For the second time in my recollection, it appears that my water heater acted up the other day. I had the day off on Friday, so was milling about the homestead. At one point, I stepped down from the bathroom and the carpet said *squish*. This happens to be direction in front of the refrigerator, which is directly over the water heater. I opened the cabinet housing said water heater to find its cardboard box totally soaked. This happened once before and I dried the area up, but applied to real fix. Same thing in this case: the carpet is now dry and I haven't noticed any further issues. Still, I wonder about what I would find if I were to cut open that cardboard box and peel away the insulation surrounding the water heater. How much trouble am I asking for by not replacing it now?
As for the future, I'm trying to figure out what I'll do for housing when I find myself a job in the St. Paul area. Nothing's definite in the employment field yet, but I'm looking pretty actively. I've also begun perusing for houses, apartments, and mobile home parks that allow RVs. It'd be nice to be ride of my house here in Manhattan before taking on another domicile, and considering the winters up there it also seems like it may behoove me to sell the RV and find something a bit better insulated. I really don't have much use for a 5th-wheel and truck if I'm not going to be living in it fulltime. Don't know how much I'd get back out of them, though, and would want the sale to at least pay off the remainder of the loan. Much more will become clear once I get a bonafide job offer, though, so I'm going to try not to fret about it too much until then. I could foresee the need for a storage space here for the RV, perhaps stuff from the house (if I can sell it), and other odds and ins for a bit. I'd be really interested in paring down my earthly possessions to what I could fit into my car and a U-Haul trailer it can pull.
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