76 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-21-12”

  2. Good morning everyone. I had fun last night. Mr. P had brought over a box with some things in it for me to go through. I found his baby cup, each of his son’s baby cups, his dad’s and what I am supposing was his grandfather’s from 1893. I also disovered a full set of sterling in the Heiress pattern. I have six spoons and six forks that I cannot find the patterns on them. (I love Replacements dot com). A couple of things to think about.
    First he is glad he showed me all of this AFTER I agreed to marry him.
    Second, he is glad he didn’t know the value of what he had while he was a single dad, raising his boys. He said there were some times he might have sold it to make ends meet.
    Third, he joked and asked since he was bringing the family silver into the marriage what was I bringing? I assured him there was great value in a woman who recognized a gumbo spoon from a regular soup spoon!
    Nerdy Kim kicked in with some of the silver markings. One set of spoons were made by a company that was in business from 1863-1922
    I even identified a funky set of barware glasses from the 1950’s.
    And finally I will ask you just how many men you know of that would drag all of this plus an antique punch bowl and all 12 cups through numerous moves in the Navy?

    Michelle, perhaps this will make you laugh. When I started unpacking some of it, the glass was individually wrapped in bubble wrap and packed in with crumpled craft paper. I asked who packed it. He did! He said after the first time the military packed it and broke some pieces and said “oops, sorry” he started packing it himself.

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  3. Only 7:00 and I’ve already seen the comics. Still lots more to do.
    Tammy, re: Random’s comments about homosexuals.
    Some people think that opposition to redefining marriage is severe persecution.

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  4. Kim, I prayed for Kathleen. But then, a problem occurred in my mind. If Kathleen gets a heart, someone has to lose one. Something I didn’t want to deal with. But later, it occurred to me to just let God work that out.
    Much of my life, I spent giving God scenarios about he could answer prayers.
    One day, it occurred to Chas. He never used my suggestions one time.
    Not once. Yet it worked out.

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  5. I am just full of bad news. Several days ago I told you about the young (34) year old woman with cancer. I told you they had done surgery and removed several organs but do not think they got it all.
    Last night on Facebook someone posted “her view” from her hospital room of the candlelight prayer vigil her church did in the parking lot. How sweet and loving is that?

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  6. I’m off work today to prepare (lunch for 140 people) for a women’s retreat at church tomorrow. We are blessed to have Sharon Betters as our speaker.

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  7. Good Morning! Considering the quote for today, not one person has been telling me how young I look. I suppose I am suppose to be thankful for that? Tanks, AJ!

    It’s funny to think that when I was in my late 30s or early 40s that a grocery clerk asked if I was suppose to receive the senior discount. I never understood that one. But when I was in my 20s my brother had a young lady he was dating for lunch with our family and she thought I was still in highschool. So from those two scenarios it looks like I did most of my aging between 20 and 40. LOL

    I did notice that when my childless friend came to visit after I had my son that though we are about a month apart in age I seemed to have advanced in age while she had not. I always remembered someone telling me that having a child takes a lot out of a woman. They meant more than just the baby. But then I see some of the women who have large families, mostly homeschooling moms, who look like they have never given birth. Hmmm…what is their secret?

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  8. Good morning everyone. Today. I have a lot to do to get ready for the move. For those of you praying for my missionary friend in Japan, Barbara Dunbar and her mother. Her mom is still bleeding internally and Barbara is on an emotional roller coaster.

    I will have to talk to ATT today about disconnecting the service at the apartment and getting internet set up at the new home. Since, I plan on monitoring the alarm system in the home, I have to have a phone line. Yuck, but if I do not have a physical phone on it, I figure, I would not have to put up with goofy solicitation calls.

    Got to go. Love you guys.

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  9. Good morning everyone. Husband is away on a dove hunting trip. It’s work related, but fun for him, too, as one of his best friends is joining him on the trip. My best friend is coming over tomorrow with her daughter to spend the night. So, it will be a great girls weekend!

