wimminz is ungreatful

Ouch! Maybe get some estimates on what the pros charge for that job, just to set the proper context.

Is this the same lass that you fretted over in the hospital not long ago? I hope that both of you are able to get past the stress of her illness and the impending bills somehow.

Mebbe let her know about this as a way to make it up to you:

I should do that actually. :)

Yeah, it's nice being able to shake my fist and bitch at and about her again. I get it right back, believe me. :)

just burn the steak anyway, or boil it, or otherwise find some way to ruin the flavor and make the whole experience miserable. To say nothing of the other half of it. :)

Valentine's Day next year is going to suck. It's officially The Day Bubby Died Day now. :(

Silvan wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.com:

I'm an experienced homeowner. Water heaters are one of my nemisises (OK, Herr Doktor English Professor - you make a plural of nemisis!)

And it is Holy Writ in 4 of the Western World's leading religions that EVERY plumbing job takes three trips to the hardware store.

Propane torch. Natural gas. Soldering equipment. Large tanks, of questionable structural integrity, full of calcium deposits. ADRENALINE. Frustration. Testosterone.

Calculate the permutations.

Glad you survived. For giggles, turn off the gas on your way to work Tuesday. See how long before your cell phone rings. Or, less deviously, spill a couple of quarts of water under the tank.

Patriarch

Silvan wrote in news:0 snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.com:

Which is _really_ convenient when what you _needed_ was help with the water heater.

Wanna help with the new shower stall?

Patriarch

Confirmed by looking in ye olde paper dictionary.

Unless you really screw it up, then it's more like six.

No natural gas here, but it was plenty scary enough doing water connections within squirting distance of my service panel. Especially considering what that LAST plumbing job looked like, the first time, after only three trips to the store.

Nah, let's just let the blasted thing do its job and forget about it for 30 years. :)

Sure, it's a date. :)

Dad helped me wrangle the thing into place, BTW. I'm not superman.

Then you can pretty well rest assured that your buddies *don't* want to show you the kind of appreciation you were expecting from SWMBO.

Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 9:53pm (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@nospam.invalid (Han) asks: I have a gas-fired heater. How do I replace the element?

I don't know the details, but you dump the gas burner, make a fire box, and convert it to wood-burning. No prob.

JOAT Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

- David Fasold

SWMBO can burn Froot Loops, but since we've been hitched she's learned a couple of recipies. One of 'em is a nice steak. It really isn't that hard:

That's a pretty sad statement.

Is this the same woman you've poured your heart out over time and time again over the past several weeks, or did you go and find a new wife?

As with most of your posts, I take this with a grain of salt, knowing that most are very "tongue-in-cheek"

This one specifically, since you recently found out how easy HER house work and stuff were, right? lol

mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

Now just wait until she tells you that the old heater worked just as well if not better....

Well, so it's a sad statement? What do you propose I do about it? Tie a porkchop around my neck?

Same one. All healed up, so now I get to complain about her again. :)

Hey, don't cry for poor SWMBO. She reads all my stuff, and gets a kick out of it.

I second the "plumbing instead of in-laws" remark.

When in-laws descend I will bus tables, clean up, or make ten trips to the store to avoid the face time. And plumbing would fit right in there. Maybe I should clog my own toilet so I could manufacture some work.

RonT

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Ron Truitt) wrote in news:25646-421D3DEC-110@storefull-

Several years ago, I figured that, rather than go across town to the Thanksgiving feast, we should do it at our place. We invited 25, and 43 showed up. My eldest son managed to get the hall bathroom sink 'installed' at 2:30 pm, using silicone sealant, piping from a disused rug cleaner, and parts scavenged from the sink in the wet bar.

We had a great time. I worked my butt off all day and all night, then disappeared for the next three days.

NEVER tempt the plumbing spirits by working on critical systems, when the supply house is closed. Even if you swear that everything you need is on the shelf in the shed.

Patriarch

invite us.

That might work for a while and the neighborhood dogs would certainly be friendlier to you, but it'd probably start to stink after a while.