Time to fix the dryer for real now.
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mereilinI replaced the drum belt a couple of weeks ago and was very delighted when the dryer tumbled for the first time in six months. I did a celebratory load of whites, but when I put them into the dryer it made a funny buzzing noise that stopped after a few minutes and repeated intermittently while the clothes tumbled ... and the dryer didn't get warm.
I went back to the repair website and got instructions on how to check the fuse, which is fine. Everything else that could be causing the dryer not to heat is located behind the drum, so I've been back to using the clothesline. Today, however, the sun had barely climbed above the treeline just south of our house by 12:30 this afternoon, and there are still six more weeks until the shortest day of the year.
I fucking hate November.
Anyway, I guess I have to suck it up go and figure out if my dryer is fixable, because we sure don't have $500 to buy a new one. I suppose I could hit the laundromat for the winter, or rig up a drying apparatus on the back porch to use when there's too much snow on the ground. I'm told that many if not most people in Japan hang their clothes to dry all year. I haven't checked the weather patterns to see if this is even a reasonable comparison, but I suspect it's not.
Anyway, by the time I was done putting the wet clothes on the line today I could hardly move my frozen fingers, and I know it's at least 50 degrees out there today. It's going to get a LOT colder before it gets warmer again.
Speaking of Japan, language study continues sporadically. I'm mostly listening a lot, watching Japanese films and anime and random YouTube videos. Listening to music is helping a lot, especially when I can find the kanji lyrics. Some words I recognize when I hear them, and some I recognize when I see them, and I'm continually surprised by how much I understand. Of course I haven't seen a huge variety of subject matter in the lyrics I've seen so far, but vocabulary is vocabulary!
Okay. Time to fix the dryer.
I went back to the repair website and got instructions on how to check the fuse, which is fine. Everything else that could be causing the dryer not to heat is located behind the drum, so I've been back to using the clothesline. Today, however, the sun had barely climbed above the treeline just south of our house by 12:30 this afternoon, and there are still six more weeks until the shortest day of the year.
I fucking hate November.
Anyway, I guess I have to suck it up go and figure out if my dryer is fixable, because we sure don't have $500 to buy a new one. I suppose I could hit the laundromat for the winter, or rig up a drying apparatus on the back porch to use when there's too much snow on the ground. I'm told that many if not most people in Japan hang their clothes to dry all year. I haven't checked the weather patterns to see if this is even a reasonable comparison, but I suspect it's not.
Anyway, by the time I was done putting the wet clothes on the line today I could hardly move my frozen fingers, and I know it's at least 50 degrees out there today. It's going to get a LOT colder before it gets warmer again.
Speaking of Japan, language study continues sporadically. I'm mostly listening a lot, watching Japanese films and anime and random YouTube videos. Listening to music is helping a lot, especially when I can find the kanji lyrics. Some words I recognize when I hear them, and some I recognize when I see them, and I'm continually surprised by how much I understand. Of course I haven't seen a huge variety of subject matter in the lyrics I've seen so far, but vocabulary is vocabulary!
Okay. Time to fix the dryer.
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Date: 2013-11-09 08:01 pm (UTC)