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  10. Good morning! Oldest daughter is coming home today to celebrate my youngest daughter’s 5th birthday. The little one woke up at 2:30 this morning thinking it was time to start the day — pretty excited about her birthday! Well, we told her it wasn’t quite time, so off she went back to bed, and then Mom couldn’t sleep. 😉

    Oh, well, I was awake at little one’s actual birth time (3:10 a.m.), so that was kind of neat reminiscing about birthing my youngest at exactly that time five years earlier.

    Have yourselves a beautiful day, everyone. May God bless you in ways you never imagined. 🙂

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  12. Nobody ever comments on how young I look. Some have said I’m getting along well for my age. That part is true.
    A woman at the Y this morning said I had a handsome smile.
    Eighty two year it took for someone to say I was handsome. 🙂
    She was just looking for something nice to say.
    Sometimes you appreciate the thought even if you know it’s a lie.

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  14. MIM, I love our dishwasher. I am the dishwasher, LOL! Sorry, I could not resist the invitiation. I like liquid dishwasher detergent. I am a really old model, so old I don’t even have a number!

    Seriously, I just asked our office person who knows appliances and she said she has a five year old Kitchen Aid that they are totally pleased with. I told her others had problems with that make. She said she had heard of problems with Kenmore and Whirlpool. She said some states have regulations about the content of the chemicals in the dishwasher cleaning products. She said some people travel out of state to get products they can’t get in their state. We do not have that situation in Georgia. She uses the powder by Cascade and the Jet Dri product. She said when she replaced her d/w that she decided to get the stainless steel interior rather than the other type interior. Later i will see if she can look on the internet to see if they are still selling the model she bought. Since she is not at home she can’t check the model number on the machine.

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  15. I am sorry but I think my office mate said it was GE that some people have problems with and not Whirlpool. I believe she said that Kenmore, Whirlpool and Kitchen Aid all come from the same place with Kenmore being the lowest level and Kitchen Aid being the top level.

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  19. MIM,
    Not sure if I LOVE our dishwasher, but I certainly don’t hate it. It’s a Kenmore (sorry, the manual is at home so I don’t know the model) and I know it has a stainless steel interior and is Energy Star. I think it’s about five years old. I remember seeing bad reviews about its performance a year or so ago when I needed to replace the detergent dispenser door, but I think it does pretty well. My main complaint is that to replace the dispenser door (which would have cost a couple dollars), I was required to buy an entire dispenser assembly which cost about fifty dollars. However, the part was easy to replace and has worked well since.

    IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: I think my wife and I like the dishwasher so much because we got a really good deal on it.

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  20. My model # is GU1200XTLB0 . I believe any of the Gold models of the Whirlpool were recommended for the price range.

    I was looking for a new clock/radio/alarm, since mine failed me a couple of times recently. Twice I was about to purchase one and then for different reasons decided to wait. A few days ago, I accidently set the alarm and it went off in the evening. That was when I realized I had the regular time set on PM instead of AM, which was why the alarm never went off in the AM! I was glad I hadn’t bothered buying a new one.

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  21. Good Morning, Y’all!

    Hope you all have a blessed day. Finally getting my home internet back today. A phone service guy damaged our line. After two long annoying troubleshooting calls and waiting for a replacement modem they figured out that they did it themselves… how efficient.

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  22. Kim is getting married? How many days have I been away?

    I have heard it is poor etiquette to congratulate someone on their engagement (and I wouldn’t want Kim to think I wasn’t raised properly!), but the internet says it’s OK to offer one’s best wishes. The internet also said congratulating the bride on her engagement was akin to saying she’d been hunting for a man and caught one. But perhaps that discussion should be saved for another day.

    Best wishes, Kim!

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  23. kathaleena, I’ve been using my cell phone as an alarm. It works great. You can program it for the whole week and never have to worry about setting it each night. Check yours to see if it has that function.

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  24. Scott R , It is best wishes to the bride to be, congratulations to the groom to be. The usumption is that the man has been searching and the woman has just been sitting around waiting to be found, not that she was out husband hunting.

    I wasn’t husband hunting. I was merely looking for someone to share a nice meal with every now and then, perhaps someone to go see a movie with me so I didn’t have to go everywhere alone.

