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Our house is an all electric house and has no gas line installed (Yes even heating/water is all electric). The desis that we are, not having a gas stove has been a bit disappointing although we’ve been considering using induction and letting everything else stay electric. Anyway, more and more cities are banning gas lines and I think an all electric house might actually be plus rather than negative in a decade or two – but obv, we do we and indian food is best cooked on gas IMO.

Anyway, right after we moved in I started getting quotes from different contractors that **Washington gas** recommends to get this started. WashGas wont bring the gas to your house unless a contractor gives you a quote to install gas *inside* the house and the equipment you will convert to gas. The contractors that WashGas recommends are all part of cartel IMO — I called 5 of them, and each of them gave me a quote for nearly 15-20k$, and out of which they claimed, WashGas itself took a cut of around 5k to install the damn line from street to house.

Until I decided to not use WashGas contractors and instead use a reputable licensed contractor thats not in their network. Turns out this contractor gives me a quote for < 3k to bring gas into the house and connect equipment. Even better, contractor guided me on how to submit the request myself to WashGas instead of them - which I did - and today WashGas came back to me and said they will bring gas from street to my house for.... **free**. Moral of story - shop around and dont fucking trust contractors on everything they mouth.

In a writing workshop and the presenter left us with these two quotes that are just pure gold:

> I’m sorry I wrote such a long letter. I did not have the time to write a short one – Blaise Pascal”

> “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away – Antoine de Saint-Exupery”

Was a fantastic workshop!

[The Watcher](https://boxd.it/Daja) on Netflix is terrific! As a new homeowner this hit all the right nerves!

Sorry there is no such thing as a “black” golden retriever. It’s a black retriever is all!

What was peak Rahman for you? I am sure everyone has their own choice. For me it was Dil Se.

At what point do you become a bad cop about previous owner packages? Our previous owners like us didn’t move very far away – annoyingly almost every other week we get a package addressed to them. So far we have been nice enough to drop them by their friends in the community or asked them to pick up if it was a large package (we have had big rugs delivered!). But at what point do we just stop and hadpo their stuff? It’s getting annoying being the nice guy – and worst of all the previous owners won’t share their number with us so we have to go via their friends. I am at fuck you state now.

The season finale of Rings of Power was the best of the 8 episodes. I hope the rest of the series really picks up.

Interest rates are close to 7% now but I am not really seeing any opening price drops in our area for SFH. I would have thought houses opening in million plus range would open much lower but that hasn’t happened.

I…. have no idea what was so controversial about that AU Bank ad that was forced to pull down. Its incredible how Aamir Khan went from being the most loved actor to the most vilified actor within a span of few years. Maybe he should stick through his words and move elsewhere. Tab kya karenge log?

Netflix with ads is a reminder that sooner or later every product becomes everything it said it never would.