What are you doing right now?

[Vannie]

Yea RB and 203

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[Vannie]

Your guitar playing was horrible Rick.

At the moment I'm baking Banana bread. 2 with chocolate chips and 2 with walnuts. And roasting another chicken for whatever.

 

[rareboy]

I am very sad this evening.

A group I have been working with is being hijacked for the time being by someone that I beleive is undergoing a mental health/neurophysiological/cardiovascular crisis that is making him act out in terrible ways and I have become the objest of his irrational fixation as the Chair of the organization.

So I have resigned last evening in order to de-escalate the situation, which means I spent almost all day today fielding off emails and everyone else's crisis because of this.

And I feel badly for him and his family because he was one of the most important figures in his field about 25 years ago.

And I feel badly for everyone else because they all feel so shitty today.

And I feel badly for myself because I didn't do anything to be so badly treated except I understand ( I think). the origins of his anger and it may destroy this lovely organization I am trying to help.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ Sorry to read this.

Have been so underemployed throughout my life that it barely registers that some people actually spend their days doing important things.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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Will be making the X-mas pudding recipe again you gave me last year soon.

It was a big success last year.

Tonight my mother (in whose house I live) held a dinner party for five of her friends. Naturally, I helped making some of the dishes.

The main course entailed an Indonesian beef stew from a cookbook we bought at the TongTong Fair.
A Dutch-Indonesian fair in The Hague (the Dutch were in Indonesia for three hundred years).

Made that yesterday. It was a big success. Even with the friend who was from Dutch-Indonesia!

 

[Reischfleger]

At this moment I am writing this answer and I just had a tequila shot

 

[NotHardUp1]

Crashing from a day of shopping for and replacing my dead fridge. Looked online, then at four places in town in person, with a neighbor in tow.

Finally bought an LG for only $599 because Lowe's had used it as a floor model and either damaged the handles, or more likely, cannibalized them to provide some customer replacements for ones Lowe's damaged during installation or delivery. At any rate, the fridge was $2199 not on sale, so about 75% off simply because they were too dysfunctional to order four replacement handles. I got it home, go online and on the phone and reached LG and they are sending them FREE!!!! Woohoo!

Now, I'm sitting here enjoying the end of Ming Tsai's show, another one featuring his cute kid, Henry. He's always so giggly on there, and it does the heart good to see father and son work so well and apparently have so much fun on the show.

 

[NotHardUp1]

We have a Kitchen Aid side by side stainless unit in the kitchen and we can hear the compressor grumbling over the last year. It is only about 20 years old, but apparently, even though you can get a new compressor....there is literally no one within 60 Kilometres who can do the work...I am glad cold weather is coming because at least if it craps out, we can use coolers in the garage and the freezers downstairs.

I just read the manual on my new one, and it has an unconventional compressor that uses magnets. Sounds interesting. Supposed to be super quiet. It's still on the back of my truck in the drive, as I don't have anyone yet to help get it up a flight of stairs. Tomorrow.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Raking the leaves.

 

[rareboy]

Crashing from a day of shopping for and replacing my dead fridge. Looked online, then at four places in town in person, with a neighbor in tow.

Finally bought an LG for only $599 because Lowe's had used it as a floor model and either damaged the handles, or more likely, cannibalized them to provide some customer replacements for ones Lowe's damaged during installation or delivery. At any rate, the fridge was $2199 not on sale, so about 75% off simply because they were too dysfunctional to order four replacement handles. I got it home, go online and on the phone and reached LG and they are sending them FREE!!!! Woohoo!

Now, I'm sitting here enjoying the end of Ming Tsai's show, another one featuring his cute kid, Henry. He's always so giggly on there, and it does the heart good to see father and son work so well and apparently have so much fun on the show.

We chose LG washer and dryer the last time around and so far, they have performed well.

Enjoy your new fridge. But you probably should have sprung for delivery and had young hung bucks haul it up those stairs.

Otherwise. Get some Roboxocet and linament. At our age (after 35) we really shouldn't be slinging appliances.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Thank you.

Oh, I did hire two young men to come move it up this morning and paid them well. I'll leave out the details of how I still had to manage it. So Alabaman.

The fridge is now ensconced in my kitchen, the old one down on the drive beside my trash, and I still had to run back to Lowe's to get a water filter because there wasn't one in it. Yet, I'm still out less than $950 total, for a fridge more than twice that price, new. I feel good.

 

[me203]

Otherwise. Get some Roboxocet and linament. At our age (after 35) we really shouldn't be slinging appliances.

I've had the "joy" of moving washers/dryers in and out of the laundry room where I live. In ten years or so, I've had 3 different washers and 3 different dryers. (Changes were sometimes at the same time, sometimes not.) Even with a hand truck, it's painful. The worst were the times when something went in that clearly would not work and had to go out immediately. One washer leaked water. Another had a moldy smell. I tried to clean that washer up before using it with hot water and bleach (with a good soak)--and had no luck. Someone todl me that there was probably mold build up above the water line. (Spin drain washer, so water can splash up enough to create a mold problem over the years. That washer was at least 30 years old at the time I saw it.)