    I am also gaining three sons and I didn’t have to get fat, go through labor and delivery, middle of the night feedings, and potty training. As an added bonus I will also get a grandson sometime in November—THAT is cracking a lot of my friends up.

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  25. I still have most of my hair, so I suppose some young woman (such as my wife, who is only 65, might think I am young. But she knows better. As does the driver who almost smashed into to me last night because of my careless and impetuous driving.

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  26. Yesterday, at 1:16 am (a little late, but that’s your affair), the sensible and perceptive Tammy said I’m shocked. In all your years on WMB, just how many Christians were into “punitive intolerance” toward homosexuals? One? Two? I was there as long as you (and longer) and that would probably be the greatest number I could count.

    For shame! To let your presuppositions spoil your facts.

    I am indeed shamed. I am indeed corrected. (Though not very much.)

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  27. I’m thinking about maybe doing a daily prayer thread. I don’t like that if it’s a weekly thing, it drops off the page to archives before the end of the week. I also think it’s important, and prayer is something we do daily anyway, so why not reflect that with a daily post?

    I’d like your input folks, what do you think?

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  28. At 1:30, Tanny, very understandably said Tonight, I got very stressed out fighting a ceiling lamp. . A couple of days ago my wife and fought a sliding closet door (a closet where our washer and driver cohabit — we must get around to having them get married one of these days) which came off its tracks. (Please refrain from comments bout me going off the rails.) Anyway my wife and I spent an hour getting the door back on its tracks. Now we have to be very ginger when we slide that door. Please don’t tell my wife about ginger. Thank you for your discretion.

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  30. Good morning all.

    Make It Man: We have a Kitchen Aide model KUDS30IXBT6 and we are very happy with it. It’s extremely quiet and we are very satisfied with it’s cleaning abilities. We use the Jet Dri as recommended.

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  31. I’ve been very happy with my Kenmore dishwasher (an energy star model, 8575287) which I’ve had for a few years now. I did have one service call, but turns out I wasn’t punching all the buttons I was supposed to be punching. (duh).

    I believe I purchased it based on Consumer Reports reviews at the time — those are very helpful, though don’t always provide a slam-dunk choice. I remember buying a microwave they highly recommended some years ago that was in for repairs twice within the first year.

    I finally dumped it (later I read consumer reviews, added one of my own, all complaining about the exact same problem I’d had with the microwave). The whole experience made me realize that using Consumer Reports could definitely help you make decisions on things, but it wouldn’t always be the perfect solution.

    Back to the dishwasher — it wasn’t rated as one of the really quiet ones, although I think it’s a lot quieter than the one — a Hotpoint? — that was in here already when I bought the house. But noise wasn’t a big factor for me as I live a pretty simple life and it’s not likely to disrupt a big formal dinner party any time soon.

    It gets the dishes sparkling clean.

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  33. At 6:30 a.m., a very sane, sensible person said, Yes, Tammy, most sane, sensible persons over time understood that the empirical world is limited and that beyond it is a very real transcendent deity [or deities in the case of plural theists] who rules the cosmos.

    Christians, in addition, have the revelation of the Bible and of Christ as to God and His moral law.

    Those who believe that all we have is an empirical material world are limited and not a little mad with their view, however much they protest otherwise in a moralistic and fundamentalist way.

    One of my brothers has been diagnosed as suffering from bi-polar illness and schizophrenia. Perhaps he is a “little mad?” Years ago, said brother suffered a heart attack. His wife tells me as he was on his (not yet death bead) he became a religious believer. So I guess he is only a “little mad.” I guess that makes me a “lot mad.” However, I am not angry.

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  34. I asked a while back about experiences where you were close to death. I will take a bit of a break (so sensible people can post comments) and then I will tell you about the close to a dozen times (not counting last night) when Someone or Something almost took me out.

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  35. Agree, daily would be good, I tend to lose track of the thread unfortunately.

