Good News, Everyone!

So one of our rusty old (40-50 years) heating oil
tanks finally sprung a leak. Immediately after we
filled it. But we didn't notice it until about 8 
hours later! So about 550 gallons of oil (two 
connected 275gal tanks) just emptied out into the
ground. Right into the soil. Our basement doesn't 
have a floor. That's semi-good, because we don't
have to jackhammer concrete to remove all the oil.
But it's still a lot of digging. We're not doing it
ourselves of course.

No hot water! No showers! Slightly more challenging
dish-washing! Petroleum vapors in my lungs!

Yay!

If it were my house I'd do away with the oil. It's
so stupid. Totally obsolete. I'd have everything
electric. Just wires. Electric baseboard, electric
hot water heater, probably even one of those tankless
water heaters. Modern. It's not 1940 anymore (when
this house was built).

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In other news, I whipped out the old smart watch
because I got tired of checking the time on my phone
all the time. It's an LG Urbane -- pretty slick. 
Yellow gold color. Still works really well. But it's 
a luxury. I'm gonna get a plain old watch 
(a "dumb watch", I guess) because the charge on this 
thing lasts about two days if I just use it for time 
and about a day if I do other stuff with it.