General

citizen_zane wrote:
They look comfortable.

I hate socks over the calf. I don't even like them over the ankle. Even in the winter I usually wear low cut socks.

bill wrote:

That's all I wear. They have always lasted way longer than any other socks I've owned. Whenever I do eventually get holes in them, they've always replaced them for free, so I've been a very happy customer.

Yeah, they are expensive, but worth it. Cotton socks suck in comparison,

KCPenguins wrote:
What is it that you don't like? The constricting feeling?

Darn Tough are the most amazing socks ever ... The lifetime warranty is insane - I've used it at least 20 times. I can never go back to anything else.

nonamesleft wrote:


I guess. I don't care for any tight fitting clothes.

I’ve got a lot of random thoughts.

-Laundry needs to be switched over. But I don’t want to.
-My Facebook reels are basically all clips from the old and new version of Whose Line is it Anyway?, and it’s glorious.
-I’ve made 4 deals this year on this site. I’m thankful for them, and bill needs to make me an honorary top trader this year.
-I need to poop.
-I started a form of therapy last night through a thing at work. It’s free to me, and since it’s so new I don’t know if it’s had time to do anything. I had a minor meltdown last Tuesday because someone was being a stupid ass. Apparently you can’t call someone a stupid ass. The therapy thing is called TalkSpace. Maybe choosing better words would be been beneficial, but no regrets.
-I’ve lost almost 100 lbs. since March or so. I got diagnosed diabetic at the end of May and I’ve been making better, but probably not the best, choices. I got a lot of advice from a fellow TZ’er that proved to be invaluable and I still reference it from time to time.
-I have the Princess Bride in 4K, Blu-Ray, DVD and digital. It’s the best movie ever made. Everyone should have seen it by now.
-Needing to poop is basically an emergency situation now. Byeeeeee.

My drying machine door keeps popping open mid operation. Every now and then clothes fall out onto the floor. More often than not however the door is still shut but the clothes tapped the door hard enough to trigger the switch that makes it think it's been opened. Either way the machine stopped and I have to come back to press the button to start the machine..

This is really annoying bc it ends up taking a lot longer to dry my clothes than it normally would. I can't just set it and come back when they're finished drying, I have to return to the machine multiple times, and bc I'm using my phone or w/e in the meantime there is a lot of time wasted where the machine is not running and I didn't come back to check on it yet.

Is there is a hack for this? I've actually been jamming snow shovel against the door but it helps only somewhat. The shovel is not heavy enough or doesn't have enough traction on the floor.

The washing machine has a knob that fastens the door shut, if only the drying machine had this as well...

BucketofJustice wrote:

Great job!

Thanks John! It is 100% making the best of a bad situation, but there are some silver linings. This is one of those linings.

Hell yeah congrats on the weight loss.

And yeah Princess Bride rules.

BucketofJustice wrote:
It sounds irritating that when someone at work is acting like a complete >'fill in with your choice of words'< that you have to "acceptably" call them out on it. Why can't things like this be normal? If someone is acting like a _, didn't they practically ask to be told off? Ugh.

Whose Line is it anyway? Wow. Haven't watched that in ages. Pretty entertaining.

And yeah, Princess Bride is great. Haven't seen it in a while.

@egg

Are the door hinges loose, or is it the latch that's not catching onto the piece anymore?

Hinges are fine. It's the latch. It's like it's barely keeping on. It feels secure when you close it and you can feel the latch grabbing the door when you do. So I always assume there is nothing wrong with it, but apparently that's not enough to withstand 30+ minutes of clothes tumbling around inside.

And when I put it that way, it really ought not to be that way. So there is obviously something wrong with it. Maybe a repair or part replacement is possible.

