We're almost there. One of these days, soon--perhaps even within a week--, our home will have an active phone line (our impending "launch date" only required that I virtually threaten AT&T with cancellation and no future business if they didn't figure out the problem) and high-speed wireless Internet access (oh, that's a dandy, too). Then, sometime after that, we hope to have hot water. We have found that leaving the setting on cold actually results in warmer water than turning it to hot; Dan cleverly determined that the cold water pipes run along the roof, while the "hot" supply is...
