My dad got up early Wednesday morning and went shopping for fridges so I didn’t have to. He ordered a new one, it’s supposed to get delivered sometime tomorrow.
In the meantime the little one is working well. In fact it’s working a little too well. My milk was starting to freeze, so I turned it down a notch.
The fridge just died.
I noticed it this morning, when my milk wasn’t quite as cold as it usually was. Probably only someone as anal-retentive about their milk being ice cold as me would have noticed. But now it’s blazingly obvious. It’s already cooled off enough that everything in the freezer has defrosted.
I can hear the compressor cycling on, then cycling back off after just a few seconds, then repeating the cycle after a couple minutes. I tried turning the thermostat down to its coldest setting in the (admittedly vain) hope that the problem would go away. Naturally it didn’t. Having conferred with the landlord (a.k.a. my dad) we’ve officially declared it dead. Now I get to get up early tomorrow and go to Home Despot, buy a new one, and hope I can figure out some way to get it home.
(Getting it home isn’t the hard part. Getting it down the stairs is the hard part.)
Getting it delivered the same day is unlikely, but professional delivery would probably be the best option, as it means somebody other than me gets to haul it down the stairs.
This is why I didn’t want to be a landlord!
As a side note, I’m glad I cheerfully ignored the advice I got to get rid of my old mini-fridge. Buying that thing has turned out to be one of the smartest decisions I ever made. I had no idea at the time.
I started cutting the sides for the jewelry box project in shop last week. I cut the front and back pieces properly, but I screwed up the side pieces.
My technique was perfect. My use of the machine was perfect. My measurements were perfect, to the point of anal retentality. I cut a perfectly-sized 3¾” piece.
I was supposed to cut a 7¾” piece.
It doesn’t matter how many times you measure if you’re measuring for the wrong target.
Today is going to be mainly a catch-up-on-sleep day, since I haven’t had a proper one of those for weeks now.
To Do
- Wood Shop Tuesday
- Take the truck in to get smogged
- Find a dentist
- More blood work
- Get latest cholestorol Rx [DONE]
- Figure out what time I want to go to Weight Watchers and do it
- Fix the bathroom door lock
- Get another piece of wood for shop
- Get called into work on my day off [DONE]
Shopping
- Hard drive enclosures
- Lawn chairs and tables for back and front
- Doorknob
- Pegboard hangers
Projects
- Fix Truck
- Look for a car that I don’t despise
Truck issues
- Fuel line leak
- Rear axle seal? (Big O claimed this when I got my brakes done)
- Accessory drive belt?? (Ditto)
- Air filter
- Install plate lights
- Put the spare tire back in its slot
As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale.
The IT Crowd
Taking the same old bullshit sitcom formula and throwing in a few geek in-jokes
doesn’t make it a ‘geek sitcom.’ It just makes it shitty television. Utterly without merit.
Score: -1
Doctor Who
The new series is good. But it’s missing something intangible that the old series had.
Can’t quite put my finger on it.
Score: 1
