We bought a new washer last night (top-loading, agitator-less HE washer), and it gets delivered in a week. The old washer still works, but is very, very noisy and possibly possessed by a demon. So I did laundry today.

I am now Googling laundromats. Balls. The one load I put in the washer did in fact wash and rinse, but the spin cycle has given up the ghost. So I wrung that load (t-shirts, socks, and oh my god yoga pants) out by hand into the washtub and threw it in the dryer, where it will probably take 10 hours to dry. Maybe 20. (Okay, probably 90 minutes, but hyperbole is more fun.)

All I really need to wash still is my load of stuff I hang up -- sweaters, jeans, etc. So I only need to do one load of wash at the laundromat, but damn, is it going to not be fun lugging home a load of wet (but, one presumes, at least spin-cycled) laundry.

Modern problems, I haz them.

Ginger, that is really terrible. I'm angry on your behalf, but also angry at our health care system in general.

I think you've crossed threads, TB.

PiBaby pictures make everything better. Gosh, that is one happy kid!

PiBaby is so wonderfully happy. Makes me smile to look at pictures.

Beautiful wee man, Nilly! Nice to see you here.

Ah, Company Values section of the annual self-appraisal, my old nemesis. We meet again.

PiBaby has Nilly's smile and enthusiasm.

What are you appraising under Company Values, Jessica? How they suck?

What are you appraising under Company Values, Jessica? How they suck?

How well did I align myself with them in the 2011-12 fiscal year. One of these years I'm just going to copy-paste from Bellwether and be done with it.

[edit: Rating myself in the drop-down menus is easy enough, it's the comments boxes that are killing me.]

I am at the laundromat, where they have free wifi, paid tanning, a Ms. Pac-Man game, and are playing music I can only think of as The Quiet Storm. I'm kind of digging the vibe here. Ooooh! Ashford and Simpson just came on! Solid As A Rock, baby!