LOL - enjoyed some of those.
Reading the dryer as washer one reminded me of my student days - first time away from home - going to a launderette with all the coins I'd saved up - putting the coins on top of the machine in readiness - getting the soap powder from a machine - putting it into the dispenser. Then, with the bag of clothes still waiting at my feet I decided to load the coins into the slider and kerchunk pushed it in: Of course the front door of the washer immediately locked and the cycle started - sans clothes....
I watched for a while as the soapy water went this way and that and then went searching for a shop that was open on a sunday that could give me some change for another attempt at washing my clothes
A couple of people came in later and looked quizzically at the machine that was operating but with no clothes in it. I just shrugged...
I also (in the same launderette) had a full load (just about everything I owned) trapped in a washing machine that malfunctioned - took about 4 days to get a repairer to get them out...hmmm...soak cycle ?
In terms of an Astro oops - setup in the back garden all by the light of a mobile phone display
- then packed up - did a quick scan around and went inside and to bed (it was late and I was tired). In the morning I couldn't find my laptop and looked out to see it sat on a small plastic chair in the middle of the lawn - covered in a not insubstantial dew - no longer running Stellarium...
After drying out for a couple of days I plugged it in again and it performed admirably thereafter (just as well really since it was a work laptop and cost about $2K)
