Happy Dishes Dance!
Jan. 16th, 2004 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI got up around 2:00 pm and zoned out in front of the computer until around 6:30 (I've been doing too much of that lately). Then ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taxlady told me to get ready, 'cause she wanted to do some shopping before everything closed at 9:00. We went to Plumberium, on Pierrefonds Blvd. our favorite plumbing store and tried to get some missing bits so we could hook our Washemupatron up to the bathroom sink, rather than the frozen-drained kitchen sink. He didn't have the parts, but he knew someone who did. A short jaunt to Quincallerie Jean-Cartier and we were talking to a rather nice hardware man who DID manage to come up with all the parts we needed. He also informed me that my saline solution in the kitchen sink was from 1 to 2 orders of magnitude too dilute to work. So, I also picked up a large sack of salt. Now that we've returned, the dishwasher is enthroned in our downstairs bathroom (which is right next to the kitchen) and is chugging away on the first batch of dishes. Meanwhile I've poured much, much more salt into the sink basin and am stiring it every 30 minutes or so, to ensure that the concentration in the basin is saturated. That way the salt ions should slowly diffuse into the rest of the water in the drain stack. Keeping the water in the basin saturated helps ensure that. I should have worked all that out for myself, but I guess I'm rather scarred by a high-school chemistry experiment where I managed to be the LAST kid to get his ice-cube to melt, because I had used so much wet salt it had set around the cube and formed an insulating barrier.
While on the aforesaid shopping trip, we also picked up some cheese and cold cuts in anticipation of a weekend visit by_sps_, and I FINALLY mailed that business proposal that I drafted some 4 months ago. Now I just have to write a dozen-or-so varients on the letter and mail them out to other prospective clients.
All in all, things are looking up!
taxlady told me to get ready, 'cause she wanted to do some shopping before everything closed at 9:00. We went to Plumberium, on Pierrefonds Blvd. our favorite plumbing store and tried to get some missing bits so we could hook our Washemupatron up to the bathroom sink, rather than the frozen-drained kitchen sink. He didn't have the parts, but he knew someone who did. A short jaunt to Quincallerie Jean-Cartier and we were talking to a rather nice hardware man who DID manage to come up with all the parts we needed. He also informed me that my saline solution in the kitchen sink was from 1 to 2 orders of magnitude too dilute to work. So, I also picked up a large sack of salt. Now that we've returned, the dishwasher is enthroned in our downstairs bathroom (which is right next to the kitchen) and is chugging away on the first batch of dishes. Meanwhile I've poured much, much more salt into the sink basin and am stiring it every 30 minutes or so, to ensure that the concentration in the basin is saturated. That way the salt ions should slowly diffuse into the rest of the water in the drain stack. Keeping the water in the basin saturated helps ensure that. I should have worked all that out for myself, but I guess I'm rather scarred by a high-school chemistry experiment where I managed to be the LAST kid to get his ice-cube to melt, because I had used so much wet salt it had set around the cube and formed an insulating barrier.While on the aforesaid shopping trip, we also picked up some cheese and cold cuts in anticipation of a weekend visit by
_sps_, and I FINALLY mailed that business proposal that I drafted some 4 months ago. Now I just have to write a dozen-or-so varients on the letter and mail them out to other prospective clients.All in all, things are looking up!
