revolutionary occurence

A few months ago, I posted concerning my shower situation in the apartment and how briefly the water stays warm. I have gotten pretty good at fast showers, and I generally have to resort to that thing that Dad always insisted that Seth and I do when we lived at home: I turn off the water while I lather up. On cold mornings in Dublin, sometimes I didn't want the warm water off, but I wouldn't have any warm water at the end of the shower if I didn't play it that way.

To save on electricity, I have a switch that turns the hot water heater on and off. I have to get up an hour or so before I want to take a shower in order to let the thing warm up (I've experimented with this; longer than an hour does me no good). This is no problem as I am a breakfast-eater and generally a slow starter. On the same panel that controls the power to the hot water heater, I have a switch to choose between hot water for the sink and hot water for the shower. It's labeled like that and everything. Today, I accidentally left the hot water on for the sink for a while before I took a shower. When I got into the shower, I noticed that I didn't have to bump up the heat throughout the shower--it's generally all the way on the hot side by the time I finish every morning. I decided to hang out in there for a while and see how long it would last. Turns out quite a while. Longer than normal shower length for an adult male human. There are still further tests to run, but at the moment, it looks like someone installed the switch backwards and I have actually been using the "sink" setting all this time for my showers. This changes everything and bodes well for any of you thinking of coming to visit.

If I make it like this, good things happen.













My shower control used to look like this (the heat turned all the way up) after 5 minutes in the shower. Shortly thereafter, the water would get cold.