    The other plus about the dishwasher I bought was that it was modestly priced; maybe not the cheapest on the market, but definitely far below some of the models I saw advertised. I was able to get by without some of the fancier features like the stainless tub and special racks for the good china. 🙂

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  37. I don’t like bragging about my looks, but if the light is sort of dim, and if there is a heavy mist (or better yet one of those thick, choking fogs that mariners on the Outer Banks dread, when you can’t make out the needle on the compass on the binnacle, even with your eyeballs directly plastered on the compass face), and if the person doing the looking is having significant trouble with cataracts, and has lost their spectacles, or, better yet, if said person has a paint bucket securely stuck on their head, and if the angle is just right, and the distance is great enough, and if I have not had a (recent) serious medical catastrophe while improperly using the electronic nose-hair remover earlier in the day, which happens more than you would think, I can look positively fetching.

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  39. Yes, AJ, please do a daily prayer thread. I do have a family that really needs your prayers.
    The mother of 4 children died after an accident on vacation in Ruidoso, NM.

    http://www.ruidosonews.com/ci_21592794/fatal-golf-cart-accident-report-released?source=most_viewed

    http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?n=jennifer-crump-rowin-jennie&pid=159992382#.UFvAZP-zJxk.facebook

    My daughter ran on this accident last weekend. She said it was so sad as they did not know how to notify any family that the accident had occurred. Police had to have one of the lesser injured children show them the house they were staying at. The children had to flag down a passerby to call 911. The dad called my daughter on Wednesday to find out just what the children saw, so that he could help them cope with this loss. My heart breaks for all.

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  40. Yes, Kbells, I know people use their cell phone for an alarm. I do have another alarm near my bed. I just hate to wake up to an alarm. I want music, preferably on a very low volume. Most of the new devices coming out have a combo-Ipod unit. My husband does have an Ipod, but I want to hear the time and weather with the music. So glad I found out my old reliable alarm radio is still working. : )

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  41. Makeitman, I can’t say whether our dishwasher works well or not since we’ve never hooked it up. (I bought it used from someone who was remodeling the kitchen, so that someday when we sell the house we’ll have a nice dishwasher in the spot made for it instead of an old broken one.) But one thing I definitely don’t like about it is that I can’t find the model number (I wanted to go online and find a user manual for it). If it has one on it, it must be on the bottom somewhere.

    So my advice is, don’t buy a model if you don’t know what model it is.

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  42. I think we need……

    A Poll!!!

    🙄

    Just kidding. I’ll start a daily prayer thread tomorrow as well. Thanks.

    Allen

    Oh, and Random,

    “Aj, say a little prayer for me.”

    Many of us already do and will continue to. And we’ll continue to whether you like it or not, so you may as well just get used to it.

    🙂

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  44. MakeitMan,

    I have a Bosch dishwasher that we’ve had for about 7 years. We chose it because we heard it’s very quiet and it works well, and both of those things are true. But only after I started adding phosphates to the dishwasher along with the phosphate-free detergent and the Jet Dry. I noticed that the Jet Dry needs refilling way way less frequently now that I use the phosphates, too. I don’t know the model number and I’m sure they sell different models now. But we didn’t get the one with all the bells and whistles.

    I think another reason we chose it is because the controls are inside the door. We have a wooden panel that matches our cabinets on the dishwasher and on our Sub Zero fridge. So we couldn’t have a model that had controls on the outside.

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  45. Kim,

    I didn’t know I was insulting you by offering congratulations last week. Sorry about that. I don’t remember if I’ve ever heard the thing about best wishes for the bride, although it does sound vaguely familiar. I just figure that congratulations are offered to for happy news. I don’t see how it necessarily implies striving on the part of the one being congratulated. Anyway, Best Wishes!

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  47. RKessler,

    Wow, what a tragic story. I’m trying to make sense of the idea of having a 5-year-old driving the cart. How awful for him to have to live with this for the rest of his life! I pray he won’t be burdened by thinking this is his fault.

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  48. Nice article Donna. Our club has 79 members, many of whom are women. We’ve had a woman president. Some of the older members remember when meetings were more raucous. (Anyone wearing a tie got it cut off. Some would wear an old tie just for the attention.) Women are a civilizing influence wherever they are.

