Last Thursday afternoon, June 1, our side-by-side fridge/freezer began emitting a very loud hum. The following morning I checked our file and determined that yes indeed, this had happened before, in March of this year. The tech came out and cleared various internal vents back then. It worked fine after that, and because we have …
I have had a candy bar or flip phone ever since I succumbed to my first cellphone purchase in 2006 when I realized it would be useful to have one in case the car died while I was in it. Finally, today, I bought an actual smart phone. Not the six or seven hundred dollar …
A while back Library Thing made some programming changes which allowed its users to catalog their music and movie libraries. I have heretofore been keeping a spreadsheet of my CD and Vinyl music collections, but the widget I used to use to convert Excel to HTML doesn’t work with Open Office spreadsheets and it’s a …
Hey, this coffemaker lasted five-plus years before it died! That’s pretty good for this household. I bought it in January of 2012; previous ones lasted less than two years and sometimes as little as one. But why do they die mid-brew? It’s an outrage.
While the rest of the country particularly in the Southeast had much worse damage, we had our own
Ten years ago I bought an Onkyo stereo amplifier/receiver to replace the long-deceased Sansui 5500 I bought in 1973. It’s worked fine ever since, powering my turntable and my Pioneer CS-88 speakers, also bought in 1973. Last week, though, something happened. I turned the receiver on to the radio channel and got no sound. I …
Yep. That’s my age today. I don’t feel a day over 56, though. I’ve been on some of the remaining parts of that road in Arizona and in California.
If you need a new one of these things because the old one doesn’t fit your new glasses, but you didn’t buy the old one, what term would you use to search for it? I tried about four different phrases before I came up with an image sufficiently like it that I could get the …
I always worry when I’m the first guy on the block to put my bin out on the street for pickup. “Did I get the day of the week wrong? Is this the blue bin night or the green bin night?” We’ll see.
I guess the Tempur-Pedic Mattress company wasn’t kidding when it advertised limited-time-only 3-year financing deals for its products. My goodness. I just looked at the firm’s website and the mattress prices range from $1,699 to $3,699. It’s a damned good thing mine is in good shape.