Hot tub city
Feb. 17th, 2004 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThe Home Show turned out to be The Hot Tub Show and let me tell you, gaudy has been redefined. I'll bet you a good 30% or more of the exhibitors at the home show were hot tub dealers. I saw my first pearlized silver hot tub complete with embedded strobe lights and a sound system. I don't need to see more. Really.
The show would have been a loser except for the good company. We had fun just walking around gawking at all the stuff - which we did for a nice, long time. Why is walking around slowly looking at stuff so tiring?! I'm beat.
I got a letter today from the Washington State Department of Licensing saying that my drivers license is up for renewal at my next birthday but if I wanted to extend for a year by mail all I have to do is fill out this form, write a check for $5 and pop it into the postage paid envelope. Heck, yeah. Wild.
I remember that the state of Oklahoma renewed my Grandfather's drivers license by mail for years - the same years the state of Oklahoma also declared him legally blind. I always felt so important when I got to go in the car with Grandpa. My job was to tell him if the traffic light was red or green since he couldn't see it. It always amazes me how I managed to live this long.
Oh, look what is out my window right this minute!
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Date: 2004-02-21 07:12 pm (UTC)I am fond of a Brit comedy called Keeping Up Appearances. I simply HAD to have all my doorknobs in my home replaced with gold finished handles, just like the type I see on the show and like the ones I saw in England.
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Date: 2004-02-23 01:03 am (UTC)So do you mean these old fashioned things... which they still sell:
They are both an old and a new idea, the old ones were less convenient than the centralized systems that replaced them, but the new systems are much more efficient than the alternatives. It shows how the UK has gone from easy to retrofit, through convenient to centrally install and then to efficient.
The DOE (but not the nukes part) has some words on the efficiency of modern tankless systems:
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumerinfo/refbriefs/bc1.html
And there's a commercial web site about the modern versions in America:
http://www.gotankless.com/
US heating fixtures tend to be a lot bigger than the European equivalent, I held an 80,000 BTU combination boiler up while our plumber installed it. A US standard 100,000 BTU device weighs over 200 pounds. IN the past they were also a lot less efficient, but I don't know if that is still true.
http://www.acdirect.com/l893_100000_899.html
So this is a typical European 100,000 BTU "combi" boiler, it weighs about 40Kg which is about 88 pounds I think?
Ours was almost silent, the exhaust was fan driven out through the kitchen wall and was hardly warm enough to thaw out your fingers on a cold day.
So was that what you wanted to know?
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Date: 2004-02-24 04:21 am (UTC)Thank you for taking the time to show me this. verrrrry interesting!
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Date: 2004-02-24 08:46 am (UTC)Until my mom had cataract surgery,
Date: 2004-02-17 05:17 pm (UTC)But she's better now. And only drives during the day. And mostly just Sea-Tac and Burien.
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Date: 2004-02-17 06:03 pm (UTC)And omg at telling your grandfather if the light was green or red! Eeeeeek.
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Date: 2004-02-17 06:09 pm (UTC):-)
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