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Post hoc ergo propter hoc
May. 15th, 2024 10:48 amAfter this, therefore because of this.
The washer-dryer took a turn for the poorly, yesterday, with perplexing symptoms that didn't quite match anything in the manual: was that icon because the water level was too high? There was no accompanying audio signal. It wasn't flashing (temperature too high to open safely) and seemed to be stopping a few minutes after starting anyway – no chance to get hot in the first place, although the dryer fan did kick in, which it sometimes does, 'because'.
I'm waiting on a callback from a man who knows about these things; who can say?
The PHEPH moment is at question because, on Monday, I attacked the bathroom plumbing. A slowwwwwly filling cystern needed attention and, after taking the piping off back to the isolating valve, found the problem in the ballcock system. It was easier to check the flow IN rather than dismantling the ballcock, believe me, and I wanted to check the flexible section of the piping for blockages anyway.
I replaced the old-style arm ballcock with a really cool and very quiet pipe-and-float system which, after one glitch, an airlock, seems to be doing ok.
So. I get one thing working and another breaks. OBVIOUSLY the usual case of 'there's always something that will need fixing' that I had with a car a couple of decades back. If I left a dented panel dented, nothing else happened; if I got thje dents removed, another one showed up in short order, up to and including a glancing blow from a car approaching at speed on the wrong side of the road. Something of a dramatic finish to a dramatic evening, if I remember (and try to block right away).
My next thing is, if I can fix the non-functioning Dreamwidth spellchecker, what will go CLUNK instead?
The washer-dryer took a turn for the poorly, yesterday, with perplexing symptoms that didn't quite match anything in the manual: was that icon because the water level was too high? There was no accompanying audio signal. It wasn't flashing (temperature too high to open safely) and seemed to be stopping a few minutes after starting anyway – no chance to get hot in the first place, although the dryer fan did kick in, which it sometimes does, 'because'.
I'm waiting on a callback from a man who knows about these things; who can say?
The PHEPH moment is at question because, on Monday, I attacked the bathroom plumbing. A slowwwwwly filling cystern needed attention and, after taking the piping off back to the isolating valve, found the problem in the ballcock system. It was easier to check the flow IN rather than dismantling the ballcock, believe me, and I wanted to check the flexible section of the piping for blockages anyway.
I replaced the old-style arm ballcock with a really cool and very quiet pipe-and-float system which, after one glitch, an airlock, seems to be doing ok.
So. I get one thing working and another breaks. OBVIOUSLY the usual case of 'there's always something that will need fixing' that I had with a car a couple of decades back. If I left a dented panel dented, nothing else happened; if I got thje dents removed, another one showed up in short order, up to and including a glancing blow from a car approaching at speed on the wrong side of the road. Something of a dramatic finish to a dramatic evening, if I remember (and try to block right away).
My next thing is, if I can fix the non-functioning Dreamwidth spellchecker, what will go CLUNK instead?
