I really love the theme I’ve chosen for this site. It’s calm and classy. The only thing I don’t like about it is that the sidebar isn’t “widget aware” and all my attempts to make it so have crashed and burned. But I want this theme and a widget aware sidebar. So that’s one of the first things I’m going to work on once I’m done with this last class.
Wish me luck.
We have a land line with AT&T phone service. My gripe? I have Privacy Manager® to keep from having the pesky people who don’t feel they should have to announce themselves ringing into my house. To me, the phone is like my front door. If I want to look out the window and decide I don’t want to answer the door, it’s my door – my decision. Same thing with my phone.
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I have had this Maytag Epic since April of 2007. It’s been a great machine and haven’t had any trouble with it at all – until now. I started getting an F02 error code with almost every load. Ok, so I look it up and the manual talks about kinks in the outlet pipe. What the manual never mentions is that something could be clogging up the drainage pipe like right under the washing drum. Thank goodness for 4 year extended warranties. So I call and today the tech arrives. He pulls the drain trap and empties the contents into a pan. There was a whole washcloth stuffed in the drain trap. It looked like a big clump of lint (only nastier – if that’s possible). Apparently there is enough room around the seal for an entire washcloth to get lost in there. Ok, I’m washing baby socks, and small kids socks, which are pretty small. The tech did say he had never seen a washcloth, but he pulls out kids socks all the time and thongs (eeewww!). So much for the myth that the washing machine does not eat socks! I’ve seen it for myself! It chokes on them, but it most certainly eats socks and anything else, including money, ink pens, and buttons.
Next month I will be going to a class reunion. With an upcoming reunion comes an increased desire to reconnect with old friends and even old boyfriends. Michael Robison, who I dated for several years in high school and after, had started coming to mind more and more, so I did my usual Google search. Ever curious about people who have once been a part of my life and are no longer a part, Michael’s name had been searched on more than one occasion over the years, but nothing had ever popped up. I thought that was unusual as computers would be the perfect way to keep filling his mind with information as it has mine. We were very alike in that way. However, I also knew that if he had a big disdain for something that he would avoid it like the plague. For all I knew, he had a dislike for computers, because I certainly had never found him.
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I have had the Maytag Epic pair for over a year now. Overall, I am very pleased with the pair. One thing I am not used to is the lack of sloshing water when washing clothes. I had always used the most water possible with my toploaders and I liked being able to control the amount of water. The Epic doesn’t allow me to override the amount of water used during a cycle, or the water temperature for a certain type of wash cycle, or the spin speed. While I get why that’s done, some of us actually do know how to do laundry. The only way I have found that I can override the amount of water the washer uses is to run the soak cycle a couple of times and then run a normal wash. The washer won’t spin out and will continue adding water. I find that trick helpful with towels and sheets, or stained items.
Another thing I don’t do is load the washer to its limit. I still like to wash “like” clothes together (I don’t mix shirts with knits or jeans with anything else), and with only 2 of us, we don’t have big loads unless it’s sheet day. I don’t feel too bad doing small loads since the water usage is very low.
Another great thing about this pair is the dry time. The biggest problem when doing laundry was having the washed clothes stack up while the dryer was drying loads. Now even jeans dry in about 35 minutes. That means I can have a load washing while I dry, fold, hang up, and iron what’s in the dryer (not that I do that all the time – but I could) before the washer is finished.