eek unhinged it is so cold i don't want to take my clothes off to bathe. bbbrrrrr 090115 ... icicle dodging bird during the one winter i spent in a very cold place, although we had ample hot water, there were constraints on our time and the building was not very well heated besides the water tank I learned that it was very possible, if not very satisfying, to take a 3-4 min shower and be dressed again in another 2 mins thus minimizing the degree to which i froze my ass off 090115 ... unhinged ironically the big radiator in my apartment is in the bathroom so with a little more preparation i could just put everything in the bathroom that i needed to get dressed. with the bathroom door snuggly closed it's nowhere near as bad to bathe as it was in the last house i lived in. that much forethought irks me though. 090115 ... nom eek! 090730 what's it to you? who go blather from