I learned something important this morning. A lesson in life. That lesson (to which many of you will say “Yes, Andy, of course, why didn’t you know that, I told you that but you didn’t listen.”) is this: “Never bother getting out of warranty repair on any appliance worth less than $200.” The microwave has a broken door switch, it doesn’t know when the door is closed, so it won’t start cooking. The replacement switch is $15. The labor to replace the switch would have been $150. (Not to mention the cost for the actual service call and estimate… which I won’t mention because I’m ashamed.) So there are two direct outcomes from this: first, it looks like we may be borrowing Hank’s extra microwave and not using the one built in to the oven\/stove. And secondly, well, I’ll point that one out when it happens. Eventually, I should replace that whole unit, or even get two separate units to prevent this sort of replacement scenario in the future, after all, the thing is<\/i> 16 years old.<\/p>\n
Secondly, it appears that, as a part of the whole construction going on around the SR-85\/US-101 interchange in Mountain View, the NB-101 -> Old Middlefield offramp is going to be closed starting today… for a year and a half<\/i>. That’s not fair! I use that ramp twice a week when I go to play Magic! *sigh*<\/p>\n
Also, today was a very weird day at work. It turns out that, even though I was physically moved, it was so last minute that I wasn’t added to the official move list, so many of the other things that are associated with a move didn’t happen. My phone didn’t work in the new location, my information in the corporate directory wasn’t updated, and my mailbox didn’t move. Now, I’m used to my phone not working, it hasn’t worked for at least a day, at times up to two weeks after I move, but this was sort of frustrating that the phone guy couldn’t actually change me until he confirmed with the move coordinator that I was, in fact, in a different place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I learned something important this morning. A lesson in life. That lesson (to which many of you will say “Yes, Andy, of course, why didn’t you know that, I told you that but you didn’t listen.”) is this: “Never bother getting out of warranty repair on any appliance worth less than $200.” The microwave has … <\/p>\n