Gas Leak under Cranefly Abode

[Greg]

That's good news. Warm showers are for the weak.

[cranefly]

There's now an odd twist to the impending resolution.  One of the repairmen called LCF back, and when she explained the situation and the parts soon to arrive, and the labor authorization code, he said he had the upgraded manifold door we needed and could install it immediately.  There'd be no charge, if we just gave him the labor authorization code.  As for the parts soon to arrive (including the Honeywell natural gas valve control, which he doesn't feel will need to be replaced), we can just keep them.,  After all, all he's interested in is getting paid).

So...  He's supposed to come noonish today.

Of course, we've sort of paid him already, with the labor authorization code.  But still, what have we come to if we can't extend a modicum of trust in this divisive hate-mongering paranoid climate?

Don't answer that.

[cranefly]

Hmmm.  Too quiet outside.

He's been working at it over 1 and a half hours.  I'd hear the gas water heater if it was going.  Must be a complication.

[Drunk Monk]

[cranefly]

I just watched the Falcon 9 launch, which, come to think of it, closely resembles a water heater tank going through the roof.

Anyway, yeah, the repairman says he has to replace the natural gas valve control after all.

Some tremendous grunting out there just now.  LCF's brother in law is big and strong; he really tightens connections.  I wonder if that's the problem now.

[Drunk Monk]

[cranefly]

Just to update you, yes, the repairman finally got it going.  It took him about 4 hours.  Wow.

Anyway, we celebrated by taking a hot shower.  I'd almost forgotten what it feels like to live in a corrupt excessively opulent first-world country.

In the evening, for further celebration, I watched Meet Him and Die (1976), an Italian film starring Ray Lovelock as a cop going undercover.  It also has Elke Sommer in it.  She was my teenage heart-throb.  It was a surprisingly good actioner, more brutal than I would have thought, and with lots of little twists.

Afterwards, I took a cold shower.

[Drunk Monk]

Yay!

Good one on Elke and the cold shower. I always loved her name. 

[thatguy]

There's a good (very mellow) song by Camel called "Elke". It has Brian Eno on it. It's very Eno-esque... I always wondered where the name might have come from.

--tg