 

[me203]

I just read the manual on my new one, and it has an unconventional compressor that uses magnets. Sounds interesting. Supposed to be super quiet. It's still on the back of my truck in the drive, as I don't have anyone yet to help get it up a flight of stairs. Tomorrow.

It would be interesting to know how noisy it is!

I've noticed noise is a selling point they make at Home Depot every time I've wandered through the appliances. One time was with a cheap washer (which I might been drooling over, because of problems with a washer provided by the landlord--like the one I mentioned above that had a mold reek that warped the paint on the ceiling.) "If you go up $200, you can get something much quieter!" the salesperson intoned. I frankly don't care--I'm more interested in "does this thing do the job?" And if I were buying new, I'd be buying cheap on the theory nothing lasts--and the stuff built to last costs a lot more than $200 and won't be findable at Home Depot, anyway.

I'd have to think, though, that no matter how quiet that LG is that a 1940s Servel might be quieter. They used a compressor-less system that was based around a gas flame. Kind of odd using heat to cool! Silent operation was a big point in their magazine ads. I remember one with a woman saying how strange it was hearing how quiet her in-laws refrigerator was--especially when she learned how old it was!

 

[me203]

Speaking of laundry appliances...I should probably start a load of laundry. I've got to do at least 2 loads this weekend--and I could justify doing more.

As always, I think maybe I should move to a nudity colony to reduce the laundry. Or maybe just have tatoos of clothing put on my body so it looks like I'm dressed even when nude. ("Don't know where he gets those clothes," the old woman at the store mutters, "but they sure seem to be really fit tightly!")

 

[me203]

Got the load of laundry washed and now in the dryer. Sometimes the washer likes to piss me off by not going into spin, and today was one of the days I had to go out to encourage it. (At least, it's not as bad the previous washer, which always needed a helping hand when it came time to spin.)

I got a pot of soup started. That reminded me of some issues of the refrigerator that makes me envy those of you who can have a new fridge.

I know I'm poor, white trash, and should be grateful for appliances that "sort of" work "most of the time"--but it does get tiresome.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ At least you don't live in Skid Row...

 

[NotHardUp1]

Got the load of laundry washed and now in the dryer. Sometimes the washer likes to piss me off by not going into spin, and today was one of the days I had to go out to encourage it. (At least, it's not as bad the previous washer, which always needed a helping hand when it came time to spin.)

I got a pot of soup started. That reminded me of some issues of the refrigerator that makes me envy those of you who can have a new fridge.

I know I'm poor, white trash, and should be grateful for appliances that "sort of" work "most of the time"--but it does get tiresome.

What kind of soup?

And remember that some of us had to buy a fridge when we had other plans because the old one failed. That's never fun. I'm also using it without handles until they are shipped, but that is little worry.

My washer gets out of balance too easiliy. I frequently have to rebalance it or remove items. It's supposed to high volume. My ass.

 

[rareboy]

What kind of soup?

And remember that some of us had to buy a fridge when we had other plans because the old one failed. That's never fun. I'm also using it without handles until they are shipped, but that is little worry.

My washer gets out of balance too easiliy. I frequently have to rebalance it or remove items. It's supposed to high volume. My ass.

It is soup and stew time....we grew a ton of leeks so have these prepped for potato leek soup and just did a huge pot of stew. We'll bag these up for my Aunt to see her through the rest of fall and into winter.

Otherwise...after 2 days of raking a shit ton of maple leaves and using them to mulch the west lawn rose beds....there were enough to cover the whole 1200 square feet strip....where the fuck did all the leaves come from this year (?). oh god my back is screaming.

 

[me203]

What kind of soup?

A vegetable soup. I've been playing with some recipe for "Vegetable pot pie" stew. Yesterday was more "soup" than stew, though. So far, I haven't actually done the recipe as it was written out. Although part of that is intent--the original recipe was a slow cooker recipe, but I want to experiment with a new-to-me induction burner I got in a thrift store.

My washer gets out of balance too easiliy. I frequently have to rebalance it or remove items. It's supposed to high volume. My ass.

My mother used a Kenmore, and one of the strong memories I have is the wake=the-dead off balance buzzer--and how often it went off. There was IIRC one set of towels that was the big problem, or so she thought. Oddly, she urged me to use those towels as much as possible in hopes they'd wear out. I'd think it would be better to just dump them. (They'd been some gift, and she had a thing about keeping and using gifts, no matter what.)

One thing that was good about that washer--it about 20-some years, with only a couple of minor repairs.

 

[me203]

Just got another load of laundry done. Today's excitement: trying a Tide Pod for the first time ever. I was worried the excitement might make me wet my pants, and generate more laundry. But I was kind of curious about those pods--but I can't imagine using them regularly. Even bought on a good sale--like I did--they are painfully expensive.