Memoirs Of J

Tonight’s episode of 30 Rock  was called ‘when it rains it pours,’ and hey, what a coincidence because today we found out that the colloquialism applies to us having to spend lots of money.

First, we had (have) the window replacement project.  About $7,500…ouch.  But it was necessary, so what can you do.  Related to that is the skylights.  We have a skylight in each bathroom, and both are old, leaking, and all around in poor condition.  That is running us about another $2,200.  Again, necessary.

Then today, C calls from downstairs, “come down here – we have a problem!”  So I went down to the basement and followed him around the corner, ending up at a huge puddle surrounding the hot water heater.  Uh oh…

Upon inspection, we saw it was leaking from the bottom of the tank and had rust around the whole bottom – obviously in need of replacement.  Not surprising since it is the original water heater, so 20+ years old.  So we took a trip up to Menard’s and bought a new water heater.  It wasn’t extremely expensive – a few hundred dollars instead of a few thousand – but we still need to get a plumber to come out and install it for us.  And everyone knows that plumbers ass rape you.  Yeah, don’t leave hate comments.  I know plumbers are skilled, know the code, and all that, but still – it’s expensive as hell to hire one @ like $200/hour.

good ol' fashioned ass pillage!