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With my 3-day weekend, I've been cleaning out more of the stuff my niece left behind when she moved out. One item is an Easy Bake Oven. At first, I intended to take it to Goodwill, even though it seemed to be missing the pan.

When I plugged it in and turned it on to make sure it worked, the white light in front came on but it didn't seem to be doing anything else. Then I started smelling a nasty smell, like cigar smoke. Not wanting to impose such a nasty smell on anyone who might innocently buy it at Goodwill, I decided to throw it away.

First I thought of wrapping it in an old hoodie which I was getting rid of too. To hide it, I guess, and buffer the outside of it. I would put it like that in another bag, in my trash bin. But I changed my mind, not wanting it to damage the garbage truck (if that is even possible).

Per my county's Solid Waste & Recycling Guidelines, you can schedule a bulk item pickup for large appliances. But not for small appliances. Apparently you have to take the small ones to the landfill yourself. That doesn't seem fair! They'll take something big but not something smaller?

I considered disassembling the unit, and found a video showing how to do it. The oven has a thick plastic shell. The seam is near one side, not in the middle. So taking it apart wouldn't make it much smaller. But in pieces, it would no longer be an appliance; it would be two bulky pieces of plastic. That should probably be ok to put in my bin. I could keep the metal interior parts for metal recycling.

But taking it apart requires an unusually long #10 star bit driver, which I don't have. I suppose I could order one, but gee whiz.

To top things off, my neighbor put out a bunch of junk this weekend. A passer-by with a truck already took away the exercise bike. There's still a coffee table and side table (in fairly bad condition though they could be fixed up), and a shopping cart (that reminded me how after I moved here, it was common to find abandoned shopping carts on the side of the road. I'm glad that stopped happening) and some other things. Unless my neighbor scheduled a special pickup for that stuff, or someone else driving by decides they want that stuff, I don't think it will be picked up. I was tempted to put out the Easy Bake oven by his things. But I already cut the electric cord off it, and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't get taken.

I considered putting the oven on top of my trash bin by the street. That way the people on the garbage truck could decide whether it was ok for them to take or not. But now it's 3am and I don't want to go out there in the dark again.

I've never been to the landfill, so I don't know how dropping something off there works. I used to think I could do that someday if I ever really needed to. But then one time, Qiao and I drove by one of the landfills on the way out of town. The smell was horrible. I could barely stand just driving down that road. So now I never want to drive that way again, and I certainly don't want to drive in to the landfill site. I don't think I could stand it. But actually, I'm not even sure that's the location for dropping off appliances and such. Maybe that place is elsewhere and doesn't smell as bad.

Two years ago (on Valentine's Day, even!) I had hired some people to haul away a bunch of stuff to the dump. I might need to do that again someday, if I have enough to make it worthwhile.
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My oven's touchpad isn't working right. The Temperature Up button makes the temperature go down. The Down button brings up Auto Clean. So I am stuck at a maximum temperature of 350, unless I want to Broil something.

It had a similar problem in 2015. Back then on the original Whirlpool unit, the Temperature Down button failed first. I was able to purchase and install a 3rd-party replacement touchpad to fix it, for $200. Now, it looks like a replacement may no longer be available. I've emailed the company I bought it from last time to find out for sure.

Looking up the problem, there are many videos indicating that oven touchpad buttons failing is a common problem with all brands. In most examples, the buttons don't work at all rather than doing the wrong thing. The videos show how to clean the ribbon cable contacts to fix the problem. One guy said that fixes the problem 70% of the time. I didn't try that back in 2015, but did yesterday. Today I tried it again, just to make sure I got those contacts very clean. It didn't fix my problem.

Maybe one of the resistors in the touchpad is shorted. I was looking at the photo I'd made of its wiring prior to installing it. Groups of buttons are wired together along the same metal connector thingy, with what looks like a flat resistor between each one. The control unit probably determines which button was pressed based on the voltage between the various connectors. If the resistor right after the Auto Clean button is shorted, that could result in my problem. Unfortunately the Temp Up button is the last in the path, so there's no other button I can press to make the temperature go up. It's strange that basically the same buttons failed both times, on different brands of touchpads.

Oh well. Being able to bake only at 350 degrees is better than not baking at all. I want to still bake something tonight.

If these touchpads failing is such a common problem, they ought to make more ovens with manual knob controls like in the old days.

