Water heater

This morning we had no hot water. Last night I could hear the water heater cycling (it's always been noisy) and wondered why it was doing that when no one was running any water. I guess I must have been listening to its death rattle. It's old and I have already had to repair it once. Not going to do it again; the price of repairs versus replacement just doesn't make sense. (Plus, last time it was electrical, a fried control unit. This time I think it's just the tank going bad, which you can't fix anyway and they all do it eventually.) Since I am covering for a vacationing colleague on the west coast today, I was free in the morning, to go to Lowes and order a new hot water heater. There was only one choice so I ordered it. They tried to get me on the install schedule for today, but they just called and it's gonna be tomorrow morning. Stay tuned.

Wrong tile

A box of tile just arrived on the UPS truck. The invoice has the correct part number but this is not the tile we chose. There's a current trend for interspersing brushed steel squares into mosaics of otherwise potentially harmless tiles, and that's what is in this box. Yuck. I guess some picker got the wrong thing, or they have the wrong thing on that shelf in the warehouse.

Fortunately Lowes is not difficult about returns, even for special order items, so there will be no wrangling about it. Back it goes. I hope they can find the tile we chose and send it to us. It's an accent tile so we only need five squares.