What IS it with irons?

[avanta7]

I bought a new iron today. Again. This makes at least the fifth steam iron I've bought in the last ten years. They're not cheap-o offbrand irons either. I can't figure out what the heck causes them to die so soon. They either start leaking or stop steaming. I don't drop them. I don't think spouse drops them. We buy the kind where we can use tap water rather than distilled water, so I don't think it's a mineral deposit problem. Maybe it's the fact that we iron every single day. Maybe we just wear it out.

Hmm. Definitely a non_entities post.

Comments

Whoa!

[fizzybeverage.livejournal.com]

You really applied for a job in SLO? (I was just scrolling through your old entries.)
Details please!

Re: Whoa!

[shendoah.livejournal.com]

See what happens when you don't check in!!

Re: Whoa!

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

Yep. I really did. It's a low-level management position in the SLO office, and I made the BQ (best-qualified) list, which means the selecting official looks at my application. Although I have no real hope of actually being chosen, it was too good an opportunity to pass up. It isn't often that positions in California, much less the Central Coast, are open to accepting inter-region applicants. I also put in for a similar position in Oroville. The foothills would be almost as good as the coast.

It's a small world after all...

[fizzybeverage.livejournal.com]

I had a phone conversation today with someone in the SLO office. Just think, that could have been you.
Well, no, it wouldn't have been...she was a case worker. But you could be her boss. She seemed like a nice person. ;-)