Monthly Archives: March 2007

Mar 30

Laundry Angst Update

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Remember the stuff that was in the washers? Yeah, it was still there the next morning, so I just emptied one washer and piled it into the other one. Then I did my one load of laundry I had time to do, throwing someone’s stuff from one dryer onto the table.

Then today I needed to do two loads. Thankfully there was nothing in either washer, but the top dryer had the same clothes that were in the washers on Tuesday morning in it, and it was cold, indicating that it had been off quite awhile. WTF? I pulled the stuff out and threw it on the table, and put my loads into the dryers. Then when I went to retrieve them, I ran into the owner of the laundry. I didn’t say anything to her, she was too busy talking on her cell phone anyway.

Mar 27

Laundry Angst.

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Why is it so hard for people to keep track of their laundry? I came home after work tonight (around 12:45am) expecting the washers and dryers to be empty, but no.. there was stuff in both washers which had been sitting there, presumably, all night (the facility was in use this afternoon before I went to work at 3:30pm). [Warning long rant follows] Continue reading →

Mar 23

Upgrading WordPress.

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Things might come out broken. I hope not though. Cross your fingers.

Edit: Done! Yay, relatively painless.

Edit 2: Oh Noes! I just noticed a big fat mysql error. crap..

Edit 3: fixed. Darn those WP coders.. changing database tables around on me.. garh. The good news is that they shortened the amount of PHP code needed to do that same list of links I have on the right (from Affiliations through Links) from a few lines down to one mere function. Yippee! :p

Mar 11

Of Sickness and Sinks

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Got sick again last weekend (3/4), I’m pretty sure I just ate something bad, but since I now have health insurance I didn’t take any chances and went to a clinic on Monday. The doctor there gave me a shot for nausea (which didn’t work all that well since I gagged in the car again on the way home), and sent me to Sparrow for bloodwork. I still have no idea what the results were however since no-one from the clinic has bothered to call me back. I’m still feeling pretty off, though the puking has stopped.

The dishwasher/sink saga continues.. a couple weeks ago I decided to call the apt complex office to see what their progress was on getting a new seal for our dishwasher, since when it leaked in late January I was told that the maintenance guy who cleaned the seal the day before filled it up with water and that was what leaked out on the floor/carpet in our kitchen/dining room. Turns out that wasn’t the case at all – their new story is that the drain pipe backed up, filled up our kitchen drain with water, which then backed down into the dishwasher and filled it with water, which then leaked on the floor since it overfilled the dishwasher. They said that they ended up snaking the drain then and that is why we haven’t been hearing the drain gurgle and having the upstairs neighbor’s dishwasher foam back up in our left kitchen sink since that time. However, a couple days ago I started hearing gurgling noises again, so I think I’m going to call them and say something like – “Hey, our kitchen sink is gurgling again.. please remember the last time we warned you about this, we had water all over our dining room carpet despite all reassurances from maintenance that the drain was working fine.”
The dishwasher itself seems to be working alright. It does still leak a small amount of water when running it, but just putting a towel under the door sops it up. The last time the maintenance guy was here I told him about the burning smell coming from it, and sure enough there was a plastic lid and several plastic spoons melted onto the heating element which he removed.