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The Freezer Ratting Stopped After I Drained the Ice and Turned Down the Thermostat

About 14 months ago I bought a 1,000 dollar Kenmore refrigerator and didn't opt for the extended warranty, so all I had was a year.

Yesterday my wife called me at work to say the freezer was making a hideous rattling sound. I envisioned Sears coming over and charging me $300 to make the fix, but I found online that a rattling freezer is often the result of too much ice buildup. 

So this morning, I lowered the freezer temp and drained the ice, about 4 salad bowl-fulls.

An hour later, the rattling stopped. 

Update:

The rattle returned, but it's not as noisy. I'm hoping over the next several hours the lowered temp will eliminate the rattle. If not, I'm in trouble. 

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FM Tuner Off on the Sangean WR-11: How Do I Fix It?

A reader writes:

I stumbled across your review of the Sangean WR-11 radio. Nice review. I ended up buying one after reading your comparison to the Model one. I am a happy Tivoli Pal owner, but had the need for a second tabletop in my home office while the Pal lives in the bathroom. 

Anyway, I read that you had to adjust your FM tuner to have the readout correct for the station you had tuned into. My needle is also off in the FM. Before I tear into this thing to try to figure out what to adjust, is it something easy to adjust? Is it a simple trim pot or something like that? I couldn't really tell from your photos what you adjusted. 

 

Any advice would be appreciated. Back to reading your blog now.

I Just Flushed Three Octopus Legs Down the Toilet

Natalie was on the toilet after having an accident. I peeked inside and thought she had done her business. Being colorblind doesn't help me when I confuse purple rubber octopus legs (about 4 inches a piece) with Natalie's business. As I flushed the toilet, I saw the octopus absent three legs in the nearby basket and shouted an expletive inside my head. I called the plumber and he told me to flush both toilets ten times. So far no clog, but I'm walking on egg shells. 

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Interesting to look back at these prognostications (Dan Patrick didn't think Olbermann was going to the Mothership) several months later.

With the first 2 wks of his popular new show under his belt, Olbermann appears to have settled in quite nicely at-- hey look, it's ESPN!

He won't have some of the headaches with management that Patrick had because, for one thing, Olbermann doesn't need the money. He's doing this show for fun and viewers are responding positively to Olbermann's new-found cheerfulness and celebrated knowledge of sports.

If the show has one drawback, it's that the network keeps inexplicably moving its start time. But viewers seem to understand that's not Olbermann's fault as they patiently strive to find the show every night.

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Something nice for a radio collector with deep pockets(and lots of room):

http://tinyurl.com/pv2slrz

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Companies like Panerai raise prices on watches, which actually helps owners because the re-sell value also increases, but I cannot help but wonder what the "real" value of a Panerai is compared to, say, an Oris.

I mean, I don't doubt increase in quality. I've seen the difference between a $100, $300, $500, $1K, and $3K watches. But at some point the curve shows diminished increase in PERCEIVABLE quality, while prices continue to rocket. For me the key is finding the "sweetspots" and watches that represent good value for the price they cost - value in terms of the quality of the build, design, movement, etc.

Bill brings up a good point:  how perceived value and price tag impacts desire. It's hard to look at a $10K Panerai completely objectively. I mean, I love them but I can't say I love them more than, say, my Orient Saturation Diver. Is it a better watch? More beautifully designed? I cannot say.

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