How do we feel about these boots?
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I like them, Dana
Brenda, the all-in-one washer/dryer are popular on boats. From everyone I know that has one, they are not on. They take for.ever (in excess of 3 hours) to do one load and often they don't get the clothes dry. On boats they have a tendancy to overflow too which is extra bad. My one friend hates hers so much she uses the laundromat or she borrows ours - thankfully we have a full size washer and dryer on the boat and since we don't live aboard any more it's easier for her to schlep her laundry down the dock!
Dana, I like those boots
They take for.ever (in excess of 3 hours) to do one load and often they don't get the clothes dry.
See, but this is my situation now. And with half the space. They're expensive enough that I won't jump from this pan into that fire, but damn.
What kind of high efficiency W/D do you have now, Brenda?
The drawback that she hates the most is the inability to wash one load while the other dries. So it takes her all weekend just to get a week's worth of laundry done.
It's a Maytag something or other. Part of the frustration is that nowhere does it tell you (in the manual, or in a gazillion places online) how long things *should* take. Because it's all woo-woo-sensors! and shit. So all I know is that even the anticipated time that shows up when you put something in seems obscenely long (33 minutes quickwash, 50 something for regular, 126 for dry cycle) but then in practice the time just keeps recalibrating.
I wonder if there are high efficiency washers and dryers that work. I would think there would be.
Well crap Brenda, that sounds worse than the all-in-one! We just bought a washer/dryer for my mother-in-law's house (since there's now 5 people doing laundry) and we went Old Skool and just got Kenmore low-tech ones (they ran about $400 or so each) but the wash cycle is equal to a regular dry cycle (except for jeans) - they run about 45 min for each. I can get 3 loads done in a couple of hours. I think the washer uses a ton more water than the HE ones though and since we're in drought-y CA we probably should have been more "water-wise" but eh? we didn't have the cash!
Can you go back to JPL as a worst-case scenario?
Hiring freeze.
Having moments of terror, but trying to stay focused...