Kintropy In Action

I'm guessing several of you woke this morning, wondering what felt different.  Something was just a little off.  Was it a change in the weather?  Halloween ghosts getting an early start on autumn?  Something accidently left out of the fridge all night:  a sacrifical baloney offering to the kitchen gods, perhaps?

No, that was me fixing something.

This is a rare event.  In our house, Janette wears the toolbelt; I call (or delegate calling) service providers.  But this morning, I was emptying the dishwasher while everyone else slept (yeah, don't break that arm patting yourself on the back).  The top rack has been off kilter for awhile.  The right side has kind of dragged and tilted when pulled out.

I took a closer look this morning and found that the little wheel thingy wasn't connected to the little spoke thingy.  So I moved the wheel thingy and put the spoke thingy back in it.  The top rack now runs more-or-less correctly (very technical - I'd explain further, but you wouldn't understand ). 

This is a major achievement.  I don't expect it to last, of course.  The root cause of the problem is still turning the right slider-bar-thingy a little cockeyed, and I'm pretty sure we'll need parts.  But I'll (delegate) making a call on that one.  Today, I bask in my brief, manly achievement.

-- Dad