Well, as I mentioned before, I got a new dishwasher. It is a Whirlpool Gold Tall Tub (GU1500XTL). Well, it took about an hour and a half, with dinner in the middle, but I got it installed. Mary is loading it up for the first run. I've got some paper down to make sure it doesn't leak.

[Doh! Mary just called, there was water flowing everywhere. Turns out that Mary had adjusted some PVC pipes under the sink last week, and, when I attached the hose from the dishwasher to the garbage disposal, I had dislodged one of the couplings, so it was pouring water into the cabinet sink. UGH! Lots of cleaning later, we were back.]

Well, I ran a quick rinse load, but had forgotten to turn the water back on, so nothing happened. We loaded up the washer, turned the water on, pressed the “Normal” load setting and away it went. Almost immediately, I noticed that I had a leak in the copper fittings, so I'm going to have to fix it on Tuesday night (I teach tomorrow night, so no plumbing will be done).

[Later:] After running a normal load, we are noticing that the heat vent is on the front top left of the door, which means that it comes up out and hits the countertop. Not good, since we have a custom, hand-done, cracked-tile mosaic countertop (Mary did it a year ago, single-handedly, it took all winter), and we're not sure if that is going to handle the heat. Might have to figure out some sort of heat exchange mechanism to put under the countertop to take the heat out the side. Mary is having second thoughts about this now, since the countertop represents a hell of a lot of work on her part.