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Regrettable Signs You Got
Off the Monster High Train at the
Right Time : You see that an official Mattel Facebook/Twitter/Whatever The Kids
Are Using These Days invites all and sundry to view their latest DVD release,
referring to the latest epic as the next ‘boovie’ (movie). Between that and the
Littlest Pet Shop ripoff Secret Creepers line, I think Mattel’s starting to skew too young for me.
Even though some new photos
have surfaced – various characters wearing what look like pop-in DracuLaura
teeth – I’m still not much interested. Maybe if they were all wearing glasses… Although
I think the teeth are clever, and wonder a bit what the ghouls look like under
the fangs. Hey, one of ‘em was a Ghoulia, first I’ve seen since Scaris or Ghouls Night Out. I hosted a fun mental image of Slo Mo imploring
Mattel’s board of directors, ‘Please ! Fewer Ghoulias ! I’m only one
man-zombie, okay ?!’.
OK. Now that it’s resolved,
I can tell ya’ll what’s kept me so busy all week. You may remember a few weeks
back, we bought a used tankless water heater off Craigslist to replace the
other one we bought off Craigslist that began flooding the garage part of the
Garpartment. It’s why I dragged that mountain of dirty clothes the Laundromat –
I didn’t want to make more of a flooded, soggy, humid mess back there. Well,
Beloved Hubby’s current Job From Hades was finally officially over Friday, but
the old water heater went replonza on Tueday. He got the old one out and the
‘new’ one in Wednesday, but it didn’t work. So we ordered a brand-new one from
Amazon, and it arrived Friday.
Since we had the down time,
Beloved re-tiled the tub. It. Is. GORGEOUS ! I felt so luxurious using it
today, but I’m getting ahead of m’self.
Anyway, the new one arrived… and
it didn’t work either. Well, skittles. He tried everything, and we were at Home
Despot so much, I thought they’d start charging us rent for the parking space,
still nothin’. I’ve been going along with him, helping with tiling, keeping him
company, holding flashlights, locating lost tools and pieces, matching receipts
to returns, the usual. Then, Beloved realized he’d always installed the water
heaters the same way, based on how the old one –the one FIL (or somebody)
reportedly paid $1200. to have professionally done – was placed. He wondered if
one segment was backwards, and it turned out, it was. I have no idea how any of
these water heaters have ever worked now ! He tried again with the newest one.
And it worked. A little.
It’d take me too long to get
into how tankless water heaters work, plus there’s a good chance you already
know more than me about it ! Suffice it to say water and gas need to be at
certain use levels for it to activate. Those tested fine. The brand new water
heater was all over the place. A shower would keep getting hotter – a rare
experience in my life, they usually get colder ! – then suddenly you were
bathing in a tricking mountain stream. In January. It couldn’t stay constant to
save its copper.
So Beloved ripped it out and
put in the Craigslist one. And it works perfectly. No fine tuning, no ‘sweet
spot’ that had to be found and prayed over. It’s worked and it still does.
Amazon has already accepted the return, UPS will be here Monday to pick up the
new one, and issue us a refund in about a week.
(grin) We’re taking that
money and buying a new-to-us gas wall oven next week. I can’t wait – but I’m
also a little scared…
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