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Reassuring Odor

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 09:20am on 2006-05-01 under ,

Last night I found the scent of cooking beef ... very reassuring.

Yah, I'm a vegetarian. To me it's a neutral, not-food smell. It's not appetizing (though neither is it disgusting -- it was that for a few months many years ago when I hadn't been vegetarian for very long yet, but now it's pretty much neutral most of the time).

So, not appetizing but still reassuring? Yes, because once the scent of the cooking of cowmeat arrived, I could finally stop trying to guess whether the smoke I'd been smelling was one of the adjacent houses on fire.

No, it was just the next-door neighbours having a cookout in their back yard. *whew*

No water heater yet, but one of the plumbers I'd attempted to contact did call me back to tell me a ballpark figure for what the job ought to cost and to refer me to one of his friends because he was too busy. "Water heaters are my specialty, but I just started a job that'll keep me busy the whole week, so let me give you the number of another guy..."

In the meantime, I just got worrisome news regarding the health of a family member. Argh. (Not sure how public to be with the info yet. But that much is enough to let y'all know some of what's on my mind.

Back to the clinic this morning ...

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posted by [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com at 02:57pm on 2006-05-01
Good luck at the clinic.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 08:58pm on 2006-05-01
Thanks. Survived it, but apparently my veins get harder to find the hungrier I get. So very tired now.
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posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 07:01pm on 2006-05-01
What kind of water heater? Gas or electric or something else? Tank style or tankless? I might
be able to repair/replace it for you.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 08:51pm on 2006-05-01
30 gallon, gas (though it's a bit small so I'm hoping an upgrade to 40 gallons won't be much more, if this one can't be repaired). Leaking pretty impressively; not counting on repair being practical (but willing to be surprised). Each time I let water into it to try to eke out ooooone more shower, it leaks out faster than the time before.

Any help gratefully accepted. You actually have time for this sort of project?
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posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 10:26pm on 2006-05-01
Hmmm, I don't consider myself qualified for gasfitting, but I could take a look at it.
Generally, when a tank-style water heater leaks, it's either a fitting or the tank. The
gas ones have fewer fittings, so it's even more likely the tank, which isn't really fixable.
You could replace it with a tankless one, it would cost more than a tank-type
unit, but give you higher efficiency and effectively unlimited capacity. I could hook
up everything but the gas and then the plumber (or gasman) wouldn't charge you so
much.


As for time, that's always up in the air. I'm slated to spend a lot of my time at a
customer site in Crystal City in the upcoming weeks, which should make hash of
my schedule in general.

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