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I mean, if Copernicus keeps beating out SMOKEY ROBINSON, he'll forever be beating me out for the DAY, too. This doesn't seem quite fair because, after all, he was only the first white guy to figure it out, not the first human to grok where we are.
I am relieved to announce that the plumbing travesty has not put me in trouble with the credit union, but neither has it produced hot water. It's definitely warm water, but hot not. So I'm going to have to wait for those seriously capitalist plumbers to call me back and I'm sitting here remembering that the problem could as well be a failure of the electrical situation as a sluggish new water heater. At least I don't have to go running around begging for loans until I can find out. Better damn count my blessings.
I took a back road I'd never been on before home from asking the teller to give me an up-to-the-minute report on the dimensions of my no money. I found a gorgeous little itty bitty cabin back there in the trees that has a darn stunning view of the ocean. I looked very hard. There is no indication that it is for sale. How do I convince the owner to trade me? I mean, it's perfect. Perfect. The tub would probably have to go outside, but that's a great view for the bathtub too.
All last week it was what we call hot here. Everybody was commenting on it. The plumber had to take off his sweatshirt. I had to open extra windows. It was definitely July here last week. Last night it started to rain. Then it snowed. Today the hills are all white and people are groaning about not putting on enough clothes this morning. Couple this with the fact that, yet again, the National Weather Service has gotten the forecast dead bang right on the minute perfect many days in advance, and you will no doubt excuse me if I find all this just entirely too weird to be true....
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Happy Birthday Nines...here's hoping you can linger in a hot shower or bath soon...not a the quick in and out we do when the water is only luke warm...
ReplyDeleteThank you. The kid just left. He turned up the thermostat on it, did some tinkering. If it doesn't get hot enough now you'll probably hear me yelling from Detroit.
ReplyDeleteIt's really stupid to even try to have a soak with that ridiculous excuse for a "tub". It's so, so not-a-tub. You can't get your whole body in it at one time. You can do your lower half or part of your upper half, but not the whole shebang, at once. It's idiotic. I only even go there, not wanting to make myself more miserable, when I am particularly desperate. So then having the water be not even approximating hot... well... sheesh.
I bought the fixin's for a peach schnapps milkshake, while wearing my new chic t-shirt, for my big six-oh celebration tonight. Maybe if I get tipsy enough I will try the not-a-tub again. Or... I may just start casting about for the tub of my dreams and have them plumb it into the kitchen. Fuck tradition! I need a REAL bathtub!
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ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have an electric water heater and the top element is burned out. That is the one for fast recovery. The lower element takes a long time to heat the whole tank.
Around here it has been in the low 70's over the weekend. I had off from work yesterday so I was running around in shorts and tee-shirt in early afternoon. A little later I went to the store and was inside for about 45 minutes. When I came back out of the store the wind was howling and the temperature had dropped from near 70 to 42 degrees. Today it rained.
Actually, it warmed up the water immediately... really, really fast... it just didn't get hotter than warm after that. He put it in last Friday afternoon, and it didn't get hotter than warm in all the time since. So either he just didn't set the thing to get hot enough or something's seriously wrong. If it isn't hot enough by tomorrow morning, I'm right back on the phone to them. I just hope it's not the house wiring gone too wussy for this action. That happened to me back in my cabin in the woods and the stove. The burners would only heat up to luke warm. I could put my hand on them. It wasn't the stove. It was the antique wiring. The good sign is that my broken water heater heated the water much better than the new one. So whatever it is, it's more likely to be on THEIR nickel now instead of mine. They got some real money for that damn thing. I should have some hot water.
ReplyDeleteLOL... I just got up to go rinse out my coffee cup. The water is HOT! Half hour the kid's been gone. Really hot water now.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, and many more, Nines !
ReplyDelete... had a feeling given some time it would warm up sufficiently.
Well, some time and a little nudge from a screwdriver here and there.... Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSo, hey, why settle for a bathtub that just sits in the bathroom or on your porch?
ReplyDeleteYou need one you can take out on a drive down Hwy 1.
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Yeah, I think that would make me seasick.... ;p
ReplyDeleteI see Andy Powell on that list. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteAnd Seal.... Thanks.
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