Earlier this year, my microwave oven's touchpad was also acting up. Some of the buttons didn't respond, or only when pressed in a specific way. I tried one suggested fix (blow dryer) which didn't help. Later on, the problem went away on its own. Probably seasonal/humidity related.

2:00

Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 02:01 am
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Setting the microwave to run for 2 minutes at exactly 2am is a tad confusing. Oh I entered the numbers already? Oh I guess not.
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Last year I found out unfrosted poptarts are vegan. (The frosted ones contain gelatin.) That made me nostalgic, so I bought a box each of unfrosted cinnamon and strawberry poptarts. They still taste like I remember from childhood. Sugary-sweet morning memories; memories that go along with Saturday morning cartoons on the TV. Flintstones, He-man, Thundercats Ho!

Did you know even a single unfrosted poptart contains 12 grams of sugar, which per the nutrition panel is 24% of the recommended daily intake? (Contrary to what I'd expect, the frosted ones purportedly don't have much more sugar than the unfrosted ones.) That is one reason I haven't eaten up these 2 boxes of tarts yet; I only take them out once in a big while as a treat.

I heat mine in the toaster, but the microwave heating instructions on the box surprise me:
"Heat 3 seconds at a time until warm enough."

Does Kellogg's truly expect anyone to start and stop their microwave every *3* seconds to check on the warmth of their tarts? I am guessing those instructions are to avoid any lawsuits due to accidental over-heating of the tarts, since some microwaves heat a lot faster than others. But I wonder if three seconds may not even be long enough for a microwave to start emitting its rays. My microwave generally needs to run for a minimum of 20 seconds to result in any noticeable heating of the food.
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Two years ago, I went on a roadtrip with Qiao.

We brought a cooler with ice packs to keep food and drinks cold. I refroze the ice packs in motel room freezers overnight.




I remember the above refrigerator rather well, as the freezer compartment was so frosted up with ice that at first the flap wouldn't even open far enough to allow access to the compartment. Once I got the flap open, there was so much ice in the compartment that the freezer packs didn't fit inside.

The above photos were with the fridge unplugged and its door open to help melt the ice. But it would have taken all night to defrost it that way.
I ended up manually defrosting the freezer with warm water and a washcloth.

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Yesterday, [personal profile] andrewducker posted a photo of his son exploring a similarly small refrigerator (probably even smaller). Replying to a comment of mine, he posted a link to this black refrigerator. Take a look at the 2nd photo on that page which shows the fridge interior.
Then look at my photos above.

The motel room refrigerator model was an Igloo FR320I. I know that because I also took a photo of the placard listing the model #, in order to look up its defrosting instructions. The fridge at the link is an Adexa. But they look exactly the same inside.

tp / bidet

Monday, June 15th, 2020 01:27 am
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Today I learned that the "Total Area" listed on packages of toilet paper is the amount for all the rolls together, not the amount per roll. The numbers made a lot more sense once I realized that. I'd been trying to figure out how the 240-sheet rolls could possibly have a bigger area than the same-size 300-sheet rolls... but they didn't; the package just had more rolls in it.

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I'm thinking of getting one of those non-electric toilet bidet attachments. I plan to try it out on a toilet that only I use, which ought to reduce the squick factor a lot for me, but still I don't know.

If any of you has advice on what to look for or what to avoid, please share.

They look so weird to me. Little tubes ejecting and angling upwards. So phallic.

At first I was thinking of trying out a "bidet bottle" instead, and maybe I still will. But even the ones with long spouts must be awkward to use.

don't want lint

Sunday, December 8th, 2019 11:12 pm
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Reminder to self (if I write it down enough times, maybe I'll remember):

NEVER wash light colored towels (including the kitchen towels) with my normal dark clothes. IT LEAVES LINT! I don't want to have to brush lint off each shirt and each shirt sleeve, inside and outside!

It's probably best not to even wash darker towels together with the clothes. Try washing all the towels together with the whites.. but hopefully that won't result in dark lint on the whites.

The brown sweater has light-colored fleece inside. Maybe it is a culprit too. Maybe only wash it together with towels too.
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Note to self: When using Qiao's gas stove, note that turning the dial past the high setting makes the flames get smaller again. Maybe that's why it was taking so long for the water to boil this time.

Every time I use that stove, I come up with another hypothesis as why it takes so long to boil the water or to cook the food: 1) The burner grate must not have been on straight, causing the pot to be further from the flames. 2) The top left burner seems to produce bigger flames than the bottom right one; I should use the former instead of the latter. 3) ...

