Do you think God is conspiring with credit agencies?
I ask this because Katie took in the final payment for the carpet we bought last year to Home Despot (intentional) on Monday. Yesterday morning, I go to melt some cheese on an English muffin in our microwave and it goes bonkers.
I simply put the muffin in the oven for 15 seconds and walked away for a moment to do something. Suddenly I realized that it had been longer than 15 seconds and the microwave was still running. I look over and the display shows a solid zero.
Ho boy.
I run over and hit the cancel button. Nothing.
I open the door to trip the auto shutoff. It keeps cooking with the door open.
I run out to the breaker box and find one labeled "kitchen" and flip it. Still cookin'.
I find a second breaker labeled "kitchen stove" and kill it. I can still hear the hum of the microwave.
Finally I run back inside and climb up to the upper cabinet above where the microwave is mounted, pull out several bottles of liquor (it is our liquor cabinet, after all), and rip out the power cable. It finally shuts off.
I plugged the microwave back in and try to hit some buttons and none of them do anything.
When I checked on the muffin, the remaining layer of cheese had cooked paper thin and was hard as rock candy.
Great. Dead microwave. Just what we need.
Wait, I think we got it working... for now. We'll see.
I guess if there's anything I'm thankful for today, it's that we're not cooking dinner for tonight. Heh.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
Totally Unrelated Aside (TUA): Okay, it's a slightly related aside, but I don't feel like starting a whole new category here. Best to stick with what we know, right?
For the first time in a long time, I'm participating in one of these special blogger holidays. I know it may be a day late, but certainly not a dollar short (I hope). Okay, maybe it's two days late. But it works well as today is Thanksgiving so I'm sure I'll be forgiven, right?
It's Neil's Thank Your First Commenter Day! And I need to thank my first commenter who, if I recall correctly, is none other than Dave2 who commented on a post dated June 23, 2005. I also feel I must give credit to SJ who commented on a post dated June 17, 2005. Of course the comment came in on June 23 at 9:09 p.m. while Dave's came in at 11:19 a.m. But I'm not splitting hairs here. Both are just as important to my blogging evolution.
They are important because both found me and commented soon after my conversion from static HTML to blogware and that interaction is what has made me stick with blogging for a couple years now. I love the interaction that we have both here and on everyone else's blog.
So thank you, Dave and SJ! And everyone else knows who to blame! Heh.
