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vaznettiI made it to Portland, luggage and all, and am writing this on my office computer. Soon, though, I'm going to go home, because although it's only 4 PM the jet lag is killing me--I woke up at 3 am and could not get back to sleep.
So there will be a more coherent entry later. Unfortunately there is no phone access at home at the moment, so my internet use will be patchy. But thank you all for your good wishes, and now that I've arrived some place I intend to stay for longer than three weeks I hope to stop whining. Or anyway, stop whining about travel.
But! I must share one piece of information with all of you--the house I'm renting, although in all other respects very nice, does not have a shower. Only a bathtub. I have never quite gotten the knack of washing my hair in the bathtub, so I'm looking forward to a year of bad hair days. Seriously. This is verging on the catastrophic.
OK, it isn't really verging on the catastrophic. I'm a little doubtful about finding a shower-attachment that will fit the faucet, but if all else fails I can wash my hair Indian-style with a bucket and jug. And learn to take long, soothing baths. The fact that I managed to wash my hair this morning and it doesn't look too heinous is also reassuring.
Yes, my mind really is this trivial. Also, I must get cable soon. There is essentially no TV reception.
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aceofkittens and fillyjonk, you have corrupted me. I now have a cell phone. I intend to leave it turned off for most of the time though--so there!
So there will be a more coherent entry later. Unfortunately there is no phone access at home at the moment, so my internet use will be patchy. But thank you all for your good wishes, and now that I've arrived some place I intend to stay for longer than three weeks I hope to stop whining. Or anyway, stop whining about travel.
But! I must share one piece of information with all of you--the house I'm renting, although in all other respects very nice, does not have a shower. Only a bathtub. I have never quite gotten the knack of washing my hair in the bathtub, so I'm looking forward to a year of bad hair days. Seriously. This is verging on the catastrophic.
OK, it isn't really verging on the catastrophic. I'm a little doubtful about finding a shower-attachment that will fit the faucet, but if all else fails I can wash my hair Indian-style with a bucket and jug. And learn to take long, soothing baths. The fact that I managed to wash my hair this morning and it doesn't look too heinous is also reassuring.
Yes, my mind really is this trivial. Also, I must get cable soon. There is essentially no TV reception.
And finally,
aceofkittens and fillyjonk, you have corrupted me. I now have a cell phone. I intend to leave it turned off for most of the time though--so there!
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Date: 2003-08-12 04:26 pm (UTC)::snicker::
I bet you've programmed it with the "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" ring tone, haven't you?
Glad you made it in one piece! Best of luck finding that shower attachment. Surely, at this late date, we have the technology?
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Date: 2003-08-12 04:37 pm (UTC)What I really want is the ring-tone they use in 24 for the CTU phones. I feel that it would make me pay attention to my phone.
However, first I must get the darned thing charged and running.
And thanks for the welcome. It's nice to be here.
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Date: 2003-08-12 04:37 pm (UTC)Good luck with the settling in process :)
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Date: 2003-08-12 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 04:42 pm (UTC)Buy yourself one of those shower attachments that goes on the faucet like old ladies use. This will solve the hair problem and you can sit in the tub and shower it down on yourself no problem.
Or, if you are feeling very crafty, you could put up a shower curtain using tension rods or curtain rods, or just plain old copper piping and suspend it from the ceiling and rig yourself something to hold your shower thing in and voila!
We always said we'd do this in the house I rented, but there were other problems (including tile we didn't want to damage) that prevented it. But the shower on the big long hose goes a long way toward letting you wash your hair correctly and not feel gritty when you get out of the tub.
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Date: 2003-08-13 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 01:20 pm (UTC)Look for them in the "helping old people" section of the store with the toilet booster seats and ring pillows, etc.
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Date: 2003-08-12 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 05:06 pm (UTC)During my ten showerless years before the new!Bathroom I found that the best bet for washing hair was the kitchen sink and my measuring jug. It tends to be the right height for bending over and dunking your entire head of hair in, which the basin in the bathroom and/or the bath seldom are. Full hair dunking is a good thing, and minimises the number of times you have to fill that jug and pour it over your head to rinse the soap out. Also, if the kitchen sink has a mixer tap, they're usually high enough that you can get some of the shower rinse out effect from them too.
But the best of luck in jury-rigging yourself a shower, or at least a shower attachment. :-)
And there's nothing wrong with having a cell phone, provided you let it know where its place is in the general scheme of things, i.e. extremely lowly. Turning it off for long periods of time should do the trick just fine.
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Date: 2003-08-13 09:52 am (UTC)Cell phone goodness!
Date: 2003-08-12 06:34 pm (UTC)Welcome home! :)
Re: Cell phone goodness!
Date: 2003-08-13 11:22 am (UTC)Since we always have trouble with the connection to your phone, I decided not to go with Sprint. I didn't want to be saying "can you hear me now?" every other sentence.
I should phone you, hunh?
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Date: 2003-08-23 08:40 am (UTC)How strange - you, no shower, and I don't have a bath in the new place, which is one of its drawbacks. S. doesn't understand. Jug hair-washing has always been OK by me, but I guess I've got less to deal with, particularly in recent years.
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Date: 2003-08-12 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 07:04 pm (UTC)You know, I looked up into the sky this afternoon and saw a plane pass over my head. Let's both pretend you were on it.
Let's also pretend I waved at you. *g*
Eeep on the lack o' shower. Hopefully you can figure out something that works ASAP.
HEY! I just realized something - I'm finally ahead of you in time zones! Hmmm...now I must figure out how to work this to
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Date: 2003-08-12 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 10:34 pm (UTC)So, this weekend would be a good time for me to visit you, right? :)
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Date: 2003-08-12 11:47 pm (UTC)The tub thing could get to be addicting. Enjoy it all you can! :-)
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Date: 2003-08-12 11:56 pm (UTC)Until you get that shower attachment, let me pipe in with Muridae: Kitchen sink+measuring jug=the least strain on your shoulders and back. IMHO.
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Date: 2003-08-13 09:53 am (UTC)Re: apropos of nothing
Date: 2003-08-13 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 06:20 am (UTC)But an American bathroom with no shower? You have got to be kidding me. 100-degree weather over here, no shower over there ... I am starting to feel extremely disoriented.
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Date: 2003-08-13 11:23 am (UTC)Now that you mention this... it could be a sign of the apocalypse, couldn't it?