The moment that everyone fears most.   The violent struggle, shaking, and gurgling.  A last gasp.   Yes, it's sad to say it but your clothes washer gave up the ghost.   Now what?   Order a new control board for it during the middle of a global microchip shortage?   Not a chance.   I did a quick web search to verify that there were still made in the USA washers out there.  Luckily there were, so I headed out to the local home improvement store.  At first I was drawn to the simpler models with old-fashioned knobs and analog buttons.   But I slowly gave in to the allure of shiny touchscreens, a smooth spinning super knob, and the intuitiveness of a play/pause button.  There was one machine in general that caught my attention:  the General Electric GFW550SSN1WW.  You know the one that I'm talking about.  It looks so futuristic I can't tell if it's a clothes washer or the Large Hadron Col...

 I'm a bit overdue in writing this one but better late than never, right?  Well our family got a dog, dogs need food, and food needs to be stored in container (it's the law!).  Ergo our family needs a pet food container.   I also found out that bags of dog food are really big and heavy.   Like carrying around a dead body big and heavy.  Therefore we needed a bigggg, pet food container but not so big that it doesn't fit in our mud room.  Ideally the container should also be airtight-ish and bear-proof.  After a quick web search I ended-up choosing the Gamma2 Vittles Vault.  I'm assuming a vittle is equivalent to a kibble, both of which are things that I don't want to eat.  Anyhow to make the container airtight they have to have a spinning latch door, so every time I open it I imagine that I'm in a submarine.  Bonus!  I bet you can't tell from the pictures below which is which. The bottom line is that the vittles vault ...