Just one quick bitch ...

[Parts]

For the moment, I'm bitchin' about appliances in general ... but, one in particular.


Our laundry dryer quit working tonight while my wife was doing some urgent catching up. She had some of her work uniforms and a huge load of undie-things all wet when it stopped.

The next half hour was all about a panic attack (hormonal, I might guess and if she sees this               .......        then,   -  seriously!) and how this can't happen, NOW!! This just can't fucking happen!

... but it did and there was nothing I could see wrong that I could fix. It seems obvious that some form of safety attachment, which safeguards us from ourselves and our dangerous laundry, has malfunctioned, but it's fucking SUNDAY NIGHT!!  It can't be fixed right now!!


I went into the top storage areas of the garage and grabbed two big-heavy-assed background stands from the old photography days and a crossbar, whic I erected next to the heat vent in the dining room. Now we have twelve feet of indoor "line" to hang up things that can go on hangers.
I then found some old (brand new, but I've had it for a while)  garden tie rope and strung it across the kitchen, between the cabinet handles to fashion a makeshift indoor (It is still many degrees below freezing outside - that's not an option!) clothesline, four lines across the kitchen! FFS!!

She's calmer, I'm calmer, everyone is calmer and there is underwear and t-shirts and socks and thermals hanging in the kitchen.





... best I could think of at the time.

Electric or gas?  Could be a belt they go every few years.  With that you'd get heat but no spin.   Both gas and electric ones have sensors so they don't over heat.  If electric it could also be the heating element gas it could be a dirty nossel on the burner

[Icequeen]

If it's electric there's not much to them usually. If they don't come on belt or switch is the most common thing, no heat usually hi-low thermo or heating element.

All the ones I've had to fix so far for relatives usually ended up costing me less than $20 in parts.

[Pissgai]

I had a dream where I was committing adultery with some naked chick, but I couldn't fit it inside of her pussy. 

She killed me afterwards, though -- an assassin, go figure. 

[TheoK]

Cowardly snow coming down and then melting. 

[Phlexor]

sunscreen feels yucky, like a constant hell. And yes, I know it's needed.

And I've yet to find the hat that has adequate coverage from the sun and also says "me".

Yeah, you're right. Sunburn's just a lot cooler.

Staying indoors is better.

[odeon]

sunscreen feels yucky, like a constant hell. And yes, I know it's needed.

And I've yet to find the hat that has adequate coverage from the sun and also says "me".

Yeah, you're right. Sunburn's just a lot cooler.

Staying indoors is better.

True.

[Pyraxis]

I had a dream where I was committing adultery with some naked chick, but I couldn't fit it inside of her pussy. 

She killed me afterwards, though -- an assassin, go figure. 

  You have interesting dreams.

[Pyraxis]

My face has decided I'm no longer a hospitable environment for habitation.

 
Here's to hoping you did not lose face in uncontrollable public areas.

  Actually not, because what I was bitching about was an eczema outbreak, and it got bad on the Friday of the long weekend.

Now I get to find out whether I've gotten any better at healing. Just got off a course of steroids and don't want to have to go right back on. The whole thing's bugging me far more than it usually does, which is probably a good sign. We'll see whether I can do benevolence yet.

[DirtDawg]

For the moment, I'm bitchin' about appliances in general ... but, one in particular.


Our laundry dryer quit working tonight while my wife was doing some urgent catching up. She had some of her work uniforms and a huge load of undie-things all wet when it stopped.

The next half hour was all about a panic attack (hormonal, I might guess and if she sees this               .......        then,   -  seriously!) and how this can't happen, NOW!! This just can't fucking happen!

... but it did and there was nothing I could see wrong that I could fix. It seems obvious that some form of safety attachment, which safeguards us from ourselves and our dangerous laundry, has malfunctioned, but it's fucking SUNDAY NIGHT!!  It can't be fixed right now!!


I went into the top storage areas of the garage and grabbed two big-heavy-assed background stands from the old photography days and a crossbar, whic I erected next to the heat vent in the dining room. Now we have twelve feet of indoor "line" to hang up things that can go on hangers.
I then found some old (brand new, but I've had it for a while)  garden tie rope and strung it across the kitchen, between the cabinet handles to fashion a makeshift indoor (It is still many degrees below freezing outside - that's not an option!) clothesline, four lines across the kitchen! FFS!!

She's calmer, I'm calmer, everyone is calmer and there is underwear and t-shirts and socks and thermals hanging in the kitchen.





... best I could think of at the time.

