Happy Thanksgiving ...

[unixronin]

...or, not.  Our Thanksgiving surprise is our water heater spewing hot water all over the floor.  Chapter 2 was finding out that the inlet stopcock to said water heater doesn't actually seal, so in order to stop the buckets of water that we were bailing, I had to shut off all water to the house.

If we're lucky, the heater itself is OK, and it's just that the relief valve has failed -- and, being a relief valve, has done as intended and failed open.  However, because we're tenants, no plumber will touch it without prior authorization from our landlady -- and getting hold of her could take days, if not longer.  I've left email, and left messages on her home and cell phone, but ... frankly, I'll be surprised if we hear back before next week, which means we can expect to have no water for three or four days.

I guess we'll be going out tomorrow to buy three or four 5-gallon bottles of emergency drinking water.  Yippee.

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Heh. LJ comments have been late like that. Something about the switching of servers.

And yeah, it isn't that far to go to see people for an hour or so, but is far for showers and the like.

It's okay. The cake sort of fell to pieces. I'm planning on a cheesecake sometime soon. Chocolate orange again.