My sad rant for today: the disintegration of my pizza stone.
Fortunately, I wasn’t baking a pizza. That was yesterday. I was just moving the stone from the upper oven rack to the lowest one where I keep it, for lack of any other convenient storage space and because I thought it might contribute to keeping the oven temp more even.
But alas, all the heating and cooling over the years seemed to have weakened it, and huge piece of it came off in my hand. Now I’ll have to smash the remains and either find a new one or find a different way of baking pizza.
I got my rent bill e-mail yesterday. I said I was required to pay an extra $50 because I was month to month instead of on a lease. This scared the hell out of me as I distinctly remember signing my lease. Management, as usual, knew nothing about anything. They asked if I had a copy of the lease. I looked on the rent payment website. The copy of the lease stored there shows checkmarks in both the ‘I wanna stay for a year’ and ‘I wanna move out in the next 60 days’ boxes. I called the management office again. I explained that I want to stay for a year. I am currently very worried that I will be forced to move out. Hopefully, things will be resolved soon.
I’m in the same boat! I don’t really care whether someone’s wearing a mask, but I find it irksome when they wear a mask and their damned nose is sticking out.
So far, we’ve had repeated bouts of constipation, including fevers sometime, that have not be explained. The diary doesn’t show me a pattern yet. I’m frustrated.
But the boy is growing and happy, for the most part, so I should count my blessings.
Yeah, they are. Even without all the bells and whistles, which most seem to have in abundance. You have my sympathies, also in abundance!
I have a Samsung, which was fine for the first few years but is now firmly in “one damn thing after another” territory. Avoid.
Congrats to Mundane Super Hero and to slalexan for having somewhat good news to brighten our gloomy halls. May your paycheck increase and your child’s maladies be diagnosed.
Whatever you do, don’t buy a Whirlpool. We did a kitchen remodel 5 years ago and bought a nice Whirlpool. A few months back it stopped working. I did some troubleshooting and found a defective compressor start relay. Ordered one from Amazon, installed it, and it worked again…for a month. I got home from work and the refrigerator was gone. My gf found a store that would haul away the old one and bring a new one. She has no patience for repairs.
Meanwhile, just 40 days prior, we had bought a new refrigerator for our basement (a beer fridge). It was a Whirlpool. It stopped working, but at least it was under warranty. The service guy found the problem but the part was “currently back-ordered”. He got it working and has returned every two weeks (no part yet) to manually do what the part would do automatically. It must be costing Whirlpool a pile of change sending a repair guy out for a half day of labor every two weeks!
Less of a rant than an oh my God. Going 75 mph down the freeway in the center of three lanes. Cars speeding on my left, semi truck on my right. The car directly in front of me darts into the right lane, cutting off the semi, and I look up and see myself heading directly for a giant metal barrel looming in the center of my lane. I pulled as far right as I could go without hitting the semi and skirted around it. Jesus Christ am I lucky to be alive. I didn’t think about it at the time but if I had hit that barrel with the corner of my car it probably would have went flying into the left lane and caused a collision there. The only good outcome was not hitting it.
That’s what I keep coming back to with Wee Weasel. This is stressful and frustrating but also he’s a happy, thriving kid. It matters.
The repair guy told us that pretty much all the brands are crap these days. Because we were in kind of a rush we ended up getting an expensive one with bells and whistles we may not use… We were kind of limited in selection because we need a smaller height than standard. And it came down to the damned color. Everything in our kitchen is black so we wanted the black stainless, and that was the only model that fit the height and width requirements that we could get this week. I got home and read the reviews and they are… Not great. Lots of service calls required. Good thing we got a five year service plan.
I am excited about all the extra fridge space though. Going from 19 cubic feet to 25 is pretty exciting. I buy a lot of produce and a lot of it goes to waste just because I can’t see everything in my fridge. And it’s freezer on the bottom with French doors, so I’ll be able to see even better.
When I moved into a rented house with a couple of friends in 1976, we bought a small Admiral brand fridge from a discount furniture store. 46 years later, it’s sitting in the basement, keeping the extra milk and eggs and a ready supply of drinks cold. No fancy features, just a single manual dial for the temperature setting. Other than needing to defrost the freezer compartment once or twice a year we’ve had no problems with it. (/anti-rant)
Ha! That question tweaked a dim recollection. The answer is “apparently not”, because I found a replacement by the simple expedient of going down to the basement where I had another one that I had forgotten about, still in its original box! I actually have no clear idea about why I had two.
But otherwise, yes, I’m not really sure where I would look for one. One of my favourite stores for that sort of thing, a place that had every imaginable item of cookware or kitchen gadgetry, is no longer around.
My fridge is a fairly basic LG model, so its of the generation when Korean electronics manufacturers had got into the home appliance market. Probably about 12 years old. It makes odd popping noises sometimes when it shuts down, but otherwise has been solid. OTOH a friend has a fancier fridge – not sure what brand, but the kind with the lower freezer drawer – and the compressor failed. Just totally conked out. I think it took more than week to get a replacement.
Please give him an extra snuggle from me (I love babies and children, at least up until adolescence kicks in). I really hope either your doctor starts actually paying attention or you can get the little guy to someone who will.
I just want to say that we’ve had a GE fridge for a decade now. It has only had a couple of minor issues and I was able to fix them myself by getting easy-to-find parts online and doing the repairs. Once the freezer was frosting over and I figured out that the ice maker door wasn’t sealing properly. Amazon had another door for $10 and it was easy to swap. So it was fixed in a day for $10 once I figured it out.
So if Whirlpool and Samsung fridges suck, maybe look at GE. It has been pretty solid.
No complaints here about Whirlpool. Our Whirlpool fridge is 20 years old and the only problem I’ve ever had with it was the ice maker needing to be replaced (which, thanks to YouTube, I was able to do myself). Our Whirlpool range is about 10 years old and has also been trouble-free.
All the appliances in my apartment are Whirlpool, and generally work fine. Did have a washer drain back up and a dryer vent get clogged to the point that clothes weren’t getting dry (two separate occasions), but maintenance here is good about getting after such things ASAP.
