Day 103

I'm on day 103 of waiting for my new washing machine to arrive.

A Speed Queen TR7.

(Appliance nerds are nodding knowingly right now.)

For the rest of you, Speed Queen is what would happen if the brick-loving Third Little Pig built a washing machine.

Mechanical dials. Metal parts. Built like a tank.

The kind your grandma had that ran for 35 years without a hiccup.

I ordered mine back in December. Paid in full.

"6-8 weeks delivery," they said.

That was 14+ weeks ago.

Every time I call, I get a different story.

"Supply chain issues."

"It's on the boat."

"It's at the distribution center."

"It's... um... being used for an emergency laundering operation since USAID got shut down."

(I might have made that last one up.)

Yesterday, I got a voicemail saying it might be another month.

Meanwhile, our current LG is coughing and wheezing with every load…

But here's the part that will shock you.

I'm not even mad.

Because this whole washing machine saga is just confirming something I've begrudgingly learned over time.

Something your grandma tried to teach you…

Anything truly worth having requires patience. A little sacrifice.

Really good things don’t come quickly or easily.

I could have gone to Best Buy and bought whatever Samsung model with touchscreens and WiFi was on the floor. The ones whose outer shell look like a spaceship.

But it would break in 4 years.

(9 people in this house. Do the laundry math.)

The Speed Queen will outlive my mortgage.

In the same way, great businesses aren't built overnight. My first "overnight success" took 7 years.

Valuable skills demand thousands of hours.

Fast and convenient rarely equals good.

I realized this applies to everything worth having... including some "new things" I've been working on.

I wanted to launch one this month.

But it isn't ready.

So I'm making you (and me) wait until it is.

Because when you finally get your hands on this stuff, I want it to be Speed Queen quality.

Not Samsung.

Maybe the “new thing” will be ready before my washer is, we’ll see.

Either way, it’ll be a good story.

Take care,

Greg