Yeah, slow-paying is a huge problem for everyone. Ugh.
I am already so tired, I'm considering taking off Monday. I woke up this morning at regular-work time (unnecessarily), but tomorrow I have to wake up then too!
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Jesse - Feb 28, 2009 3:09:15 am PST #8644 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sheryl - Feb 28, 2009 4:49:26 am PST #8645 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Gonna try to sell some books to the local used book shop today.
Theodosia - Feb 28, 2009 4:57:29 am PST #8646 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm in class, and it looks like the first thing I tried in the complicated program that's due, worked! That is very encouraging for the rest of what I have to get working today.
beth b - Feb 28, 2009 5:28:59 am PST #8647 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
msbelle - Feb 28, 2009 5:31:47 am PST #8648 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Today's karate is featuring special guest mac's uncle. He is watching inside the karate romm (which I have been asked not to do except for tests). I am feeling almost normal and the throat is only a little sore on one side. Yay! Still 7 days left on the antibiotics.
Scrappy - Feb 28, 2009 6:04:19 am PST #8649 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We have Kenmore (Sears) front load washer and dryer. [link] In our old place they were stacked, and now we have them side-by-side. They work great and we got rebates from the city for buying efficient units.
Sue - Feb 28, 2009 6:13:40 am PST #8650 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Looks like I am going washing machine shopping! I talked to a repair guy this morning and the transmission is gone. He said it would be minimum $200-250 to repair if it's only the transmission, but he wouldn't know for sure until he took the machine apart. I also looked up the average lifespan of a washing machine, and it seems to be from 7-13 years. Mines' at least 12, probably older.
I did find this neat PDF doc that tells you the expected lifespan of everything in your house.:
brenda m - Feb 28, 2009 6:25:46 am PST #8651 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Thanks, Scrappy. I think if my bonus comes out reasonable I'll have to start doing some shopping around. I can live with the washer but I hadn't even realized how much the dryer situation was frustrating me until I started talking about it. I should be able to cut a pretty good deal these days, right? You'd think, anyway.
Theodosia - Feb 28, 2009 6:48:58 am PST #8652 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hell, you could probably find yourself a good deal on a barely used one from a foreclosed home, in the right neighborhood.
Mark Morford had a good column on SFGate.com about dropping back into a reflex position of remembering that Obama is president and things could be much much worse.
Liese S. - Feb 28, 2009 7:24:35 am PST #8653 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, we bought new older model high efficiency Kenmores and we love them. We leave the washer door and detergent drawer open for a bit after use and have had no problems with smell. We live in the desert, so humidity's not a factor, but still. They work well, the washer wrings them out so well that the dryer hardly takes any time, and we're about to start using the outside line anyway.
Our longest cycle time is about 84 minutes, I think, for super duper nuke the germs white cycle. The dryer time varies, but the only time it's been a problem is drying our king-sized flannel duvet cover, because it gets all folded up and doesn't dry at the folds.
Other than that it's been awesome other than the time I tried to wash a mop head. It said it was washable! It was not. But thanks to the internets, I disassembled and cleaned out the plugged up filter myself.