xmas booty addendum

Forgot one thing: a book called Heaven Knows, the content of which is letters from deceased persons to the living. All of Irish historical significance, and humour. Looks interesting, but I've not cracked it open yet.

Irritated at the moment because the washing machine broke again. Now, I've not been scrupulously careful about loading it, but I've been far more careful than I was for the year plus before it broke, so I'm blaming the guy who "fixed" it. Inspection of the innards revealed that the drive wheel was loose; this time, having an actual functioning brane in operation, I realised that the wheelbrace which came with my car is about the correct size for the bolt that holds the drive wheel on. Jammed the drum, cranked the bolt about a quarter-turn, and presto. Happy washing machine. I guess I should get some threadlock or something to make sure it doesn't slip again, although the way my bro used do this was to hammer seven shades of shit out of the exposed part of the thread so that the only way the bolt was coming off was if it recut the threads itself. Of course, there's no exposed thread, so even if I wanted to cowboy it I couldn't.