Woke up this morning to my better-3/4 complaining about the 6yo Maytag top-load washing machine leaving residue on clothes. Strange, it gets regular cleaning cycles with tablets.

So lucky me, spent the first four hours of today disassembling the entire washing machine down to the bottom of the drain tub. Once I got the top plastics off and saw the outside of the drum, I knew it was gonna be bad. Took about 2 hours to clean out enough slimy mildew/algae/whatever to fill a 1/2 quart Pyrex, soaking all the parts in a light bleach solution, flushing out and scrubbing down the entire drum, then reassembling before 3 cleaning cycles, and ... it's still working, so: GOOD NEWS!

Running through the 2nd load of the day right now. No more residue. GOOD NEWS!

But it also meant I didn't get any time to work on the '80ish pearl-white Grand Record I picked up off eBay out of Charleston SC a couple years back. BAD NEWS. Managed to get its all-black Cinelli stem unstuck on Friday GOOD NEWS! which "was" mint but is now toast BAD NEWS!. Of course, the stem wasn't the correct diameter. I delayed working on it because of the undisclosed clamp damage on the seat tube, their eBay pic below, note the vertical crease mid-tube, seller claimed he knew nothing about it. I deleted a post asking if there's any way to repair it because I was worried the seller is on BF with all the other vintage bikes they had. Anyway, hopefully will get time to work on a first round of compounding out the paint tomorrow. Once I polish it up and wax I can finally apply the seat decal Vintage_Cyclist sent me almost 3yrs ago now (thanks! I haven't forgotten!). Need to find a new black 120ish stem for it though, I really like the way the cockpit/seat/rim/tire pops. I'd really like to stick with the aero levers, too.