Laundromat open thread — and a favor *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Apr 11 2010 at 1:17 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Apparently the god of inanimate objects is still angry at me, because my washing machine — filled with wet laundry, of course — gave up the ghost. I am therefore at the laundromat, an environment that precludes serious blogging, especially on an iPhone.
Speaking of blogging, I won’t be able to blog for the next few days. Indeed, I don’t even know if I’ll have computer access. In case I do, would any of you be interested in emailing me guest blogger articles? If I can, I’ll definitely publish them. I think it livens up the blog considerably to have new, fresh viewpoints on occasion. Just be warned that I probably won’t be able to edit much, if at all, so be sure you’re comfortable with anything you send. Also, shorter is probably better (paragraphs, not pages, of text).
UPDATE: Re sending me blog posts — I think I’ve figured out how to post even from my iPhone, although I won’t be able to include any hyperlinks. If you have a link, you’ll just have to put it in parenthesis. So, you’d write, “As Mark Steyn said (http://article.nationalreview.com/430938/tax-season/mark-steyn), blah blah blah.” It’s not pretty, but it will work. Later, if I have access to a real computer, I can tidy things up.
No promise, of course, that I’ll be able to publish what you’ve submitted (and I might have a problem with content, although I know most of you pretty well and am not worried), but do consider it.
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In case you weren’t aware…Some of the money Congress has decided to spend has been allotted to energy saving appliances. It goes out to all the states, but the states have to apply it individually. I don’t have a site to link to at the moment, but California’s starts the sign up period on April 22, if you can hold out that long. As far as I can tell, you sign up as long as the rebate is available – till they run out of the money – and then you have a week to buy your new energy saving appliance. You also have to recycle your old appliance – whatever that means (meaning I don’t know if it has to be running or not). In my area, one of the companies that specializes in appliance is advertising that they’ll deliver, pick up your old appliance and recycle for you. You have to have the recycle certificate to get your rebate from the State.
And I forgot…Best Buy – where I _don’t_ shop – has a really good website for checking out the various appliance. They have enough there to really compare the different options and the pricing for those options. No matter where you decide to shop for your new appliance, I’d visit them just to have all that info at one place.
With luck, my current appliance will be amenable to repair. It was just the timing that was so awful, since we’re leaving for vacation this morning!