    I once mentioned to a female coworker that a bunch of men might be talking, but if a single woman showed up, the tenor of the conversation changes.
    She said the same things happen when women are talking among themselves; the presence of a man, any man, upgrades the conversation.

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  49. Ree, that was my thought exactly! He might have thought it would be fun to drive it, but someone older and wider should have vetoed that thought in a hurry. And a five-year-old CAN’T process that sort of thing of “it wasn’t my fault,” nor will he ever forget his last memories of his mom.

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  50. Although I am not particularly brave and not particularly adventurous, I have almost died (or at least seriously injured) close to a dozen times. Isn’t this true of everyone? I have not kept serious records, so the dates are approximate and the locations a bit vague, but basically all of the following are true..

    1954. California high desert road. Crash/accident with possible smashed skull. Riding with cowboy uncles-in-law to their ranch near Hemet in their old jalopy. No seat belts in those ancient times. Passenger door falls off car (with me sitting next to it). Uncle Dick’s lightning-fast cowboy reflexes cause him to grab me before I bounce on pavement. (#1)

    1959. Woods behind rented house hear Spring Valley, NY. Bullet from careless hunter just missed my head. I was out by stream shooting frogs with slingshot. Heard a bullet whiz by my head. (#2)

    1962. Berkeley, Oakland, CA. On streets, in danger from thugs roaming around. When I first went to college, I was very immature, so I promptly flunked out. Became briefly homeless. Street thugs thought about beating me up for amusement. Apparently decided, “No worth the bother.” (#3)

    1964. Chevrolet plant, Los Angeles (Van Nuys), CA. Almost smashed by huge bin of auto parts. After starting academic career again I got a summer job working on assembly line at Chevrolet plant. (Got this job because I passed a calculus class and I also passed up opportunity to go into GM management, but that’s another story.) Half the time I stood at worktable attaching pointless clips to pointless chrome decorative doodads; half the time I was about ten yards away at moving assembly line putting bolts into bumpers. (If a bumper fell off your 1984 Chevrolet Impala bumper, it’s my fault. So sue me. Statue of limitations.) Anyway by luck or providence I was at the assembly line, bolt in hand, when I hear a huge crash behind me. Careless fork lift driver had stacked a huge bin of auto parts carelessly. The bin fell on my work table where I might have been standing with no helmet or hard hat. Skull might have been crushed. (#4)

    1968. Hoh River forest, Washington state peninsula. Almost trapped by forest fire. After I finally graduated from college, I go a job working with “at risk” youth in Lyndon Johnson-era anti-poverty program. Took some young people camping in forested area on Hoh river. One of the young punks threw a cigarette into some driftwood, starting a fire. The young punks would not help put out the fire. Almost got out of control, possibly trapping all of us in a forest fire. (#5)

    1970. Seattle Washington (Rainier Beach High School and Ingraham High School). Almost victim of mini-race riot that almost happened. I worked in multi-racial school with many gang members, young prostitutes, and other unsavory adolescents. Actually school was much more peaceful than most people in Seattle thought, because most kids avoided fights as “too much trouble” and most knew each other well enough to make “allowances.” One night I helped supervise a basketball game with preppy mostly white school. Insults were shouted in stands during the game. After the game I found myself the only adult in a dark parking lot with white adolescent punks and black adolescent punks exchanging insults and threats. I suspect some had knives, chains, and possibly even firearms on person or in cars. Two groups got very close to each other. Threats got louder and more intense. My efforts to calm them down and get them to leave were totally ignored. (No cell phones in those days to call for help.) Outright violence seemed seconds away, with me standing right between the two groups. Then, for mysterious reasons, the black students went to their cars and drove home. (#6)

    1999. Issaquah, Washington. Almost smashed by a very large two-trailer truck. I was driving to work at location in Issaquah, WA, in very good mood, having just found and purchased a great bargain (almost complete set of Vivaldi recordings). As I approached my usual off-ramp, I noticed helicopters overhead, police cars with lights flashing, blockiing off-ramp. As my car and other cars blocked by the sudden closure of the off-ramp tried to merge back onto busy I-90 traffic, a huge “mash-up” of vehicles occurred. Following crash probably my fault. I suddenly saw a huge truck with two trailers bearing down on me, felt a large jolt and loud crash as my car was struck by the second truck trailer. (The truck driver didn’t even know he had struck something.) My small car suffered thousands of dollars of damage. I was shaken, but not injured. A few feet closer? Who knows? (#7)

