This seems to be the time to fix things in our house.
Last week, our dishwasher broke. I loaded it up, turned it on -- nothing. Some faint whining noise instead of the pump draining water out of the tub. Hmm. A repairman came out and charged us $35 to observe that it was broken -- and that it would cost $280 to fix it. Oh, did I mention that the pump was dumping water onto the subfloor? Well, we never liked the dishwasher that much anyway.
So, several days (and several dollars) later, we got our brand new dishwasher installed. The installer observed that our old dishwasher had probably been leaking water for a while. "You can really tell the floor is warped when you lie down on it. You probably don't lie down on your kitchen floor very often, but having been lying here for the last hour putting in this new dishwasher, I can really tell you that it's warped." Yay.
Next up on the home repair list: windows. We got Jake (our indoor cat) from the pound last fall, by which point it had cooled off. A couple of weeks ago, it occurred to me for the first time that we weren't going to be able to open our windows once it got hot because our windows have no screens. And Jake would love to leave our house. This was especially bad this week, as temperatures got into the 80s in Mountain View. Last night was miserable. So, next Tuesday, someone comes over to give us an estimate on replacing many of our windows with double-pane windows with screens.
(meriko: still desperately wanting that house? ;) )
Tonight, Meredith called me to say that a bookshelf in our kitchen, holding cookbooks and other things, had spontaneously fallen apart. It seems that the sides warped out enough that the shelves just collapsed. Oops. Oh well; it was cheap.
When I came home, I unlocked the door, walked in, pushed the door shut behind me -- BAM. That didn't sound right. Turn around, push the door shut again ... hmm ... it's not closing. Oh, the latch can't be pushed back into the door without turning the handle.
Sigh...
Posted by Mike at May 21, 2003 11:52 PM