When I turn on the stove hood's fan, air blows out of a vent on the top of the hood back into the kitchen. That confused me the first time I noticed it. But from what I've read, some hoods can be installed to either vent air out through a vent pipe, or (for those without a vent pipe) through a filter back into the kitchen. The cabinet over Qiao's stove has a vent pipe going through it. So I wonder if whoever installed the hood did it wrong. I need to figure out how to check that someday.

I dislike the smell of the exhaust gasses from the stove. It's not a smoky smell nor an (unburned) natural gas smell, but still not something that seems healthy to breathe in. (It's sort of like the stuffy smell you get from burning candles, but worse.) Maybe if the hood were working right, there'd be less of that smell. In the meantime, when I use the stove or oven, I open some windows and turn on a standing fan to blow the exhaust gasses outside.
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Sometimes it takes me an hour of not being able to fall asleep, to realize it's because I'm feeling cold. In spite of the thick blankets, fleece sheets, and the electric blanket at my feet.

Now I got out of bed for a while and turned the heater up.

Yesterday morning, the heater wasn't working. Only the night before, I'd been reading and replying about someone else's thermostat problem. My problem wasn't due to the thermostat, though. The furnace was getting power and making the buzzy noise that meant it was starting up, but then would stop before the hot air started blowing.

I called the person who replaced the heater's control board 3 years ago when it last had a problem. His voicemail said he was unavailable til tomorrow, but forwarded me to someone else. Of all luck, they happened to be nearby getting supplies for another job, and were able to stop by in under an hour and easily fix it. Based on what I saw them do and what they told me, and what I looked up afterwards, there was some small debris that they cleared out from a tube, which had been causing the pressure switch not to close

The pressure switch is a safety mechanism that prevents the gas from being turned on and the flame from getting lit when the airflow isn't normal.

http://www.grayfurnaceman.com/gas-furnace-pressure-switch-problems.html

From looking at the documentation that came with the control board, its LEDs were actually flashing the error code for "Pressure Switch Open". I didn't realize it was an error code, because the flashing was steady, rather than a certain number of flashes followed by a pause. If there's ever a problem again, I need to remember to check those LEDs as one of the first troubleshooting steps.
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Such as the small freezer compartments in the mini refrigerators often found in motels...
(It was so full of ice that the little freezer flap wouldn't even open more than part-way, because of ice on the hinge area.)

First I tried chipping away at some of the ice with a screwdriver. That didn't work well.

I thought of using the motel room's hair-dryer, but it was mounted to the wall and the cord didn't reach far enough.

I looked up the refrigerator model's manual online. It said NOT to try to chip away the ice as that could cause damage. It said NOT to use a hair-dryer as that could deform the plastic parts. It said to turn the refrigerator off and wait for it to melt. With a warm bowl of water inside to speed things along. But that would have still taken too long.

I tried tossing teaspoonfuls of warm water onto the ice at the top of the hinge, but that didn't work well.

So then I ran hot water on a washcloth and used the warm washcloth to melt the ice, with a towel at the bottom of the fridge to catch dripping water. I wrung out the washcloth over the sink and repeated it many times. Once I got the flap to open all the way, I continued melting away much of the frost and the ice inside the freezer compartment. Using a small hand-towel would have worked well too, maybe even faster.

dryer dryer

Sunday, September 15th, 2019 12:18 am
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Well, shucks.

The last time I had a problem with my dryer, back in 2014, the drum was making a squeaky sound (per my notes) while turning, and adjusting the rear drum seal fixed it.

Over a year ago, the drum started making a bad noise again. When I turned the dryer off and checked inside, there was also a bad smell. So I haven't used it since then. I usually hang my clothes up to dry anyway.

Today I finally got time to check what was wrong with the dryer. I thought it might be that rear seal again, so I checked what a replacement seal would cost. The only one I found for sale online is $252! So then I knew if that needed replacing, it wouldn't be worth it. I might as well get a new dryer, or just use Q's when I really need one.

But I went ahead and removed the dryer's top and back panel to see what was causing the noise. It doesn't seem to be the seal this time. It's more of a rattling noise, and it's coming from the drive motor. I didn't find any replacement drive motors for sale, for this model dryer. So I guess that's it for this dryer, unless I want to take the motor out and check it closer up...

