Wednesday Rain and Jetlag

I rose at about 7 with my alarm and did not have coffee made. I knew Wednesday morning would be strange and I started with calling the CIC for LG and talked to them about the broken appliance, The Machine (a combo washer and dryer), had coded again with another broken vibration sensor (which I paid over $300 to have it replaced last time and then enduring a flood when they broke another part, a hose). I learned that, despite the repair being completed in August 2024, it was no longer warranted. I asked them to buy back The Machine and that I would not use it again. To my surprise, they agreed to escalate and recommend a refund. Later, I spoke with the escalation team, and they asked for the receipt to process my refund. Done after a hectic search, I found a receipt in the form of an email. They also offered to give me $200 for all the trouble of using coin laundry machines. I am waiting for this to play out and hope it comes true. It is the best LG could do is own up to the failures of the top-of-the-line machine and refund my money. I wait for their next step, but I have a case number and, though it has been too many times, I have only had good experiences with LG customer service. Waiting.

But I had no laundry baskets (Corwin forgot to return them, he said later), so I threw on clothes and drove Air VW the Gray to Target, where I located and purchased a small bottle of detergent (no dyes or so on) with Bounce and two matching laundry baskets. I returned to the house, collected the clothing (some of it soaked and pre-soaped by The Machine’s failure), and headed to the coin laundry. I had a plastic soup container where I keep my few coins (I use cards instead to get miles) and the last quarters from my previous break of The Machine.

I break a $20 in to quarters and, having learned my process from too many weeks of broken laundry, I spread my laundry in the small $3.25 machines, four with whites, socks, and undies split from shirts, pants, and colored T-shirts, that take 28 minutes to wash. They are side loaders. I pay over $2.50 each for the two dryers, and in about thirty minutes, I am done. I call over another person and gift them my remaining time.

I packed up and loaded the car and forgot a basket (I will try to retrieve it on Thursday). I put away much of the laundry and will fold it and so on later. I will move to once-a-week clothing washing while I enjoy coin laundry on Friday mornings.

I microwaved some cold KFC chicken, finished The Mummy (Brendan Fraser’s) movie I rented for a few bucks, and forgot how fun it was. After that, I boarded Air VW the Gray again and headed to McMenamins Cedar Hills. There, I tried the Mexican-style dark lager, and it was excellent. I also scheduled the Theology Pub for Thursday night.

I returned home after that, just one beer, and with the jet lag, it was enough. I stopped by the veggie place on the corner of 185th and TV Highway for some lettuce and a few other items for not much money. I returned home, started to defrost some ground beef, and heated mulling spices (thanks, Z and Dondrea) with apple cider. While not good for my sugar levels, it was warm and spicy. I get cold easily since the chemotherapy (or just getting over 60, as my oncologist would remind me, not everything bad is related to the treatments).

I relax, and Deborah and I talk a few times as she works long hours while her teaching programs start to ramp up again. I use the new spices, Bold Taco, that I bought in Michigan from Penzey’s. I had a few with some cheese and lettuce (though it was on its last legs, which explains the low price). It was good. I put on season two of Halo and did an episode. Corwin stopped by. He had some tacos and then KFC, and watched the first episode of season 2 with me (I restarted, as there is always something new to see). Halo seems better the more I watch, but season 2, at first, appeared confused to me.

I ordered the C23 book. I may be back to coding and some C; the new version cannot hurt. It was also not overpriced. I was still too tired to think clearly, so I just relaxed and tried to read some history, but soon nodded off.

I did dream, and again, with the shooting of a US citizen by an ICE agent, it was about being drafted and working for the government and invading US towns and small countries. I woke a few times but managed to sleep better.

Thanks for reading!