Yesterday morning, Justine woke me to the exciting news that the pilot light had again gone out on our hot water service. It’s done it around half a dozen times since we’ve been here, and every time I’ve been able to get it lit again.

This time I couldn’t.

Going back inside, I shut the side door; I should say “slammed”, since the door gets stuck and needs a good solid closing. Well, a good solid closing it got, and out exploded a pane of glass (no one was hurt, thanks for your concern).

Later in the afternoon, with garbage bags over the hole in our door and us unshowered, I went outside to see that my car had been “egged” the night before. This is quite strange since our area is generally a pretty nice, quiet area. To those jerks that did it, screw you.

I went to the local car wash and spent three bucks cleaning the car — it hadn’t been cleaned for a long, long, long time so probably needed it anyway.

This morning, the glazier came on-time, and replaced the glass. With no hot water I had to have a cold shower… fun. The gas people finally called me at 10:30 to say they couldn’t come until tomorrow, which I didn’t consider good enough. Another was contacted and could come out today.

Since yesterday, I’d been trying to light the hot water service every now and then to no avail. Finally, I got it to work! Still needs to be checked out though, in case it’s stuffed.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have a hot, hot shower.