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shannon_aSo we've gotten our first new appliance since we moved to Hawaii.
Our dishwasher had been flaky since we got here, often having to be reset after a power outage, sometimes having to be reset several times. And, we get brown-outs here pretty regularly. Just before we went to Oahu, I had to reset it about a dozen times before it worked, and then when we got back there'd been another power outage, and that was it.
The problem was I'm pretty sure the latching mechanism. It's this electronic crap they put in everything, rather than a physical latch, and it stopped reading that the dish washer was closed. So, that was that. Looking it up online, it's apparently a common problem for these GE dishwashers.
The dishwasher was only 2.5 years old, but I figured that repairing it would be half the cost of replacing it, so hating the waste, I did the later.
So I set to handwashing dishes for a bit more than a month, and finally decided on a new one, and it arrived on Tuesday.
Fortunately, my dad came over on Wednesday to help me get it installed. There was lots of futzing with cords and hoses that he was just more familiar with, but we also ran into a few actual problems that I wouldn't have known what to do with (like the fact that Home Depot had clearly swapped out the power cord at some point, and the new one doesn't actually fit without a little surgery).
But, given my dad's help, it was a pretty easy installation. And then we just had to haul the old one out to the appliance dump near Salt Pond. (I'm still shocked how easy it is to get rid of things with a car and with Kauai having open dumps of various sorts.)
We tested it out briefly on Wednesday, and tonight I'll run it with some actual plates from meals, and we'll see if it clears out dishes without extensive prewashing, as we hope.
Meanwhile: Designers & Dragons work continues abreast. For the last three weeks or so, I've been working on some '10s histories of Swedish companies, and oh boy, I'm tired of introducing the extra step of translating stuff and then reading mostly intelligible text. I was going to continue on through all four Swedish companies now (or recently) publishing in English, but I think at least the last is going to get saved for a future month.
Meanwhile: COVID is going crazy on Hawaii. After many weeks of 0-10 cases, and then some bad week of 20-30, we've had 100 cases a day two days a row, almost entirely on Oahu.
First up, this doesn't shock me, because when we were on Oahu no one seemed to care about wearing masks.
But, this is also apparently a result of everyone running around, having large gatherings since the 4th of July.
I wouldn't be surprised if another big lockdown is coming down, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly resisted by the population. As I said back in March: the problem with the lockdown strategy is that it's unsustainable. That's proving itself right now.
But here on Kauai, we really need to reintroduce the 14-day quarantine for inter-island travel. Because we're starting to have new cases too and ... shocker ... they're travel related.
Meanwhile: my dad and I have finally gotten back to my shelving project. We've actually got two shelves for my closet ready to go. We just have to stain, finish, and fill them, and they're done. Hoping to do the staining tomorrow. Hoping to get a bunch of comics out of boxes soon, and to think about what to do for the rest of our shelving needs.
Meanwhile: our solar panel installation is supposed to start in about a week and a half. Hoping it won't be too much of a pain in the neck for us, but I'm looking forward to that solar power. Saving $150 a month will be nice, but that's a long term thing. Not having brownouts all the time will be a big plus though. Hoping it works as advertised.
And that's life in these Hawaiian states.
Our dishwasher had been flaky since we got here, often having to be reset after a power outage, sometimes having to be reset several times. And, we get brown-outs here pretty regularly. Just before we went to Oahu, I had to reset it about a dozen times before it worked, and then when we got back there'd been another power outage, and that was it.
The problem was I'm pretty sure the latching mechanism. It's this electronic crap they put in everything, rather than a physical latch, and it stopped reading that the dish washer was closed. So, that was that. Looking it up online, it's apparently a common problem for these GE dishwashers.
The dishwasher was only 2.5 years old, but I figured that repairing it would be half the cost of replacing it, so hating the waste, I did the later.
So I set to handwashing dishes for a bit more than a month, and finally decided on a new one, and it arrived on Tuesday.
Fortunately, my dad came over on Wednesday to help me get it installed. There was lots of futzing with cords and hoses that he was just more familiar with, but we also ran into a few actual problems that I wouldn't have known what to do with (like the fact that Home Depot had clearly swapped out the power cord at some point, and the new one doesn't actually fit without a little surgery).
But, given my dad's help, it was a pretty easy installation. And then we just had to haul the old one out to the appliance dump near Salt Pond. (I'm still shocked how easy it is to get rid of things with a car and with Kauai having open dumps of various sorts.)
We tested it out briefly on Wednesday, and tonight I'll run it with some actual plates from meals, and we'll see if it clears out dishes without extensive prewashing, as we hope.
Meanwhile: Designers & Dragons work continues abreast. For the last three weeks or so, I've been working on some '10s histories of Swedish companies, and oh boy, I'm tired of introducing the extra step of translating stuff and then reading mostly intelligible text. I was going to continue on through all four Swedish companies now (or recently) publishing in English, but I think at least the last is going to get saved for a future month.
Meanwhile: COVID is going crazy on Hawaii. After many weeks of 0-10 cases, and then some bad week of 20-30, we've had 100 cases a day two days a row, almost entirely on Oahu.
First up, this doesn't shock me, because when we were on Oahu no one seemed to care about wearing masks.
But, this is also apparently a result of everyone running around, having large gatherings since the 4th of July.
I wouldn't be surprised if another big lockdown is coming down, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly resisted by the population. As I said back in March: the problem with the lockdown strategy is that it's unsustainable. That's proving itself right now.
But here on Kauai, we really need to reintroduce the 14-day quarantine for inter-island travel. Because we're starting to have new cases too and ... shocker ... they're travel related.
Meanwhile: my dad and I have finally gotten back to my shelving project. We've actually got two shelves for my closet ready to go. We just have to stain, finish, and fill them, and they're done. Hoping to do the staining tomorrow. Hoping to get a bunch of comics out of boxes soon, and to think about what to do for the rest of our shelving needs.
Meanwhile: our solar panel installation is supposed to start in about a week and a half. Hoping it won't be too much of a pain in the neck for us, but I'm looking forward to that solar power. Saving $150 a month will be nice, but that's a long term thing. Not having brownouts all the time will be a big plus though. Hoping it works as advertised.
And that's life in these Hawaiian states.