 User avatar  Larry Greenly   Resident Chile Head     Sun Mar
26, 2006 12:37 pm   Albuquerque, NM  Whew, dodged the big
dishwasher bullet  by Larry Greenly » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:15 pm
Speaking of angst. I had a lot of it earlier today when I
thought my dishwasher had broken.  It wouldn't turn on even
though I reset everything and pushed all kinds of buttons (the
control panel is much more complex than just on and off). The
digital readout kept mocking me with "1 hr [left]." Obviously it
was getting electricity, so my breakers were okay. I thought
perhaps the control logic had gotten scrambled somehow (how do
you reboot a dishwasher?).  After reading the instruction
manual, doing a lot of cursing, and wondering why it said "1 hr"
instead of "60 [min]" like it normally does, a faint oven bulb
(or was it just an LED?) lit up in my brain. It was telling me
that it was going to start washing an hour in the future. I had
obviously bumped a wrong button doing something else. Duh!
Anyway, I feel better now. I had ha