It's kind of like a fridge door w barely any suction. Comes right open. Doesn't seem like a big issue, until one day you think it was left slightly open and nobody noticed.

egg wrote:
Duct tape? Not a convenient fix, because you'd need to do it each time, but maybe it would hold?

nonamesleft wrote:

I had considered mailing tape but am afraid of damaging the enamel on the door or the machine. But I am still considering it. I'm mad as hell about this and something needs to be done.

I should maybe try to find the mechanism in the door and poke around, maybe I can pop something in place. But maybe there is none and it's just magnets holding the door closed. Would explain why it doesn't stay closed very well, and why there isn't really any sound it makes when it closes, just a gentle thump when the door presses against the machine. you don't hear any mechanism inside, like a lock or a latch.

Oh, that reminds me. I had the idea to put velcro mounts on the door. But you gave me another idea-- I can stick magnets to the door. Either should be easy to find at a hardware store.
Although, this would technically increase the gap between the door and the machine and therefore might cause the door sensor to trigger even more easily. It depends. We'll see!

Look for the latching mechanism. If you google the make/model of the dryer and "door latch" you can likely find a place to buy it and a YouTube video on how to replace it.

YouTube is very helpful for troubleshooting and fixing most things. Find a video or three, read for positive comments, and watch the best one. Decide if you can take that on.

egg wrote:
I was going to mention velcro, but your magnet idea is even better. Maybe some of those very strong neodymium magnets?

Or if you want an actual fix, maybe what @KCPenguins said, to look up some videos.

i like KCPenquins recommendations. I replaced my water heater by myself after going to you tube university.

loztdogs wrote:


I've done a ton of dyi from YouTube, just make sure to read the comments before proceeding unless you already know enough about the basics to sniff out BS. Don't go beyond your comfort level, but learn enough to sniff out scammer contractors.

KCPenguins wrote:

Absolutely! I fall into the category of, I know enough to be dangerous already. I remodeled three bedrooms and a bathroom at my old house. Had to re-texture a ceiling after removing popcorn. Never did it before but you tube was super helpful.

wow, hate to laugh, but I did ...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jack-blakeslee-ohio...

"Rather, he claimed he simply had a habit of putting his feces in the containers and randomly tossing them from his vehicle as a prank. He estimated that he did this at least 10 times a year, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Blakeslee said the prank was a way to “blow off steam,” and that he enjoyed imagining the “look of surprise” on people’s faces when they discovered his creations."

MrBean wrote:
Bizarre. But kind of funny. Made me smirk. Thanks for that. Been having not such a great day. Gave me a slight humor boost.

"The court suspended Blakeslee for one year, with six months stayed, for the gross act, and said his conduct “adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law.”

Surveillance video shows Blakeslee driving by the parking lot, slowing down, turning around and passing it a second time. He then tosses the poopy can out of his car and drives off to the courthouse.

A witness saw Blakeslee throw the can and discovered its contents. She filed a report with Cambridge police.

Blakeslee eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and littering, and paid $248 in fines and court costs, according to Court News Ohio.

At his disciplinary hearing this week, Blakeslee denied that he intentionally chose the center as the target for his poop-filled Pringles can."

image

loztdogs wrote:

I thought I knew more than enough to not be dangerous today, and I still managed to have problems. I needed to replace the power window switch on my 2003 Suzuki. My stepfather was a mechanic and he taught me a lot about all sorts of repairs to cars. I looked at a YouTube video and this repair should have been an extremely simple exchange of switch assemblies and wire harness connections. I couldn't find my exact vehicle in the salvage yard, however the switches on a 2006 looked identical although the assembly was a different size. The YT video showed putting a flat lever under the front of the switch assembly to push back the spring to pop the assembly out. When it came out, there was a spring on the front and a fragile clip on the back. I also saw that the switches were in cartridges that could be easily removed from the assembly. When I put the lever under the front end of the assembly in my car, I heard something break. Even though the YouTube video showed the spring on the front, on my car it was on the back. I had broken the fragile plastic clip at the front. I don't recall if the YT video said it was specific to my 2003, but clearly the YTer must have been demonstrating with a different year vehicle. I easily exchanged the switch cartridges and reinstalled the assembly in my car, but now when I pull up on the switch to close the window, the entire assembly comes up out of the door. I may have to glue it down or something.

