> The water heater is like your house.  You can spend your life doing
> maintenance on your own house, and in the meantime not make any money.

Old Chinese proverb: House done? Die now.

> I suspect that if restoration contractors were cobblers, their children
> would be shoeless.

Every year I walk down to the park bare foot just to remember what it 
was like as a kid going bare foot all summer.

John

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