Another chapter in the laundry saga...

My good friend Andy Wallach used to be the wardrobe guy for the Siegfreid and Roy Show in Las Vegas until the untimely Tiger Incident two years ago. When the show closed, most of the costume shop equipment ended up in his garage, including an almost brand new Maytag washer and dryer. As they have been sitting around unused for months, he offered them up, but I had to haul them away myself. We both use the same sewing maching repair guy at our jobs at Puppetland and Star Dreck (the guy has the lock on both LA and Vegas) so I paid him $200 to haul the pair back, on the theory that the truck never makes a run empty. Alvin even helped us bring them in the house, and gave advice on setting them up.

So now we have the same washing machine that washed the spangled tights of the world's most fabulous and flamboyant magicians.

I will set up the washer tomorrow and do the debut load. The dryer will have to wait a bit. The plug on that is the same plug you might use to plug in a crane at a factory or something. It has four giant prongs and the head is as big as a take out hamburger box. An electrician will have to "run a 220 line from the fuse box." Blah blah blah, throw a little more money at it and hopefully we will have clean and dry laundry for the next 20 years.