Electric or gas?  Could be a belt they go every few years.  With that you'd get heat but no spin.   Both gas and electric ones have sensors so they don't over heat.  If electric it could also be the heating element gas it could be a dirty nossel on the burner

Thanks, but it's not the belt or the timer. I'm pretty sure there is a problem with either the door safety switch (which actually "feels funny") or the temperature safety switch located inside the manifold that houses the electrical heating element.

The element itself looks almost unused (shiny, still). It is not electrically open, due to overheating or some such, but I have no idea what the resistance should be. I measures seven hundred ohms, with one end disconnected. There is voltage on both sides of the timer and it counts down, as always. There is voltage on both sides of the temperature control. I am not sure yet how the over-temp safety works and I can't get to the door switch yet. I have to take the fucking thing apart more.

 

[Icequeen]

For the moment, I'm bitchin' about appliances in general ... but, one in particular.


Our laundry dryer quit working tonight while my wife was doing some urgent catching up. She had some of her work uniforms and a huge load of undie-things all wet when it stopped.

The next half hour was all about a panic attack (hormonal, I might guess and if she sees this               .......        then,   -  seriously!) and how this can't happen, NOW!! This just can't fucking happen!

... but it did and there was nothing I could see wrong that I could fix. It seems obvious that some form of safety attachment, which safeguards us from ourselves and our dangerous laundry, has malfunctioned, but it's fucking SUNDAY NIGHT!!  It can't be fixed right now!!


I went into the top storage areas of the garage and grabbed two big-heavy-assed background stands from the old photography days and a crossbar, whic I erected next to the heat vent in the dining room. Now we have twelve feet of indoor "line" to hang up things that can go on hangers.
I then found some old (brand new, but I've had it for a while)  garden tie rope and strung it across the kitchen, between the cabinet handles to fashion a makeshift indoor (It is still many degrees below freezing outside - that's not an option!) clothesline, four lines across the kitchen! FFS!!

She's calmer, I'm calmer, everyone is calmer and there is underwear and t-shirts and socks and thermals hanging in the kitchen.





... best I could think of at the time.

Electric or gas?  Could be a belt they go every few years.  With that you'd get heat but no spin.   Both gas and electric ones have sensors so they don't over heat.  If electric it could also be the heating element gas it could be a dirty nossel on the burner

Thanks, but it's not the belt or the timer. I'm pretty sure there is a problem with either the door safety switch (which actually "feels funny") or the temperature safety switch located inside the manifold that houses the electrical heating element.

The element itself looks almost unused (shiny, still). It is not electrically open, due to overheating or some such, but I have no idea what the resistance should be. I measures seven hundred ohms, with one end disconnected. There is voltage on both sides of the timer and it counts down, as always. There is voltage on both sides of the temperature control. I am not sure yet how the over-temp safety works and I can't get to the door switch yet. I have to take the fucking thing apart more.

 

The element sounds fine, if it's not coming on at all I would suspect the door switch, they go bad alot. You should get an ohms reading at both terminals of the thermostats, fuse, and the switch (activate the switch, open nothing, closed you should get a reading).

This site helps me out frequently, because I tend to forget shit alot anymore. (Fried too many brian cells in my younger days and it's catching up with me.)

http://fixitnow.com/appliance-repair-faq/index.html

[Callaway]

That looks like a great website, Icequeen.

I see now why it takes my clothes longer to dry here than it did in the last place we lived.

Thanks.

[renaeden]

I came off Lexapro sooooooooo slowly, just how the doctor told me to and I am still getting withdrawal brain zaps and dizziness.

[Phlexor]

sunscreen feels yucky, like a constant hell. And yes, I know it's needed.

And I've yet to find the hat that has adequate coverage from the sun and also says "me".

Yeah, you're right. Sunburn's just a lot cooler.

Staying indoors is better.

True.

I've been getting myself stacks of indoor time! WIN!

[vodz]

I came off Lexapro sooooooooo slowly, just how the doctor told me to and I am still getting withdrawal brain zaps and dizziness.

Sounds like it may be better to go "cold turkey" and endure a shorter withdrawal period, get it over and done with.

I'm thinking that mirtazapine isn't for me and can't be effed coming off it slowly.

Also I will probably take some ayahuasca (dimethyltryptamine) this weekend. 
It contains an MAOI and I think it has caused me hyper-tension in the past... probably due to having ingested MDMA though, don't think I was taking mirtazapine at the time.

[renaeden]

MAOIs never go with other antidepressants! Has no one told you? You risk becoming really sick.

How long did you give the mirtazepine? Sometimes it takes weeks before any difference is noticed.

I am no longer taking Lexapro. I thought of going back to taking a few mgs of it but that will probably just make the whole process longer. Am taking Cymbalta now and that seems to be a good medication so far.