I wasn’t planning on posting at all today, but this is so typical of the way things work that I had to mention it. This morning, I started doing all the laundry I had from the week out of town. When I put the first load in the drier and hit the “start” button, the clothes started going around again, but the fire wouldn’t light, so it was just cold air going over the clothes.
This has happened before, and I’ve had Minnegasco out twice to fix the drier. They’re stumped, since it usually works fine when a repairman is here, and only fails on weekends and holidays. In any case, I’d had enough. Rather than the more satisfying approach of using the drier for target practice, I headed over to Warners’ Stellian to order a new one. Almost $500 later, a new drier will be delivered to me on Wednesday, but I’ll either have to hook it up myself or pay someone around another $100 to connect it. Whatever. I’ll have a drier that should always work, and that’s worth quite a bit to me.
But here’s the kicker. When I got home and tried the drier one last time, it fired up on the first try. Works flawlessly now. If anyone wants a gas drier that’s inhabited by gremlins, it’s yours for picking it up. Just let me know before 8am on Wednesday, or I’ll let them haul it away.
And since I had to write this up, I figure what the heck, I’ll post some links for the day, too. Enjoy.
- Want to be able to read a Chinese menu? Mei Wah is the class for you. I pointed to it before, but now it’s complete, and I still think it looks pretty good. [flutterby]
- The Mercury News even had a story on ‘Plain Layne’ and Odin Soli: an Internet hoax. [mitch]
- Every now and again, Reed and I will talk about Programmer Fonts and it seems this time around that Bitstream Vera is one of the better open-source fonts. [reed]
- In Slumming With The Peasants, Kim du Toit has some commentary on John Kerry’s recent attempts to show he’s a reg’lar gun-totin’,
ordinary Joseph
. Why is it politicians who obviously never go shooting even try to portray themselves as knowing anything at all about guns? They invariably screw up and look worse for it. [endwar] - Who was the greatest president? Silent Cal Had a Lot To Say, cut the size of government, reduced the deficit, and by the end of his term had 98% of Americans paying no income tax. We need another like him, without a Hoover to screw it all up afterwards. [claire]