Betwixt and Between

There are two principal strategies for dealing with a dishwasher. (Well, there's a third, which is not to use it at all, using the sink and elbow grease instead, and I know people who follow that line, but....) One is the clean and organized one: after washing dishes, transfer them to the cabinets; add dishes to the washer as they become dirty, and when there are enough of them run the dishwasher. The other, which I associate with bachelorhood, is to use the dishwasher as a supplementary cabinet: leave the clean dishes in the washer until you need them, and put dirty dishes on the counter above it. When there are either too few dishes in, or too many on top of, the dishwasher, load and run it.

Unsurprisingly, I've tended to follow the second strategy. This year, though, I've been trying to shift to the first, just from a general sense of "Grow up, willya?" And I've been fairly good about it, so far. However, sometimes old code crosses up new code... Last night, there were a few dirty dishes on the counter, and the dishwasher was more-or-less full, so I moved the clean dishes to the cabinets, loaded the handful of dirty dishes into the washer, and - running on autopilot - started the washer. There were about a dozen items in it, half of which were silverware.

Oh, well. Glitches happen.