Oh yeah.

[cjsmith]

me: Hi! You around?
rfrench: Yep. Afternoon flight cancelled due to burst water heater
me: Ugh! ...ours?
rfrench: We don't have a water heater
me: Oh yeah!

I forgotted. :-)

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

No water heater? How very European of you!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

At the friends' where we're staying in Ipswich, we were cautioned that the thermostat for the furnace needs to be turned up (it's one thet's programmed to go down during the day when no one is usually home) in order to have hot water for the shower. It took M & B a year of living in this house to figure out the relationship.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Or Egyptian, or Japanese, or Finnish, or... really any place I've ever been except here. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh interesting! How does that work?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, there's no separate water heater, but rather some sort of exchanger that has coils of plumbing that go through a section of the furnace. I haven't spent much time looking at it - they have a serious horror-flick basement here :-)

[gdaniels.livejournal.com]

...do you mean you in fact have a tankless water heater? Or literally no water heater at all? (brr!)

(*wave*, btw - I just noticed you here the other day, and then discussed you fondly at dinner with Hal and Jodie, who you may remember from good ol' NHS)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I hate when planes' water heaters burst.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hi hi hi! Long time no see! I do remember Jodie but I'm embarrassed to say I'm blanking on Hal. Tall, short? Theater, band, mathy-geek, other?

Yes, we have a tankless heater now. "Not the kind that can burst" was the point I'd forgotten. We installed the tankless and got rid of two conventional water heaters about a year ago. LOVE IT -- if only for the extra closet space! :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

How unusual! It makes lots of sense (well, unless for some reason you want hot water during the summer) but I've never seen anyone do it that way.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

PI DAY ICON! You win!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

It's my default today, so it might change tomorrow. But yeah. How could I not. :D

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I feel I must report that in honor of Pi Day I have purchased pies for everyone in our office to share. Whether that makes me a geek, a dork, or just quirky and fun is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)