They're late. My brand new dishwasher went on the fritz after we had a power surge or outage or something. Not having a working dishwasher can really impact one's schedule. In fact, our schedules have been so full, we didn't manage to get a maintenance tech scheduled for about 2-3 weeks after it went down. I know this is their MO, but it still pisses me off that a "scheduled" repair means the guy is supposed to show up somewhere within a 4 hour time span. 4 hours? In this day and age? C'mon people. Now I do want my dishwasher fixed, but can't you be a little more precise than that? My "appointment" was for some time between 8am and 12pm. After a long week of inadequate sleep, I was really enjoying laying in bed, but when 8am hit I had to get up because there was the outside chance that I would be the first stop on this person's route.

8:30

I'm wanting a shower. No dice, have to be there to answer the door. Guess I should feed the animals.

9:30

I'm distracted enough catching up on my Bloglines.

10:30

All caught up and beginning to feel the cabin fever. I'd scheduled other things in my day dependent on when this person is done. I guess I'll read over some of the blog posts/articles I'd stashed away for when I had more time and focus.*I know I don't have more focus, and it's anybody's guess if I have more time right now

11:00

Phone call! Maybe an "I'm on my way" update? Nope. Just a friend with whom I'd scheduled to get together with this evening. I decide to try out Backpack. It's pretty nifty and I really dig their implementation of ajax niceties.

11:30

I'm done migrating my tasklists into Backpack. So.... I'm at a loss. I fiddle with the stylesheet for my comments section a bit.

11:53

Ok, seriously. What's up? I could have been back from 9 holes at EastMoreland golf course and I can't play worth squat! You have seven minutes, dude. You'd best be knocking on my door.

12:15

I start writing this post.

It's 12:45. Still waiting.

Update

2:45

Knock knock. And 10 minutes and four button pushes later, the dishwasher works. And all I had to give up was 7 hours of my weekend!

For posterity, if you happen to own a Whirlpool Quiet Partner I (model DU1050XTPQ3) and the light above the Start button*Or was that the Cancel button is blinking, all you need to do is reboot the internal computer by:

1. Pressing the Hi-Temp Wash button
2. Pressing the Heated Dry button
3. Pressing the Hi-Temp Wash button again
4. Pressing the Heated Dry button again
5. Waiting a second while the system reboots

While waiting, maybe send a thought my way. After all, you could have just wasted 7 hours for that knowledge. </grumble>