The new dishwasher is broken. A defective unit with flashing lights and ringing bells indicating a bad power supply assembly.
I had to push very hard, but Lowe’s has agreed to a return and refund. I’m waiting for a call from the distribution center to schedule a pickup. The one good thing to happen from this mess was the electrician installed a new, low-profile power connection.
I am waiting for the electrician or someone like him. He should be here this afternoon. The plan is to make the hole in the floor large enough to drop the junction box, then run the cable up to the new dishwasher.
Note the water damage on the floor in the second picture. I came home from one of my numerous Phoenix trips and saw water streaks on the wall downstairs in the finished basement. The Bosch dishwasher had sprung a leak, and it was replaced with the Kitchenaid that is now itself being replaced.
There’s a problem that will delay the dishwasher installation. It has a sealed bottom with no space for this electrical junction box that’s under the old unit. I’ve sent this picture to the plumber with a voice message. After he calls me in the morning I’ll call an electrician.
The dishwasher died yesterday. It’s a Kitchenaid that’s only six years old. The Bosch that preceded it lasted eight years, and so did the Bosch before it. According to Consumer Reports, Bosch is the most reliable brand. My definition of reliability is fifteen years, which happens to be age of the Maytag washer and dryer pair I bought for $700 on a no sales tax weekend in 2008.
Samsung is supposed to be one of the less reliable brands, but that’s what I bought today for $399 at Lowes. CA says it cleans and dries very well, and I like the handle. I’m less enamored of the door’s pulley mechanism as seen in the photo. Here comes the fourth dishwasher since starting this weblog!
MySqueezebox, the app intermediary for Logitech Media Server, is no more, taking access to TuneIn with it. Being determined to keep live radio streaming on my LMS network, I built a local collection of essential favorites to access the streams directly. It took a while to find all of the right URL’s, but they’re now working within LMS.
My retirement activities are being determined in part by what my sinuses are doing to my ears on any given day. For all the countless hours I spent on airplanes traveling for work over many years, and then in the loud data centers at my destinations, I’m amazed I don’t have a much worse chronic case of tinnitus.
Adjusting to aging is something that those of us who last this long must do. I sit here rubbing my weak ankle that is also determining my retirement activities. It would otherwise be fine, if not for an elderly Russian man slamming into the back of my stopped car 22 years ago.
While sitting, rubbing and listening, I am worrying about someone near and dear to me who will undergo open heart surgery. We’re counting on world-class Boston heart surgeons to be as successful as a world-class Boston retina surgeon was in restoring the sight in my left eye.
* You are of course wondering what headphones were used in the test. The Beyerdynamic DT-150, that has been a standard at Abbey Road Studios for many years.
