"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

Bad 24 hours
June 22, 2009 - 6:03 pm

What's gone wrong you ask?

Exhibit A:
While cleaning yesterday, I tweaked my back. At first, I thought no big deal.. but worse and worse it got. Worse to the point that I ended up laying on the floor to watch US beat Egypt (which was most excellent)... but then I realized, I'm not at all sure how I'm going to get up.

Upon sorting that out, I did some laundry. At which time things got worse with the washer making decidedly unwasherly noises while spinning. A faint smell of something burning confirmed that it's sick. Now, keep in mind, I'm damn sure it's the original washer from when this place was built -- which is to say it rivals me in age.

Still... I was faced with a pretty pissed off back, a washer not really fit for washing and a looming choice on AC vs new car.

Lucky for me, I thought to measure the current washer to see just how big it was.. whereupon I realized there's a real space limit to the nook it sits in. There's more than enough space for any top loader model -- those all seem to be about the same depth. The problem is with the new, fancy front loaders. These are markedly deep and therefore problematic.

The debate ensued -- get a nice, eco friendly front loader or a traditional top loader?

Mix in that if I was to get it delivered on Wed (like I decided I wanted) I had to decide which model to get last night and buy it today. This is unheard of speed for me to make such a choice. Unheard of.

After much site reading... and after realizing that size limit which knocked out all my first choices. I realized that each retailer I looked at only had one front loader that fit my criteria.

Choice suddenly became much, much easier.

One place is having a sale.. and so, there's the winner. Freaking marvelous to find an unchangeable factor to reduce my never ending quest to read and re-read reviews.

I've also noticed that there is a very high correlation between people who type 10x worse that I do here and buying a 'lemon' of a washer.

I spent all of 10 minutes in the store and even entertained the lady's offer to try and talk me into the next size larger. She seemed to think one inch of room at the back would be plenty for hoses and such. I'm nervous about the 2.75" that I'll have with this small model.

I marvel at my ability to drop large amounts of cash in such a short time.

I also made the call schedule my car's appointment... the washer going really seals the deal as far as just fixing it.

At least my back is starting to feel better. The freakin' chairs at work -- even though they are new and all ergonomic -- suck.