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I figure that one of these days shaver and I will start a game company, and they’ll end up writing a comic like this about me soon thereafter.

We haven’t talked seriously about showers in about 5 years, so we are truly past-due.

Say what you will about my house — and there are several things that I would change, budgetary considerations aside — the shower is not at all one of them. It lacks the sheer pressure associated with my former shower, making it somewhat more pedestrian in that regard. Still, most people would view this as an improvement, if they didn’t go to school in Ohio next to an overachieving municipal water pumping facility. In any case, its pressure is more than adequate.

Its shower head is as close to perfectly positioned as it may be possible to achieve through purely mortal means. Not as in most Asian countries, where the shower head juts from the wall just below my shoulder blades, which is great for practicing the limbo while washing one’s hair, but not otherwise ideal. That’s my tip for the Asian tourism and business development organizations: raise the shower heads for taller Westerners.

The water temperature selector is one of the radial models, so it’s easy to set perfectly and consistently, every time. Much more importantly, once you’ve found the desired temperature, it doesn’t change. There’s no surer way to ruin a shower than for the temperature to oscillate between freezing and scalding every 35 seconds.

I’m glad we had this little discussion.