f***ing washing machine

Today I learned that we still don't understand the transmission on our washing machine. I'm really not going to learn anything until this problem is resolved, so if I disappear over the weekend, I'm just trying to learn how the #%^%$#@ washing machine works.

This is the worst part of being a sick physicist: I understood every part of the dilution refrigerator I ran in graduate school, and I could do quantum mechanics, but I appear to need help with a washing machine transmission.

And never mind that it took a bunch of engineers years to think of a design that had a transmission instead of belts.