Dear Hot Point Washer Designers

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Dear stupid HotPoint design people:

Your design of agitator fins that quite purposefully are not attached to the bottom of the washer drum and which have a sizeable notch (what, to allow water flow?) is the stupidest thing in the design world of washers. It allows almost everything I own, sometimes several at a time to wind around the agitator, underneath one or more fins and knot together. Tonight I had to sacrifice a sock in order to free up enough space to get a pair of tights and a shirt out from under the fins. You should find employment elsewhere.

I am not alone in this:

The agitator on this model has slits on the bottom of each fin(?). Clothes get caught in the slits and tear. Is there a replacement agitator the does not have the slits on the bottom?

Jim for Model Number GE GTWN280D1WW

Answer Jim, Unfortunately there is not a different agitator for your unit. You will want to make sure that you are not overloading the unit as this would be the primary cause for this type of issue.

I can assure you I am not overloading the washer just as I can assure you that once this tangling takes place there’s zero chance of a balanced load for spinning. Better luck with other fields of endeavor.

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Elegy for a lost dog

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

When you have a hankie handy, go read

Elegy for Blue

Someone must have seen an old dog
dragging its broken body through
the wet grass;

via Ted Kooser at American Life in Poetry

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Life and Imitation (Game)

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

After work yesterday I stuck around the mall for The Imitation Game. I avoided the gazillion or so people in the angry crowd waiting to buy tickets for whatever, standing outside the mob edge to get my ticket via Fandango so I could go off, get a nosh and then return to get my phone scanned and in we go, Bob’s your uncle!

The movie was excellent. The theater was mostly filled and the audience enjoyed laughing with the characters and gasped and reacted throughout the whole film. The depiction of British life during the war, the war itself, the flash backs and forward all wove around a story of characters doing what it takes to get it done. I enjoyed the beautiful filming, the lighting, the way I could stop seeing the actors and believe in the characters. I felt it was a wonderful gem of storytelling and film-making. Sad at almost every turn, it was full of the good moments that get you through hard times and even crushing times, until there’s nothing more to do but lie down and get crushed.

You know it’s a good movie when people are talking about it as they leave and when they stay in the theater during the credits to talk about it.

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Just in time from the Quote Box

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another’s state of consciousness. — Paul Twitchell

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Party hearty for winter is long

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Mom and I had dinner tonight at Casey’s in Rensselaer. Not that we really need a reason or excuse but tonight we were celebrating my NaNoWriMo story which just made it all fun. We had a great meal, laughed, talked and braced ourselves to go back outside into the near heart of January. For the record, she went with the risotto with mushrooms and sage topped with a crisp chicken leg. I had a salmon cakes appetizer turned into a meal with scalloped potatoes and veggies. Yummy!

Car thermometer said one degree when I drove home. Very bright moon and shining stars. I put the down comforter’s cover into the dryer to freshen it a bit and then got it back onto the comforter pretty easily and now the bed is nice and warm and I’m in it!

Here’s the hat that kept my head warm today, inside and out.

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