    2006. Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, WA. Close to fatal illness. As part of my final job, I went to Vashon Island. After I stopped for dinner, I noticed my throat felt a little sore. Thought I had caught a cold. Next mornng, back on Whidbey Island, my throat felt very sore. I tried to take a drink of water, could barely swallow. My wife called advice nurse. Nurse said, “Call 911. Right now.” Ambulance took me to Whidbey Island Hospital. Sirens, lights, whole nine yards. The otolaryngologist who examined me said something like, “You have some sort of lung infection. What you have is very mysterious and unusual. It’s very rare, and we usually only see it fairly small children. Depending on where your lung is infected, it may be fatal, or you may have a reasonable chance of surviving. Let’s do a CAT scan right away.” After examining the results, he said, “The news is good. I think you have a good chance of surviving. Off to the ICU, now.” After a week, where they threw the medical kitchen sink at me, including various antibiotics and steroids, and ran various tests, the released me.

    I visited the doctor (whose specialty I can’t spell without using copy and paste) for a follow-up evaluation. He asked, “Oh, what did you have?”

    I replied, “You are the doctor. I was expecting you to tell me.”

    He shrugged. “We ran various tests on you. None of them revealed anything definite about what kind of infection you had. You had something serious, and it might have killed you, but I have no idea what it was.” I decided to start a foundation to battle the “Unknown Disease, leading cause of death in America,” but in my usual ADD/HD way, I have never followed through. (Instead, I started an atheist non-church. How stupid is that?) (#8)

    2012. Whidbey Island. Leg infection. While helping my friends at their church work chopping, splitting, and donating wood for heating, I suddenly could barely stand. My neighbor/friend helped me into his truck and took me home. My wife took me to my HMO and they sent me to a nearby hospital. I was diagnosed with a serious bacterial infection, probably contracted by bacteria at my gym where I exercise getting into my system through cracks between my toes (even though the gym is very clean and sanitary). I am going to go to the gym this afternoon, but I don’t shower there any more. I probably didn’t come close to losing my life, but it’s not impossible that I might have lost my leg. While in the hospital, my roommate turned out to be a homeless man with a similar infection, except in his finger and much worse, drug-resistant type of infection. Another homeless man tried to mug him and bit the victim’s finger. Worst bacteria come from bites. So don’t let anyone bit you! Even though my infection was less life-threatening, it took three months to treat, and I still have some visible scar tissue and some occasional pain. The homeless man also told me he believes in God. So there’s always hope. For some people. (#9)

    2012 Last night. Whidbey Island. Another (almost) car crash. On my way to my atheist group, I carelessly pulled into traffic and was almost struck by another car. As I was leaving our group’s meeting (held in a meeting room at an Oak Harbor, Restaurant, another group was just entering. One woman held a guitar. As I am very inquisitive, I asked, “Oh, hi. Are you a musical group?”

    “No,” she said. “We’re actually a Bible study group.”

    “Oh, we’re an atheist group,” I said. The exchange was perfectly amiable and friendly. I think we’re making progress. After all, I woke up this morning (always a good sign), thinking I might be about to be banned. And here I am. And here you are. And the earthquake hasn’t happened yet. One day we’re alive. Another day we’re not.

    So that comes to about ten or so almost-death experiences I’ve had. Some perhaps weren’t that close. On the other hand, I’ve had some other risky experiences that didn’t quite “make the cut.” And in the long run . . . Hasn’t everyone had quite a few experiences? You never know when it’s your turn to ride in a golf cart driven by a five-year-old.

