Scattershot update

[mtbc]

I took a few days off work, I'm back in the office this Friday. My time off has kept me rather busy with all manner of unexpected things, to some extent that looks to continue. To give one example, on the evening before Thanksgiving, with a raw turkey marinating, there is a large puff of smoke, the power breakers trip, and our electric oven appears to die. Fortunately, the top element for grilling still seems to work, with which R. coaxed us a turkey after all. The new oven arrives this weekend, when we'll see if we can replace the fitted oven ourselves or if we fall back to summoning a tradesperson. Also, for making one of the pies: canned pumpkin seems to have largely disappeared from the general supermarkets, we ended up ordering that from Amazon.

Not wanting to bother with VPNs and Peacock and such, I usually find one of the free Thanksgiving parade streams that shows the centre of the action from some other city than New York. I think it may have been Philadelphia or somesuch last year, this year I stumbled upon Chicago's, not the best choice as it turned out to heavily promote some sponsor's product for cleaning up fæces.

Among other things keeping me busy, today I did my office desk booking for the rest of the month, and tomorrow we are to get our SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations: I seem to have found local Moderna which costs us £85 each but the risks are too high to not do this at least occasionally.

Comments

[thewayne]

Bad time to lose your stove, or part of it! We had to replace ours several years ago when the controller lost its magic smoke. I had to replace the oven element a few years back, I was kinda proud being able to do that on my own. Fortunately it wasn't a built-in.

[mtbc]

Replacing the built-in turned out to be reasonable, thank goodness: fairly standard sizing, unscrew the front screws, slide it out, wire the new exactly into where the old was, screw in the front screws. And now R. has apple pie baking …

[thewayne]

Yay!  Been a long time since I made a pie, I really should do another some time.