We're Gonna Talk

[thisnewday]

Spent yesterday finding a water heater to fit existing plumbing in the basement. Found one at The Home Depot at 8:55 last night and picked it up, with my son's help, early this afternoon. Deferred installing it till after my wife was ready for work in case there was a problem - as in, "this ain't my first rodeo."

Now, it's early evening, she's just left for work, and I'm in one of those troughs where energy has totally bottomed out. The new water heater is in the basement, uncrated, the necessary tools and parts are all down there, and hot water from the leaker continues to run across the floor.

To make matters worse, I caught most of HBO's adaptation of David Hare's My Zinc Bed while I was waiting, the Barnes & Noble down on the boulevard is still open and has a paperback of the stage play, and I have a B&N gift certificate in my pocket from Christmas.

Sh*t. I guess I'm gonna do the d*mned plumbing job. But we're gonna talk about this...