Oddities and annoyances
Feb. 24th, 2006 12:29 pmI know that dishwashers -- American ones, anyway -- are not generally considered capable of actually washing dishes without prerinsing so extensive that one might as well just do the washing up by hand. Being British, though, I've always cheerfully ignored this, and let the unrinsed dishes sit around for the week it takes to accumulate a load, and my (quite elderly and basic) dishwasher has mostly coped. The load I ran last night, though, came out with about half the items not noticeably cleaner than they went in. I suspect it's a problem with the newfangled detergent sachets; will have to look again and see if I can get one of the older formulations. In my experience, the much-advertized fancy new ideas never work as well, possibly because they're user-tested under standard usage assumptions.
I have a rudimentary prepaid cell phone, to which about four people have the number. It's intended for emergencies, or at least contingencies, not for idle chat, and is mostly more useful as an alarm clock/organizer than a phone. In the last couple of weeks, I've been getting a surprising number of wrong-number calls from the local area; to my mortification, one came while I was in a meeting at the Monterey conference, and I was so used to never getting calls that I hadn't thought to silence it. There were two more this morning, one while I was enjoying a lie-in.
I have a rudimentary prepaid cell phone, to which about four people have the number. It's intended for emergencies, or at least contingencies, not for idle chat, and is mostly more useful as an alarm clock/organizer than a phone. In the last couple of weeks, I've been getting a surprising number of wrong-number calls from the local area; to my mortification, one came while I was in a meeting at the Monterey conference, and I was so used to never getting calls that I hadn't thought to silence it. There were two more this morning, one while I was enjoying a lie-in.
