THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR DAN MILLER

So our hot water heater died on Friday. Or actually what I have since learned is called the thermal couple died.

We called our home warranty folks on Friday and a guy came out on Friday night. He (thought that) he had the part to do it so he got to work and it turns out that our thermal couple is left-threaded. According to the plumber, nearly all of them are right-threaded and pretty standard.

He tried to go find one but could not and then again yesterday tried to find one at a particular store but no dice. Yesterday we went to step aerobics at the Y but for some reason the teacher didn’t show up so Carolyn and I just went and worked out in the exercise room. I did some elliptical and then about 30-40 minutes of weight training so I am awful sore this morning.

Naturally, showering at the Y was called for. At this point we still thought he was going to hook us up yesterday but no, so now there is no hot water today either. We entertained notions of going to the Y again this morning just to shower (like good bums do), but it doesn’t open till 11 and there’s no childcare. So Carolyn washed her hair with a pot of water she heated up on the stove and I took a polar bear shower (hence the title of this post).

Yesterday I also went to FleetFeet to get a new pair of running shoes. They brought out a bunch of shoes and tried them on but they were all in the $90-95 range. I tried to deal with them but no dice. I was getting ready to leave when they said they might have a discontinued pair in the back. They did and I ended up getting them for $65.

Last night we had our annual fantasy baseball draft. This league originally started out in 1989 when we were all (mostly) in 7th grade. This would be our 20th year but nobody ran the league while I was on my mission.

The draft went pretty well. We used to run an online fantasy sports site called InsideCorner.com so we have our own custom league with a custom draft program. It works pretty well, though we occasionally have to restart the server because people don’t show up on time or have trouble getting access to it for whatever reason. Last night we had problems getting Dan No R in there.

But wait, you might say – Dan No r – that seems like a strange name? Why yes, gentle reader. It turns out that in addition to myself (Dan Miller), we have a league owner whose name is Dan Mille. Truthfully, I am only about 95% sure that another owner in our league didn’t make him up. I mean it definitely seems like the kind of name that you wouldn’t make up if you were trying to illegally run two teams, but I think that if there was one person I would think would think he could pull it off, it would be this particular owner.

Anyway, the draft didn’t go too long and the following is my team:

I’m fairly happy with it and we shall see how we do this year