Not About Houseboats nor About Exercise

See the "Next Blog" link above? Blogger puts it there and takes you to a random place in the blogsphere. But, it tries to take you someplace you might find interesting. I don't know what the algorithm is, but it looks at the blog you are reading and tries to find another, similar one.
Last Summer when I kept writing about my training schedule it would take me to blogs where exercise nuts had pictures of cast iron stuff they found in junk yards and were now training themselves to lift with as few fingers of their left hand as possible. Last week, when I wrote about houseboats, it took me to Mom's pages with the latest advice on how to decorate your house and garden for Valentine's day.
This week, I wanted to write about my washing machine, and I fear the worst. That's why I gave it a misleading title and will write about exercise in a minute. We'll see what google's similarity algorithm does with that.
My apartment has a great, albeit a little small, washer/drier machine (above). You stick your clothes in there, and they come out clean and dry. I have no clue how it works. But it is fascinating.
There is no lint catcher, for one thing. (Lint should trigger a whole bunch of interesting blogs above. Maybe I should throw in the word bellybutton as well and emphasize it!)
It took me a while to get the machine to do what I want it to do, but it is still a mystery on how it does it. It takes for ever to wash and dry your clothes: four or five hours per load. When it is in the dry cycle, it keeps adding water all the time. You hear this high pitched whine like it is spinning at hyper-sonic speeds, but the drum inside the window is barley turning. Then you hear a slow rhythmic whoosh-whoosh, making you think of rocking chairs, but the thing is spinning at escape velocity.
When you take your clothes out, they are wet. You shake them once with a snap, and all of a sudden they are dry! You can't touch them; they are burning hot, even on the lowest dry setting. If you touch a zipper or the rivets on your jeans, they will leave burn marks on your skin! The leather flap on the back of your jeans that says whether they are relaxed fit or straight, and what size your belly is, is soft as rubber. As it dries, it curls up, and you can't get your belt in anymore, and the waistband feels weird back there with this wad-up knot of a leather label.
I've been meaning to look up the technology behind this process before I wrote this blog. But it is time to reveal the existence of this mystery, even though I cannot explain it yet.
About exercise: I didn't do mine today. I did taxes and FAFSA. But, I started on a program to do 100 push-ups and another to do 200 squats. I'm on week four with my push-ups, even though I started last August. I'm doing better with my squats and have another week to go; i.e. sometime later this year.
Despite the setbacks and interruptions, the exercise schedules actually work and I am making progress. You should try them and then, just for fun, click on the "Next Blog" link above.