Timelies all!

Gonna try to sell some books to the local used book shop today.

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.

Time for your bad morning video

vampires are alive by dj bobo

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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.

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.

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.:

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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.

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.

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.

For people who couldn't get a good view of the Oscar's In Memoriam segment.