Fixing things
While we were away, our washing machine broke down.
I wasn’t entirely surprised as for a while I had noticed a very faint smell of hot electronics off it, and it showed all the symptoms of a blown circuit panel. It would get half way through a wash and it would suddenly stop, and all the lights would start blinking rapidly. What was worse, it would refuse to switch off again, so I had to unplug it. And on top of that, it wouldn’t even let me open the door until I had pulled the machine out and emptied all the water out using a basin.
Fucking irritating.
Since we came back, the fucking yoke has been sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor waiting for the repair man. The only advantage to having it out there was that I could give it a swift kick each time I had to walk around it.
I hate that washing machine.
The bloke came this morning.
He took it apart and sure enough, it was the circuit panel that had blown. There was also a dead gerbil or something jamming the pump. At least I got my money’s worth out of him.
On top of all that, while the bloke was cursing at the machine, and the kitchen was knee deep in stagnant water, I got a mail from my hosting company to say that this site was causing problems.
Apparently it’s too popular and the traffic to it was affecting other sites. Hah!
They suggested that I move it, so I set about doing just that.
I went to copy the files off the old server but they weren’t there. Weird. I went to the new server, and sure enough, there were some of them, but not all. And what’s worse, the site was not accessible, not that anyone will have noticed. What’s more, each time I looked, more files appeared.
I rang Blacknight to see what the fuck was happening.
It transpired they had decided that I had enough on my plate, between randy guinea pigs, a flooded kitchen and a missus who was complaining that the coal shed was cold, so they had decided to move the site for me.
Now that is what I call service.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the washing machine is now fixed and this site is on its own little bit of web space.
Herself is still cold but doing five weeks worth of washing should warm her up?
It took a good 40 seconds for this page to load up for me! Maybe your new server is slower than the old one.
Going to headrambles.com doesn’t show this post either 😐
As Robert said….Headrambles.com isnt working all morning….And this post can only be viewed if you follow the link you sent on twitter….it also takes a minute or two to load up….Maybe you should get back on to blacknight Grandad.
Think you should have got Blacknight to fix your washing machine and the repairman to host your website…
Hi. I got right thru on the reader feed I’ve always used. Sounded like you had a great time on vacation.Sorry you came home and started having snafus right away.God awful having the washer on the blink!!(sounds like something YOU had been putting off)Perhaps the gerbil(?) is what has set Minnie into a tizzie.Just wonder if she had a lover without your knowledge & she screwed him to death,probably amidst your dirty duds,then,he was plopped into the washer w/dirty duds & clogged the thing up.I don’t think she is a lesbian,bi-sexual,maybe.What’s a girl to do?
Robert & Moose – The really strange thing is that according to my logs, traffic was quuite constant [and high] during the “down” time. Strange?
Sandra – Things always seem to go on the blink when I come back from holidays, and I’m not sating for one instant that it was my daughter’s fault, just because she was staying here. I’m not sure if it was a gerbil. It could have been a mouse or a tiny rat. It could also have been the remains of a sock, or two years collection of belly-button fluff. It was very wet and dirty grey. I wasn’t going to examine it too closely!!