My bath towels haven’t been smelling so fresh lately. I thought I remembered something about washing them with vinegar to help strip off old laundry and fabric softener residue. (I have just realized that I remembered because I did it with some other towels six years ago.)

I put vinegar in the washing machine, and a little dish soap, to make the water wetter. Who did I learn that sentence from? “Soap makes water wetter”. I want to say it was Gil Danzer?

After washing and drying, the towels seemed fresh. We’ll see if they last.

My search through the memory archive reveals the fact that three years after I did this last time, I bought new towels. Did I buy them because the vinegar wash didn’t work, or because I just wanted new towels?

I finished cleaning my classroom yesterday. At the top of the list was getting my desk cleared, which was no small feat. It has to be empty because they’re going to wax the floor and will want to move the desk. My instructions were to take a picture of my computer set-up so that the IT guy can reconnect everything after it’s been moved.

The top of the desk is so beautiful and woody 🙂

I have passed by this sign many times:

It’s such a distinctive sign, it always catches my eye.

There are many burger restaurants in LA. Most of them say “charbroiled” on the sign. They all seem to offer the same burger: cheese, lettuce, tomato, and thousand island dressing. I haven’t seen this in any other place I’ve lived. It’s an interesting cultural feature of this area.

The other day, I finally stopped at this one. The burger was ok, but the onion rings were AMAZING. They are the best I’ve had in a long time. The onions were sweet, and the breading was just right. If you’re looking for good onion rings, this is the place to go.

On the last day of my eighth grade class trip, my debit card stopped working. Fortunately, I had a credit card I could use, but I would have to figure out when I got home.

As it turns out, my card was locked for a suspicious charge, and as it turns out, it WAS a fraudulent charge. I used a company a long time ago to buy a piece of music I needed for church instead of stealing it. They rewarded my honesty by using my card number and charging me $70 for some prescription I didn’t sign up for.

I’m thinking the bank flagged it because this company has done it many times before, and other people have contested the charges, and now the fraud department of the bank automatically stops payment. Good job, bank!

I didn’t lose any money, but I lost time having to get a new card and changing all the things it was paying. Shame on you, music company!