There's been no hot water all day and the public spaces are very cold, with the front desk staff all bundled up in coats and such. It seems the central boiler system went on the fritz and an emergency call has been placed to the contractor. My room is all cozy warm because all the rooms have an individual heating/AC unit... but we would like a shower. The prognosis ain't all that rosy, tho. The front desk lady told me "We hope to have it fixed today." Well, I hope so too.
Dude, I hope they're at least givin' ya a fat discount.
ReplyDeleteBath's are nice, but I wish they would move the drain higher. I like to be submerged like in a pool. I've been looking for one as a retrofit. Mine has a whirlpool but I never use it, as it takes hours to clean, and merely annoys me.
ReplyDeleteI like to read in the bath with silence, and it usually takes me an hour to complete all phases of lounging and cleaning...
Man, and I thougt that I had all the fun. Seems to me you've been going from one wreck to another! Sorry, but I really did laugh out loud. (to the point of almost spewing beer all over my computer screen)
ReplyDeleteBTW did you get over to the Casa de Movil? Enquiring minds need to know these things.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a stay a couple of years ago at the Navy Lodge at the jet base in Fort Worth. My 6 year old and I spent a freezing snowy sleety Thanksgiving there without hot water. The option was to check into the Q on base but they didn't have heat.... Sometimes it's just not worth getting out of bed. :)
ReplyDeleteReading in the tub is one of the good things.
I hope they're at least givin' ya a fat discount.
ReplyDeleteWell, I AM gettin' the military discount (rate)... ;-)
I wish they would move the drain higher.
This is one area where the furriners have it ALL over us, most notably the Nihonjin. Every cheap-ass apartamento in Tokyo has a gas-fired, full immersion tub. And man, are they great. TSMP and I always said we'd have a Japanese-style bath were we ever to build our dream home. Even the Rooshians have deep, full-length tubs and I remarked on that fact in the Moscow post I wrote a while back.
BTW did you get over to the Casa de Movil?
Nope. It never got above 17 degrees today... around zero with wind chill... still too cold for me.
But the hot water returned around 1600 hrs; O! Happy Day!
Sometimes it's just not worth getting out of bed. :)
ReplyDeleteHeh. I hear THAT, Curtis!
Hang in there, Buck, July's comin', or so I've heard.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are in hot water soon. I'm thinking the fixed address is not a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteStaci, screw July!
ReplyDeleteSeptember's coming!!!
Buck, with all of the problems of late, you must be feeling a little snake bit by now!
ReplyDeleteA bathtub...sigh. If only.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I've been living for the last 2.5 years in a Senior Community (ahem,) which is something I swore I'd never do. No tubs, but: unlimited hot water for showers, a new building which is well-insulated and secure (despite the local Carefree Latin Lifestyle with the concomitant gangbangers and Free!! late-night Norteno concerts from the drive-by concert halls,) warm and pretty quiet all told.
I lived in a "mobile home park" for three years previous, which was replete with tweakers, ex- and soon-to-be cons, and whores. The long-time residents were universally stuck-in-the-seventies hippies who were so open-minded their brains had long since leaked out, and the level of Tolerance and Understanding was such that the lowlife was preferred over the cops (Solidarity Against The Man, Man.) It was frankly the worst place I've ever been stuck in a long and checkered career.
Every time I start whining about being in a "community," it takes almost no time to start counting my blessings. There are worse things than a fixed address, Viejo.
wv=carecow. A lovingly well-endowed squeeze, mayhap?
Staci: There's warmth closer on the horizon than July, thank The Deity At Hand.
ReplyDeleteLou: I'm thinkin' the same thing about a fixed address, too. But there's lotsa stuff to do to make that a reality.
Andy: Aren't ya a lil old to still be doin' that "back to school" gig?
Ed: Not feelin' snake bit, not really. Just kinda "what next?"
Rob: I'm thinkin' about a "Senior Center." Seriously. DIL1's mom lives in one here in P-Ville and sez it's nice. I need to check that out a lil more... but I'm pretty sure I'd have to surrender my Tejas citizenship and become a New Mexican to move in there. I dunno if I'm ready for that.
Aren't ya a lil old to still be doin' that "back to school" gig?
ReplyDeleteNyuk.
Buck/
ReplyDeleteLOL. The grass is always greener on the other side. When I was at DaNang showers were all we had, so the 1st time I got a "weekend off" via a mini R&R to Bangkok for 2 days via an O-2 all I did after I checked in to the Siam Intercontinental (was BRAND NEW in 68) was soak in a tub for HOURS. Then when stationed in the UK all I had the 1st year was a tub in my Quonset-hut--couldn't wait to get to the base gym to take a shower! LOL.
I hear ya about the grass, Virgil. I RARELY soaked in the tub when I had one... unless it in company with The Second Mrs. Pennington. But that always made for a hella mess to clean up afterward. ;-)
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