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From the altfriday5:
1. What is the most expensive thing you own?
My place of residence. I have sunk $bignum into it in the process of paying for $biggernum over the course of many years.

After that, my newest computer is probably worth over $1000. No car, which I bet is #1 or #2 for a lot of people.

2. What is the most precious thing you own? Why?
Possibly my mother's quilts. (See #4 below because I answered it first.)

I have a big box of stuff labeled 'sentimental crap' which has been input-only for over a decade now. I should sort through it some time and see how much I still care about, and at least get a trip down memory lane out of it.

3. What is the most important thing you own? Why?
I'm gonna go with condo again. My financial situation would be pretty screwed if that wound up going badly.

After that, computers, for play and communication and harkish tinkering.

4. What is the most irreplaceable thing you own? Why?
My mother's quilts. I have two. One she made for my grandma's wall and one she made for my bed. The one for the bed is so nice I never actually have it out on my bed because I want it to stay pristine.

Alternately, several gigabytes of data. Pictures and code I've written. If I lost the originals and the backups I'd be very sad.

5. What is the most useful thing you own? Why?
iPhone? I certainly use it a lot.
Shoes? I use those a lot too.

Condo Snafu #6: Mystery washer-dryer leak

My neighbor called me at work today to tell me that there was water streaming out of the house from a pipe emerging from my part of the house.* She said the basement was fine, but still this was kinda inexplicable, so it was 4pm and I decided the best thing to do would be to rush home and see what it was, in the mean time she turned off the water main to the building.

It turned out to be the outlet for the drain pan around my washer-dryer which was leaking and running a lot of cold water during the dry cycle. I don't understand the physics of what it's trying to accomplish by this. Maybe it's a bug. I called customer service and they told me to check a filter behind some panel and I said ok, I'd try that, and hung up. I shoulda stayed on the line. There was one little dust bunny of hair in the filter, which I removed. I turned the machine on again and it started doing the weird leaking thing again.

It's off now, I'm going out. I'll deal with it later.

(* I thought I was being terribly clever by putting the thing on delayed cycle so that I would have freshly done dryed clothes right when I got home so that I could fold things and be done with it. If everything had worked, this would have indeed been a good plan.)