Gas, Politic, and Rock & Roll

Either I have some pretty decent persuasive skills or I just wore the gas guy down. When he came to look at the gas lines, his first reaction was, "I can't hook this back up, the house line is busted." True, the leg of pipe leading from what had been the gas meter to the long pipe into my house looked and felt loose, but I was convinced it just looked that way and was not leaking.

So, he said he's run a pressure test on it. Sure enough, it held. So, he said he'd try to connect a new meter, but because of the looseness of the pipe, he wasn't sure it would hold. "You better pray with me now, he said." I felt bad about it, but I decided to lie to him and tell him I would, indeed, pray that the line would hold. He kept on working and got the meter attached, turned on the gas and, presto, the meter worked! He warned me I'd need to get that leg of pipe fixed before long, though. So, we have hot water and can dry clothes and, if we're surprised by a freak snowstorm, we can run the heat.

Everyone tells me that it will take a week to get the gas running again after I call a plumber o repair that one short piece of line, courtesy of the City of Dallas needing revenue. Lots of permits, inspections, etc., coupled with lots of plumber time and money.

Kathyr says she's a Lefty-tarian. On the same scale, I'm a serious left-wing libertarian, even more so than she is, so I'm probaby on the Bush Administration's arrest list.

On the same blog, Kathyr reported that she is most like Keith Moon, according to a miserable excuse for a highly scientific assessment instrument. Here's what the same instrument had to say about me:

You scored as Jim Morrison Jim Morrison 78% Jimi Hendrix 53% John Lennon 53% Keith Moon 50% Syd Vicious 48%