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  51. I have not had a chance to read all the posts yet, but wanted to post this link I found about WordPress. I was looking at what they offer for website creation that we might use for our small tax prep/bookkeeping business since we don’t yet have a website. I came across a video about the one who started up WordPress. If you go to this link and scroll down until you get to the video This Is Us / Matt Mullenweg, I thin you will enjoy watching it and seeing his vision and thinking about how it has enriched all of our lives here.
    http://sanklouddemo.wordpress.com/

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  53. Ree, you didn’t insult me. My best friend and her husband told me congratulation sna then said no that isn’t what you say to the bride, tell P congratulations.

    Just say you are happy for me and all will be well.

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  59. In another couple of weeks, we will have four fifteen year olds. They sure are nice people. God has blessed us beyond our imagining. Sometimes, I think about my view of Heaven, much like Randy Alcorn’s. Anyway, I believe God has gifted us here in areas He will be using in us later. When I think I am ready to go home to get a break, I realize that my view of heaven would put me in with a whole bunch of children and it sounds eternally exhausting. I am glad God has the plan and not me.

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  60. They also say you know you’re old when your friends no longer ask you to help them move . . .

    OK, I can see how it is. You want to know what appliance I own so you don’t buy one yourself Good idea!

    I have a black Kenmore dishwasher.

    I just stood on my head to catch the model nmber 665-13299K111. We’re actually pretty satisfied with it, all things considered. It’s practically silent. It’s easier to dismantle than the Bosch (won’t ever go near one again). We’re satisfied.

    My in-house engineer, for almost the first time in history, bought the extended warranty–given who he lives with that probably was a great idea–and we used it within the first six weeks.

    We’ve owned this dishwasher about six months. I still don’t like how often I have to “clean” the screen and so forth, but that’s about all they had so I’m stuck.

    I read Ree’s comments about phosphates to my same in-house engineer the other night and he laughed at her ingenuity in getting past the problem. I may investigate that myself.

    I did buy the stainless steel interior. If I had a choice, I’d probably buy an old one without all these bells and whistles, but I LOVE how quiet it is. It’s take longer to wash the dishes, however. I also like the top rack can be adjusted up and down AND it has a delay feature. With our time of service meter, we can run it in the middle of the night without supervision.

    I’m working 3/4 time now, and it’s killing me. I have no time for anything after a pretty relaxed summer. I’m going to go write my blog, now, before I’m off to a Praise and Dream night at church.

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  62. I have a dishwasher. Her name is Jatou. She can also wash clothes and mop the floor. She costs about $35 a month to run (soap not included). 😉 Bet you can’t top that! Sorry, she is a limited edition and not available any more!

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  64. I have nine dishwashers and they don’t cost a thing to run. Sometimes they get to use the GE Profile. It works well when they clean the dishes first. It may work well if they don’t but I suspect not. How am I supposed to know the model number? The live washers do a good job, some better than others but I would recommend them all. Bet I topped that, Joanne!

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  66. I have a Fridgedaire, but don’t know the model number. I never pay attention to that unless I need a part.

    Chas- Thanks for the article about the SEC. At least it doesn’t have a team like Texas hogging all the money and glory. It just has Auburn and Alabama and LSU hogging all the glory.

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  68. It was shuttle day in L.A. today, everyone was up on rooftops, on the cliffs, at Disneyland, at the observatory, on our battleship just to get a glimpse of it as it flew low overhead.

    Chas, you have a very big club. I think most of our service clubs have dwindled to a couple dozen, tops; a far cry from the days when the clubs really were the glue that held communities together in some ways. Maybe they’re still stronger in the south/midwest?

    I remember my mom instructing me about saying “Best Wishes” to the bride and “Congratulations” to the groom. I still remember that, but don’t as often strictly follow the “rule.” It’s probably more observed in the south, but out here it’s pretty much fallen by the wayside.

    For better or worse.

    No wedding pun intended.

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  69. Interesting post harkening back to our political discussion a couple days ago about media bias, this one having to do with the coverage of gay issues:

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2012/09/imagine-this-another-unbalanced-post-lgbt-piece/

    Meanwhile, Gallup posted today that distrust of the media is at an all-time high. Too many in the media dismiss these reports. The problem is with the readers, right?

    While some people do see bias where it simply doesn’t exist, there is a foundation that has led to this distrust that has gone on for decades now. And the media ignores that at its own peril.

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