When heating up soup yesterday evening, the left front electric burner *exploded*! Seems that the water from the leaking teakettle had somehow gotten into the supposedly-sealed burner element itself during the time that the burner was flooded by the leaking teakettle. Now, what happens when you put superheated steam into a practically sealed container? Ka-BOOM! It sent the pot flying, and spread powdered ceramic and little pieces of resistive wire all over the friggin' stovetop, as well as soup. I mopped up the worst, but I need to go find a new burner and put the stovetop back together...
While settling in for my afternoon nap yesterday, I heard some purring. I looked down at the foot of the bed and The Mighty Fang was alternately grooming Mencken and snuggling against his chest. I thought, "how sweet, TMF loves grooming Mencken so much that he's purring about it." I reached down and checked under TMF's chin. No vibration. I checked under Mencken's chin. Vibrating up a storm. The ornery old coot actually let himself enjoy being groomed for a change! To understand how unusual this is, TMF and Mencken have lived together in my home for five years now. Mencken is a couple of years older than TMF and I brought TMF home because Mencken was always following me around whining that I wasn't giving him enough attention and I figured he needed a buddy and what better buddy than a big lovable lunk of a kitty who wants nothing more than to groom everyone and everything? Bad judgement on my part -- Mencken was, like, "bah humbug" at that notion, wanting nothing to do with TMF, submitting to the occasional grooming from TMF with laid-back ears and an expression of distaste before finally getting so irritated that he'd whack TMF with his claws to make him go away. So this is sort of a breakthrough for Mencken. Maybe he's finally figured out that TMF isn't there to steal his food (Mencken is a former feral, thus is paranoid about that whole food thing)...
-- Badtux the Diarist Penguin
I've had an electric burner blow up on me. And I was boiling water in a pot at the time. The pot was made of metal, so it stayed on the stove. But the burner burned a hole right through it, the water drained out, bluish light lit up the room, evil noises were unleashed, and I almost wet myself.
ReplyDeleteOther than all that, everything was fine...