But anyway, the dryer drum makes a nice sound when I drum on it. I'm tempted to keep the drum and get rid of the rest of the dryer. But it'll take space. It doesn't have a flat top, so I couldn't even use it as a table or stand. So I really oughtn't think of keeping it. Hrmmm.
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Someone left a thank you on an informational entry I posted over 5 years ago about the lint filter on my old washing machine. Yay, that's why I post those kind of things sometimes. To help anyone else who may encounter the same problems I did.

Today I used my lithium battery-powered leaf blower (Greenworks model 24282). Sometimes it sucks my clothes against the bottom side where it pulls air in. When that happens, I shift it further away from myself. But today it sucked in the drawstring on my pants, tore off a piece, and started making a bad noise. So I turned it off.

This evening I extricated the piece of drawstring that had gotten stuck inside the unit. After removing the nozzle, I could see the piece by looking in through the front of the unit with a flashlight. But it was stuck so tight that pulling on it with long tweezers and a long-necked pair of pliers wasn't able to get it free. So I opened the blower up. It has 13 screws on one side which hold the 2 halves of the housing together. After removing the screws, I couldn't get the halves apart at first. Finally I noticed there was a plastic warning sticker* under the handle, right over where the halves joined together. That was also holding them together. Cutting a slit down the middle of the sticker allowed the halves to came apart easily.

Pulling on the drawstring as I'd been doing before had gotten it stuck worse. It needed to be pulled out inwards from the center of the fan, rather than outwards. With the unit open, it was easy to do.

*One of the tiny icons on the sticker even warns against wearing loose clothing. Though without looking at the manual as I'm doing now, I wouldn't have been able to figure out that's what the icon represented. Another icon warns about long hair... yikes, that would be worse to get stuck. The blower is so light and easy to use (and unlike other tools, doesn't have any sharp blades; it only blows air!) that I hadn't thought of it as potentially dangerous.

..

Now I feel inspired to try fixing my dryer (I did once before already, so have an idea what the problem is). But starting to dismantle a dryer at 3am is not a good idea.

blown out

Sunday, March 31st, 2019 04:51 pm
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Whenever I change the bag on the vacuum cleaner at Q's house, I wish I had another vacuum cleaner to clean out all the dust from inside it. Shaking it out only helps a little. Today I had the idea of taking it outside and using the leafblower on it. That worked.

dorndor

Saturday, November 17th, 2018 02:34 am
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Finally, some refrigerators with a door-in-door feature similar to my 1984 Whirlpool fridge's "Serva-Door".

https://www.lg.com/us/discover/instaview-door-in-door

lavender

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 11:20 pm
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Note to self: Do not wash the purple knit sweater with any light-colored clothes, as it bleeds, a lot.
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Dear GE,

I spend too much time agonizing over which setting to choose on the cycle selector knob on your washing machine. The choices do not make sense to me.

There is a Soil Level knob, and a Water Temperature knob, and both of those make sense. High Soil Level = longer wash cycle, and/or stronger agitation, right? The Water Temperature has perhaps too many choices (tap cold vs cold vs cool) but I can handle that. At least I can figure out what the difference is between them.

But the cycle selector knob has 13 options, and no matter which one I choose, it might be the wrong choice!

Why are there choices for "Whites", "Colors", "Dark Colors", and "Cold Wash"? The water temperature knob is supposed to control whether the water is hot or cold. Aren't whites supposed to be washed in warm or hot water, while colors are supposed to be washed in cold? What in god's name will happen if I set the water temperature to Hot, and select "Cold Wash" or "Dark Colors"??

Why are there different choices for "Heavy Duty" and "Jeans"? Aren't jeans heavy duty?
What if I had white jeans to wash?? Would I choose Whites, Heavy Duty, or Jeans?
What if I wanted to wash white jeans together with white sheets? Would I choose Whites, Towels/Sheets, or Jeans?

Why is there a "Towels/Sheets" selection? Towels are among the thickest heaviest things to wash, while sheets are among the lightest.

Why are there different selections for "Casuals" and "Active Wear"... oh wait, I remember now from reading the instructions, that "active wear" means stuff worn while one does sports and gets all sweaty, right? So if I have a sweaty clothes, maybe I should choose that rather than the other choices. But what if the sweaty clothes are dark-colored? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh..............!!!

What if I wash one small colored towel along with medium and dark colored clothes? Will it cause the clothes to come out with lint? Had I better not include the towel?


