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Georg fixed the hot water heater! Georg fixed the hot water heater!

It turns out it was the thermostat after all. After waiting a couple of hours for the tank to heat up, I took a long, long shower this evening and I have to say I have never had a better shower in my life. As Georg said, "Civilization may have its disaffects, but this isn't one of them."

We're going to go ahead and have the instant water heater put in anyway; the old one is all rusty, so who knows how long it would last, and it wasn't producing much hot water anyway. But this way we're not under any urgency to get the plumber et al in as fast as possible. The plumber has to come in and do the initial setup, then the electrician and the heating company come to do the thermostat and the gas line, respectively, and then the plumber comes back to move the water line to the new heater and get it all running. The plumber is trying to fit us in around other bigger jobs, so there may be some scheduling involved. But it's OK, because we have hot water!

In other news, I got a photo of our new table with the tablecloth and candles (also courtesy of Ikea) all set up. The new sideboard is visible in the corner of the room. We're still using the mismatched thrift store chairs, but I kind of like that.

Also I finally got back on the stick about reviewing for the radio station. I gave Georg 3 reviews to turn in (I was busy with the aforementioned shower so I wasn't going anywhere). Good stuff too: Torch, a collection of downtempo/nujazz torch songs from Six Degrees; a terrific new album from some dreamy Norwegian electronic group called Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band; and Dimitri from Paris' classic Sacrebleu for backfill. Unfortunately, I was a bit late getting them printed out and taped to the CD cases, and by the time he got there they had already finished printing labels. So my reviewed CDs won't go up until next week. Ah well. I'll try to review a few more before then so that next week I'll have tons of reviews and people will think I've been really industrious.