I miss the 90s. Things seemed calmer then than they are now. These days, alot of people are on edge. There's a certain calmness/simplicity that was around in the 90s that simply isn't here now.

@egg Maybe this diy will help with your dryer latch issue:

https://youtu.be/za8cO2XAmec?feature=shared

nonamesleft wrote:

100% agree. Late 80s early 90s all day.

Everyone break out the good wine tonight.

loztdogs wrote:
You like that time because it is within your life's memory. Almost everyone's early days were "the good old days". Your grandparents will probably tell you the 50s were the best time of their lives.

I heard a quote the other day that kind of sums up the experience. This is a paraphrase: "None of us is living in the world we were prepared to live in."

The world moves faster every year. New inventions save time, but then you don't have that time to rest and relax because you are expected to do more.

An article in our local paper this summer said that one of the hottest business opportunities of the last few years is the car wash. This seems counterintuitive given how the media also states that most people are complaining about high inflation and seem to believe that "the economy" is bad. One would think that paying to have a clean vehicle would be one of the first expenses people would cut, but our area has seen several new car washes open in the last few years.

I wish we saw more car washes here. The only thing we are getting is vape shops. Seriously how many vape shops can a small city really support?

Tony wrote:
You make good points.

I will say though that there's a certain non calmness/craziness currently around that simply wasn't there in the 90s. And I don't think it has to do with "the good old days" being memorable. Sure there were some nutty stuff in the 90s too, but I feel that there's a certain lack of calm these days/this decade, as if there's a lot of tension in the world.

benstylus wrote:


Yeah. Those vape shops keep popping up. There was this local newsstand that's been around for a long time. They closed. What's there now? A smoke shop. Less than 2 blocks away from there, another one opened. And on the same block, across the street, yet another one.

Foxhack wrote:
What kind of wine do you like?

nonamesleft wrote:

There always has been, most people were just more shielded from it when they were kids.

Lots of adults in the 90s were scared that Pokemon and Magic the Gathering were tools of Satan, and that violent video games were poisoning kids minds and turning them into future real life murderers.

Lots of adults in the 70s and 80s believed the same things about Dungeons and Dragons, and some were even convinced that a pack of regular playing cards or a pair of dice would lead to irrevocable gambling habits and ruination of your soul.

In the 50s and 60s, my understanding is that commies were hiding everywhere, constantly trying to infiltrate American society and and they were something to be fought and feared.

Ask your parents what caused them the most worries when you were growing up, and I bet the answer will be pretty similar... what kind of world were you (and your siblings if you have any) growing up in?

What bothers me is the fact that my city has four big Wal-Mart centers, not to mention two little Wal-Mart grocery stores, yet only has two post offices. Two for a city with nearly 160,000 people!

benstylus wrote:
Great points. I guess every generation has their set of concerns.

bill wrote:
That's sad. If a place has a kiosk, it should be user friendly. I don't understand why some of these self service machines are not intuitive. What's funny though, is the maker of that machine probably thought it made perfect sense.

bill wrote:

Weed shops are legal here now, so there are a ton of them popping up all over. It's wild. Almost all of them paint the outside of the building black. Like, I saw two businesses that were empty that suddenly were painted black and my wife and I were like "Looks like two more weed shops." Sure enough -- the signs went up soon after!


A few years ago we gave all of our employees a 1-year unlimited car wash subscription for Mr. Carwash. Most of them (including me) seem to like it. We've renewed it every year since. 👍

I definitely go much more often now that it is free/unlimited. I used to use a manual thing where you put quarters in still.. But now it is all auto since it is free!

We definitely need more tire shops and mattress stores... Can never have enough of those.