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Interesting; I would've anticipated it would have propelled you forward in time. I like that theory. More evidence that time is truly sequential; if all time was really happening simultaneously, music would sound like crap.
I don't have a digital anything on my washer, dryer, stove, or dishwasher. I see it as just something that is going to cause the thing to short-out and burn my house down. First sign of anything being up with a microwave, and that thing goes into the garbage. I had one go so completely haywire, I ran into the utility room and tripped the breaker rather than get close enough to open the door. It was like my bag of popcorn triggered a rift in the time-space continuum on that one.
I honestly believe the people who design TV remote controls are out to get us. What was wrong with a volume up and down button and a channel up and down button? Why do I now have icons and pictures on my remotes? And, of course, the more viewing equipment you have, the more remotes. I now need three remotes just to turn on the TV and get sound!
I have a thirty-nine year-old Maytag that is 100% analog. It runs flawlessly! I recommend that you find one at one of those refurbish places, which is where I got mine.
Bravo! I never screw around with anything electrical, either. I will tear-down a chipper-shredder or a snow thrower, or nearly anything else mechanical -- but, if a humidifier, or a microwave does anything inexplicably weird -- OUT IT GOES! Well... maybe I draw the line on things that have TINY gasoline engines (like you find on hedge-trimmers, for instance). In things like yard and garden maintenance, I have discovered how much I have come to appreciate lithium batteries -- which can be removed!
I swear to god it looked like there was a wave of multi-colored plasma bouncing around inside that thing. It looked like CGI effects it was so crazy. I wasn't getting near it. The house smelled for a good day and half even though I immediately took it outside after making sure there was no active fire going on.
My dishwasher is a Kenmore Elite dating from, oh, the early 90's. My only complaint is that it uses enormous amounts of water and runs for what seems like forever! The biggest trouble we experience with the dishwasher is with the dishwashing detergents, which seem to have undergone some kind of change in the past few years making them less effective than they were before.
Sounds like you may have blown the magnetron in the microwave. If it made loud noises in addition to the light-show, that's probably what it was. You did well to get rid of it. I underwent something like that when my old microwave died -- quite a thing to see and listen to. After that I bought a Panasonic 1200 watt, 1.3 cu.ft. model and like it a lot, but with microwaves, you'll typically get no more than about three or four years and then ANY of them will crap-out. Planned obsolescence....
Your dishwasher is still a babe in the woods compared to mine. It is a general electric from the 70's when my subdivision was built so far as I can tell since everybody who buys a new one seems to put the same one I have out the curb for pick up. If I see any more out there, I am going to snag it for parts in case mine finally breaks down in 30 or 40 more years
Teaspoons - no workplace I have ever worked was able to keep teaspoons in the kitchen. Somewhere there is a dimension where….., Meanwhile I know I can measure the cirrect amount of coffee by using End of a fork Knife Tongue depressor Wooden chopsticks Cotton buds Just dumping the coffee tin into the cup (night duty)
"Cotton buds"? No. No, please don't explain. I'm having some bad images including kids getting a caffeine high from a bloody nose filled with blackened cotton balls.
On a related note, I happen to have caught some of Colbert tonight, and he quoted some news source as saying, incredibly, that they expect 90% of (new) internet articles, to be written by A.I.-- by 2025!! That seems hard to believe, but I doubt that I have a true grasp of how much garbage exists out there, on the web. If you give your washing machine timer, too much grief, it might just apply for an internet writing job, so that you may find yourself needing to drive down to the seedier side of town, and trying to hire off the street, some illegal timer, from Mexico.
Maybe you two should do more washing than once a month...LOL. It is admitted to be true that appliances used to be made to last but today they are made to break down and not be repairable. Ditto car parts. You can't just replace a lightbulb. You have to buy a quarter of the car and pay someone to install it. Recycling economics. I have managed to save money by replacing the hamster I keep in the fuse box. My particular nemesis is The Vacuum Cleaner . If anyone can design one that doesn't require major surgery to keep it free of chunks of dust and animal hair which collects in the most difficult to reach curls and swirls of its abdominal/digestive tract , please let me know.
I run it at least once a day, sometimes twice, As for Vacuum, the shark's are pretty good except the hoses tend to get hard and break after about 5 to 6 years and are pretty impossible to fix. I always keep a spare of those vacuums I buy when I see them half off or better for the holidays. The newer version for pet hair is better than the earlier versions. It has a longer hose and one of those crevice attachments and you can adjust the suction.
God let man invent duct tape for a reason. As they say "If you can't fix it duct it!" Truer words never spoken.
