Bits and Pieces

• Boston and Cambridge Appliance Repair rocks. I foolishly didn't start looking into repair people for the dryer until the weekend was over (and see previous post about not bringing the right information to work), but it turns out they answer the phones 24 hours a day. I called them Monday night, they gave me a window of 10-12 Tuesday, the guy showed up at 9:30 (technically outside the window, but on the useful side of outside as opposed to the not-until-4 side I'm more familiar with). He was polite, friendly, helpful, pretty much all the adjectives you want in someone who's helping you; then, he was done fixing it by 10:15, gave me advice on how to vent it better when harrock gets around to replacing that window, and was gone.
• I am an honest to goodness card-carrying member of the ACLU. I give them money every month. I wish that meant they would stop calling me on the phone asking for more money. Sigh. Is it not possible to support a group without getting flagged as "sucker" in their database?
• The Hunting of the Snark was made into a musical! How did I miss that?