I’ve been bad at keeping up with this blog again… truth is, though, I wouldn’t be updating right now except that I’m stuck at home waiting to see if I have a working water heater or not.
I had some weird electrical problems this past weekend, where basically my entire living room lost power without tripping any of the fuses. It then mysteriously came back, then mysteriously went away again. Right now I’m running all of my living room equipment off of an extension cord.
But then this morning I noticed I had no hot water. My first reaction was to think “oh great, now my water heater’s gone and busted itself as well”, but then I figured it was more likely tied to the electrical problem I was having in my living room. Except that water heaters are on their own circuit… when I checked the fuse panel a third time, I noticed that one of the double-throw switches wasn’t entirely in the “on” position… I must have failed to turn it all the way back on when I was resetting everything, trying to solve my living room problem.
So now I’m stuck waiting for enough warm water to build up for me to have a proper shower.
In other news, we’re reaching what looks to be the end of a record-setting heat wave in Seattle. We’re talking temperatures in the triple digits (Fahrenheit, of course). Thankfully the humidity hasn’t been too brutal, but the heat on its own has just been absurd. My two fans have been working overtime, and I’m thinking ironically back to the portable air conditioner I saw for sale at Costco back in March… it looked like a good deal, but I didn’t bother because the last two summers have been so cold and damp. Well, live and learn.
I’m deliberately avoiding any major commitments to shows right now, but I went to a rehearsal last night for a show called Army Men that’ll be running this month at Unexpected Productions. It’s a silly, fun take on World War II movies, where the audience gets to select old plastic army figurines to represent each of the performers, and arrange the scene however they please. I think it’s going to be a hoot.
Dan.
Tags: condo, improv, seattle weather