The instructions say that the "Whites" option should be used for "Whites and household linens". But don't linens belong under "Towels/Sheets"?? Or does "household linens" refer to linen table cloths instead of linen sheets?...

For "Towels/Sheets", the instructions say "It is recommended that towels and sheets be washed separately for best care and washing performance". At first I thought that meant that they should be washed separately from other clothes, using this option. But now it occurred to me that maybe it means that towels should be washed separately from sheets! Gahhhh. Why does it have to be so difficult. I never had a problem washing towels together with sheets in the past.

washer differences

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 12:07 am
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I had often read that front-loading washers are more gentle on clothes than top-loaders. But when choosing my new washer, I thought, how much rougher could a top loader be? My old washer was a front-loader, but before that, I had always used top loaders.

It was made clear to me, when I washed my first load of whites in my new top-loader. With my front-loader, I was in the habit of putting dark-colored synthetics in together with the whites. I don't have many white clothes, so including the synthetics helps me get a full (or at least half-full) load. Synthetics don't bleed, and they don't shrink, and I thought those were the main reasons you wouldn't want to mix colors with whites. But, aha, I learned another reason. My dark synthetics came out with a bunch of light-colored lint on them. That never happened with my front-loader. Hopefully if I don't wash the whites together with the darks, it won't happen again.

But it reminded me of the washer my mom used to have. The clothes always came out of that washer with a lot of lint, and I had to use a lint brush to get it off. I had always thought that was due to the washer being old, or perhaps due to using powdered detergent instead of liquid back then. But maybe top loaders are just prone to producing lint.

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The top seal on the new washer is completely dry after a load finishes washing. That is nice, not having to wipe the seal dry like I had to do with my front-loader.

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Something I hadn't considered when buying the top-loader was that I'd no longer be able to lay the clothes on top of the washer while pulling them out and sorting them, before hanging them up to dry. But I can still hang my socks over the top rim, and I still have the dryer top surface, so it's not a big deal.

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This new washer looks so big compared to the old one. That will be good for washing blankets.

this week

Monday, October 16th, 2017 12:37 am
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Let's see. Monday, the dogs dug out from Qiao's yard.
Tuesday night or morning, they dug out from my yard. Or maybe dug and climbed; I'm still not certain. Searched the neighborhood nearly 3 hours for them and then finally found them in 2 different backyards one street over. Which I only noticed because our neighbor's dog barked and looked in that direction. (When I was searching before, I tended to look everywhere *except* in other fenced areas, wrongly assuming that if a yard was fenced off with a closed gate, that the dogs wouldn't have been able to get in there).
Then we took them back to Qiao's place where we can keep the small dog (the main instigator) tied up with a cable more easily until the fence is better secured. I think I will have to put down mesh fencing along the ground after all.

Wednesday, I cut up and cooked 2 butternut squashes that my mom gave me from her yard. They grew on their own out from her compost bin; not just these 2, but several more, all summer long.

Thursday, Qiao's retina started detaching.. he had surgery on that eye just 2 months ago for the same problem, but this time it is even worse than before (even though at an appointment 2 weeks ago, the eye doctor said it was looking good). He has emergency surgery scheduled this week on Tuesday. I hope they can fix it. His other eye also had the same problem several years back, and that one has been ok since its surgery (which was done using silicone oil, versus the recent surgery which used a gas bubble). This time the doctor's notes say he might use a scleral buckle, and/or silicone, or another gas bubble. We're hoping it won't be a bubble again, because Qiao had a hard time keeping the required face down position last time.

Friday, I made a new patient appointment with a doctor, so that I'll finally have a "primary care doctor". The nearest doctor's offices to me weren't taking new patients. So it's at a place somewhat further away, but not too far. The earliest appointment date they had was early December. Initially, it will be to discuss these foot nerve issues and/or whatever comes back from the blood test results and/or maybe the cracking sounds my neck has been making for almost a year now.

Today I ordered a new washing machine. I found out that there aren't any specific standards that must be met to call a washer "high efficiency". I found out that different companies / countries use to measure tub capacity differently, so that what one might call 2.5 cubic feet, another might call 3 cubic feet. But around 2011 the U.S. government started enforcing standardized measurements. I found that a lot of washers now include a setting for "Casual" clothes. Ie., whites, colors, casual, delicates, jeans, bulky items. The other ones are familiar, but I have no idea how "casual" clothes are supposed to be different than the others, or how they are supposed to be specially washed.

