. Instead of watching TV I'm focusing on the thorny question of "Is this fight about to get violent, and if so, would calling the police improve matters?"

I think they've calmed down now, though, which means that not calling anybody was probably the right move.

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My mother pointed out that the furnace is probably still under warranty

so I'll just try that and stop worrying.