>>>>>>>So I emailed Mike Beane yesterday to see if he wanted to buy a watch. I used my alternate address. He had the nerve to not even answer me! How rude...
>>>>>>I recommend a G-Shock.. Mine synchs with the Atomic Clock every night, so I'm pretty much always accurate as to what time it may be. You can get them at Sams or Walmart for under 100.00. I'll let Mike B know too!
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>>>>>You just did ;-) Actually I almost never wear a watch, since I am generally right by a clock of one kind or another (computer, in the car, in a room with a clock, etc.) About the only time I do is when I referee soccer and need to use the timer. That one was indeed bought at Wal-Mart and set me back about 20 bucks.
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>>>>My mother once complained that there were no clocks in my house. I pointed out there was one on the VCR in the lounge, a digital display on the boiler in the bathroom, a timer on the cooker in the kitchen, et al. What a pain to set all these (and the clocks) at equinoxes.
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>>>At least we are fortunate enough to be Windows users , which updates the computer clock automatically ;-)
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>>>The boiler in the bathroom? What's that?
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>>In the States you tend to have your central heating & hot water boilers in the basement, I guess. My house is on 4 floors - the bottom (basement) floor being entirely my kitchen. I had the CH boiler (what else would you call it?) installed in the bathroom where it would be a shorter pipe ride for the HW to the sink, shower and bath. Probably most people in GB have their boilers in the kitchen or bathroom.
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>OIC. Here I think they're mostly in the basement, at least in the parts of the country that have basements.

So not many in the New Orleans or Miami areas.

Mind you, our boilers are quite compact, wall-mounted affairs - say 3' high X 2' wide and 1.5' deep.

Not many houses in GB have basements. Sure, there are some Victorian houses with cellars, but for some reason our builders and architects (or town planning officers) have never had the sense to include this most useful of rooms/areas.