At work, they are finally giving me a new laptop with an SSD hard drive. It will be Windows 10 though; I'll have to get used to that.

I've started updating my Firefox add-on "ToggleDocumentColors" for WebExtensions. But because of everything else, I haven't had time to do much yet. It has to be implemented totally differently than before, because WebExtensions don't let you read or update the browser about:config settings. That boggled my mind when I found out. So instead, the add-on will have to "inject" a CSS sheet into the page, and the user will have to enter their desired colors as add-on settings, instead of the add-on being able to use the color settings the user already entered in the browser settings.

On Friday morning, an alarm siren was going off in a nearby shopping center. It could be heard at my house even inside with the windows closed - in the rooms on that side. That includes the room with my computer, and we had a Skype meeting that morning, so I was hearing this faint high-low-high-low-high-low siren noise in the background for more than an hour. By the time I was ready to leave for work, I was so annoyed that I started yelling (inside the house), in a wailing way, imitating the sound. It was slightly amazing - I was really able to imitate it pretty well... sort of like the wailing done in some North African cultures when someone dies. Ululation, that is the word. But I was using my throat/vocal cords to ululate, as opposed to my tongue. My voice was hoarse for the rest of the day.

Late Friday evening when I got back from work, the siren was still going! I called the police to report it, and was thankful that I was going to Qiao's house for the weekend.

Sunday evening when I got back from Qiao's house, the siren was still going!!!! I called Qiao and told him that I was coming right back, after I gathered my stuff for work, and more food. On the way back, I drove down to see where exactly the siren was coming from. It wasn't from where I expected; it was from an empty store even further away.
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Struggled with washing machine. Finally got clothes successfully rinsed and spun dry around 2:15am. Hung them up to dry. Decided I need to buy a new washing machine. Went to bed at 2:30am. Had a hard time falling asleep, even though I had been very tired around midnight.

I set my alarm for 9am, but woke up before 8 and couldn't fall back asleep. Got up, washed, dressed.
Dialed in to 2 Skype meetings for work, then drove to work. Uneventful day at the office.
Around 4:30pm, Qiao called to say the dogs had both gotten out of the yard, and he was walking around looking, but couldn't find them. That was unusual, because all the other times they've gotten out, we've found them right away.
So I left work early to help him look. As I was driving up his driveway, Zorro came ambling out of the bushes from the neighbor's yard. Shortly thereafter, Serena was found a few houses away - a kind neighbor had found them both sitting in the street, but had only managed to coax Serena into her yard, for safety.

Then I found the spot were Serena had dug out under the fence, and reinforced it. (Even though there are still many other spots that need reinforcing, which will require at least a couple more boxes of 12" metal stakes (and hopefully not more fine-mesh fencing too)).

Then I found out that Zorro had gotten herself all muddy. So we drove them to my house so I could give them both a "bath" (with hose and bucket of soapy water) quickly before it got dark.

Now it's 8pm, and I shall do 2 more hours of work from home, to make up for leaving work early.

ransom

Monday, October 9th, 2017 12:20 am
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Dammit. I need to go to bed. I want to go to bed. I might've could've gotten to bed on time tonight. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. The ***** washing machine is acting up again and holding my soapy wet clothes hostage. Grrr.

Note to self: Never use the Heavy Soil cycle again. It often gives me problems.

And while I'm ranting anyway.

What is it with people who have these long boring-sounding telephone conversations while sitting on the toilet in one of the stalls in the bathroom at work?

And what is it with people who don't turn off or silence their cellphones in a movie theater, with the reasoning, "Noone is going to call me." And yet someone else just called them. "They're the only person who would call me, and I told them I'm at the movies. So they won't call again." Oh, really, you're sure about that? I know that person, and I'm not sure that they won't call again. I suppose you never get calls from people who dialed the wrong number, either? No one ever calls you in the evening, really? Why can't you follow the simple courteous rule of silencing your phone? Why should I have to be slightly anxious, worrying that your phone is going to ring after the movie starts? Because you're one of THOSE PEOPLE who are too rude and inconsiderate and selfish to turn off their phones. Because you're too **** lazy to press a **** little button on your phone!

And it's not reasonable to be handled a 32 oz drink when you order a "small"!!! 32 oz is not small.

And ouch **** I just **** hurt my **** hands hitting the **** washer. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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