It just seems that every week presents some element of awful.
Sunday through Thursday nights were all about the dishwasher. It was the one John replaced last Christmas Eve. (Yeah, it lived less than 11 months). (Warranty, you ask? Well, they are “limited,” you know, which means that if your thing dies, they are not going to replace it for free, and if you actually submit the “warranty” paperwork, your email inbox will be spammed to death).
- It wouldn’t fill with water.
- After spending a lot of time laying on the kitchen floor, John isolated the malfunctioning part and ordered it for overnight delivery, which meant two days since it was ordered late in the day.
- Meanwhile, broken dishwasher and sink were busting seams with dirty dishes.
- I did hand-wash a few of them, but I don’t even have a rack!
- Finally the part arrived and John was once again lying on his back on the kitchen floor.
- Then…after installing it, the dishwasher STILL wouldn’t work! Ooops, turned out he’d reinstalled the bad part! (They looked exactly alike, pretty much).
- Back on the floor. On his back.
- New part (for sure this time) installed! THE EFFING DISHWASHER STILL WOULDN’T WORK.
- Turns out it was an electronic issue in the motherboard (or whatever it’s called for a dishwasher).
- (Note: I’d asked the question if it could be electronic since the hot air drying feature had stopped working a few months ago and it seemed like a reasonable troubleshooting question, but I was told in no uncertain terms that, “No way.”)
- Well, guess what? Way!
- John picked up a new dishwasher yesterday and was once again on his back on the kitchen floor, installing it.
- It didn’t come with all the necessary installation parts!
- F-bombs galore. (On both our parts. We’d really had it).
- Trip to Lowe’s for the part. “Why no, you have to purchase the installation kit separately.” “And you didn’t think to let me know this when I bought the dishwasher?” [AND WHY THE HELL DON’T DISHWASHERS COME WITH THE PARTS NECESSARY TO INSTALL THE DAMNED THINGS? DO THEY ASSUME YOU’RE JUST GOING TO PUT A POTTED PLANT ON IT AND CALL IT GOOD?]
- Back on the kitchen floor. On his back.
- And now…it’s installed. And it’s working. (It’s just a relatively low-end machine that is missing some of the conveniences of the previous one and that added to my grumptitude, i.e., no folding racks to accommodate wider items and I swear it’s smaller).
- Slowly, but surely, the dishes strewn every-damned-where are making their way through the maw of the dishwasher and back into the cupboards.
(Yeah…not a happy camper. Either of us.)
I opted not to go to Harstine this weekend. The weather is sucky and I want to work on some glass projects. (In between doing laundry). BUT, John headed down after work today and although he’ll come home Sunday evening, he’s taking all of next week off and will head back down Monday morning. Here’s what he plans to do:
- Install subflooring in the pantry, mudroom, and studio; then primer it.
- Install the vinyl flooring in those rooms (they don’t require the nicer flooring).
- Install at least some of the clear cedar wood in the dining and living room ceilings.
- Chip away at installing decking on the water side.
He’d made another bonzai run down the middle of this week so he could stop at his favorite special lumber yard (then picked up the dishwasher on the way back). While he was down there (briefly), he sent me this picture, which is again poor quality but it shows that the texture had been applied to the walls. It’s a light, soft texture and he said it made such a huge difference in the look of the place. They really look like walls now!
We are very close to needing to paint. (Hoping to get some bids on at least part of it). (And no! We will NOT have white walls!)
What is it with Blackberries and their horrible cameras?
Crap! It’s windy again and the lights are flickering. I don’t dare fire up the glass kiln. I dealt with this the last time I had the opportunity to play with glass. Jeeze!
