there’s a war going on in the Middle East. Since I don’t look at any ‘news’ at all anywhere, I only find out these things when people tell me. TBH there’s been a war going on in the Middle East forever, and it’s never going to stop. The people who live and occupy the place thrive on conflict. Will fish one day decide that they don’t need water? Peace is never gonna happen there. It used to be that every American president when first elected to office, would announce that they would finally make sure that there was peace in the Middle East. The first person to not do that as far as I know, was Trump, but then to progressives, he’s an idiot, so of course he wouldn’t want to try and fix a problem that absolutely nobody, since 1948 has been able to fix. When I talk to these “Trump is an idiot” people I like to find out why they think that way. I can never get a satisfactory answer. It most always ends with, “I don’t wanna talk about it”. Another good one is, “I’ve got to go now.” I really do understand where they’re coming from, and I shouldn’t even ask the question in the first place, but I do. Fish aren’t going to decide that they don’t need water. That would be an evolutionary thing to do, and it takes centuries, if not millenia.
This guy – Not an idiot. Perfectly normal situation.
Moving on from that, since I have very little idea of what’s happening in the world, I have to rely on what I’m doing and thinking about to continue communicating anything meaningful on this page. It doesn’t even have to be meaningful , it just has to be something…. I decided after yesterday’s drain clog nightmare, that I would try and drag everything out of the bottom of the pipe. Gravity should help, I just need a longish metal bar with a hook at the end. Something I don’t have laying around. Tonight’s Powerball lottery jackpot is $1.73 billion, and the cash payout is $756.6 million. If I should win I’d get someone to make me a solid gold bar with a hook at the end of it. Last night I turned on the pilot light for the boiler in the basement. This is the thing that heats the whole house in winter via the old fashioned water heater units that are in every room. It runs on natural gas, something that the experts who run NYC have decided that people shouldn’t be using anymore.
I sincerely hope that this is an electric vehicle.
Natural gas is cheaper than oil. The old boiler that I replaced with this gas one, used about 250 gallons of oil in about a month. It was cracked so it was even more inefficient. You’d be having a shower and it would suddenly turn from hot to freezing cold while you had soap in your hair. I over calculated how many BTUs we would need for the new one, and now there is an industrial size boiler sitting down there. The place will never be cold again. I also side stepped the boiler heating the hot water, and had an on demand gas water heater installed separately. These used to be everywhere in Australia and probably everywhere, until the energy companies persuaded everyone that heating up your hot water in a large tank in off peak times was cheaper and more efficient. It was neither of these things.
Don’t tell me…the water’s gone cold?
All night long this tank would be heating water in case you might want a shower or some hot water. If you didn’t use it, it just kept heating up the water in case you did. Finally, when you and three other people wanted a shower or (god forbid) a bath, at the same time, the thing would inevitably run out of hot water. There was no way you could get it hot again until the tank was replenished, which took hours. It was a dumb idea, one of many that people are persuaded or (usually forced) to adopt in the name of progress and saving the planet. It’s usually an enrichment scheme for the people who are forcing it on you.