“Electroflux Mysteria”
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Sorry - foot pain is hard.
I keep praying to the appliance gods that my 25+ year-old refrigerator will make it through the disruptions caused by COVID and the steel tariffs. I’m afraid to rearrange the magnet collection lest I upset some mystical force field protecting it.
My friend had to buy a new washer recently; I warned her to filter the online search to what was available to avoid frustration. We are not in a major metropolitan area, so she wound up with a choice between exactly 2 models that were available within 10 days.
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How else can you ride it?
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I’m not fussy about appliances at all. If they do the main thing they’re made to do with a degree of reliability that’s really all I ask. I’ve learned a lot about fixing them over the years because I really, really hate to replace them. “They’ll be there between 10 and 2” always sets my teeth on edge.
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Dept. of Found Humor:
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The same friend found a good repairman who got her refrigerator going again. This is a good thing because she needs a smaller size that isn’t always easy to find.
So I will give him a try if I have problems. This refrigerator got moved 5 times in its early years, but has lived a placid existence since 2003, slowly accumulating magnets. Whether it needs to be moved or replaced, I will need a little time to clear it.
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Sounds more like a vacuum with good design
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“ . . .in an effort to continue grifting”
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At least you don’t get a lot of fingerprints. 
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The bottom third is clear for nose prints.
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“Finally!” the cats all say. “A vacuum cleaner that’s good for something!”
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My dog ignores the Roomba except to move out of its way, but she gets really pissed of at the vacuum cleaner.
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Roombas must be mellower noise-wise than vacuum cleaners, because my cats have always detested the latter. My last one would creep away to a hiding place the instant he saw it.
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In some of the medical literature now, each author’s contribution to the work is listed at the end, and journal editors are weeding out authors’ whose contribution was something like, “Being head of the lab, bringing in funding for the work, and proofreading the final paper.”
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Yeah I am really surprised at those cats who more or less jump on for the ride. It makes me want to get a roomba for the cat.
where did my avatar go? WTF?
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I’m seeing it fine. But I was having trouble on a Windows laptop earlier. Some little server hiccup.
I’m on a mac air and I’m glad you can see it - it must be me. Site’s slow for me anyhow and I have to keep reloading the page to get it all.
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Yeah, i have a colleague who’s a department head who manages to get his name on way too much stuff that way. I chaired a couple of working groups over 6-7 years where he got himself officially appointed but never showed up to meetings and never did stuff. Because of the nature of the working groups, I couldn’t remove his name, so my small revenge was to put “(inactive)” after his name in the final reports. I hate that crap. I only credit folks whose brainpower contributed in some way to the results.
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