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Dirty Dishes Can Mean the End is Near

Ed’s contacts at the literacy program he is now volunteering with held a fund raiser cocktail party at a yacht and country club on the Caloosahatchie (that’s a river – hatchie means river in the Calusa language). We went to it. It is a gated community, beautifully landscaped, lots of boats, and a lovely dining building called The Blue Coyote. What a dumb name. The snacks were good, the wine was good. The other guests were decent but dull, so we left after 45 minutes and, as for us, no one seemed to notice.

I lost track of a plastic Chinese container in the dishwasher and it was interfering with the blade so it wasn’t spreading the soap and the water and it wasn’t cleaning the dishes. I washed one load 3 times and everything was still cloudy and dirty. So Ed found the problem and things are back to normal. Quite frankly, I had no idea I would feel all meaning had gone out of life without a functioning dishwasher.

To make matters worse, there was an old movie on: “Men in War” with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray. Ed loves war movies. It was set in Korea in the 50s, about a unit fighting in an unwinnable situation. There was a colonel, an older man, who was shell shocked and stared into the middle distance. Aldo Ray cared about him and helped him because no one else had ever called him “son”. The soundtrack was music so dreary and dark that soon I felt suicidal. It was dirge-like. I was puttering around with chores and getting more and more depressed and feeling overwhelmed. I finally caught on and changed the station and not a minute too soon.
Then the dishes got clean and I saw a ray of light. The future was possible.

There are residual bugs in the pool that I hope to skim tomorrow and I hope the pump gets rid of the last of the cloudiness. I’d like to swim again.

I didn’t stretch today and that means a week of catch-up. That’s what age does to ya.

Finally, my iPod connected to the shoulder bone wasn't charging and wasn't syncing. A sweet young man named Jason at the support line said he would send me a walk through E mail so I wouldn't have to pay the $29 for real help that would be charged when the warranty was no longer in effect. I told him he was a dear and said I'd put him in my will if he just told me where he lived. I got a chuckle out of him. He sent me the E mail but you all knew it would be Sanskrit, didn't you?

But it turned out that the device that connects to the USB port had gone belly up. Ed told me (on the phone) to unplug the device from the computer and to plug the iPod line straight into the computer and that solved the problem.



xx, Teal

posted on June 25, 2010 3:03 PM ()

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Sounds like something that I do.One pot for cooking and that is it.
Maybe same school.
Hope all is well there.
comment by fredo on June 27, 2010 8:12 AM ()
I lost my ipod connector thinger so I can't charge mine...
comment by kristilyn3 on June 27, 2010 7:47 AM ()
For awhile I thought the Quick Clean Up cycle on my dishwasher wasn't working, and I know how you felt when you thought there was something wrong with yours.
comment by troutbend on June 26, 2010 5:23 PM ()
The door wouldn't mate (my fault) a few months ago. We bought another one and Ed came home, fussed with the door and it worked and he canceled the buy.
reply by tealstar on June 26, 2010 8:28 PM ()
At that time I loved Aldo Ray.I know that have an autograph picture of him somewhere.He had that raspy voice.Trying to think what movie that it was when we saw him.I know that it was not Men in War.The movie was "Battle Cry"Did Ed see this one?not sure if this was the first one.But he made several movies or more.Sorry,Teal.I still wash dishes my hand or we do.
comment by fredo on June 26, 2010 1:37 PM ()
Ed has seen every war movie ever made. When two people are doing dishes, or trading off, that is nice. Ed eats and uses dishes throughout the day. Every night the dishwasher is loaded as if we had a party. And, of course, now that we have one (we didn't in NY) he uses more dishes. When I am away, he will refill one glass the entire day.
reply by tealstar on June 26, 2010 8:34 PM ()
Dirty dishes are a bit much. Laura helped me solve a similar problem last time she visited. We have very hard water and the dishwasher lusts for rinse aid.
comment by elderjane on June 25, 2010 6:02 PM ()
Ed said I was being too "dark" about it and I said I felt overwhelmed BEFORE everything stopped working. But things are looking up.
reply by tealstar on June 25, 2010 7:38 PM ()

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