Where did my weekend go?
Dec. 13th, 2004 09:44 amWhere did the weekend go? Omaha and I were home, I know that. She was still sick, still trying to deal with that horrible cough that seems to be going away slowly. I remember that I assembled six meals ( for both kids. We spent a lot of time putting together a portfolio of pictures of the kids for the year to send to our relatives. There was a lot of futzing with computers to get the print quality up. I moved a lot of old stuff onto archive disks, which is always useful. The girls never did get their episodes of Uninhabited Planet, even though I have 35 through 43 ready for them. Come to think of it, they were so occupied with other stuff they never watched television at all. I actually spent half an hour writing. I damn near set the house on fire Sunday morning when I turned on the wrong burner, with the burner covers stacked on top of it. Another set trashed. Crap. I wish they made them with safety equipment, like an alarm or something. I cleaned and vacuumed the car's interior. Omaha did a lot of laundry and bookkeeping. The girls were difficult about cleaning up, but they did eventually. They had fun smashing the eggs for egg salad sandwiches, but we were out of celery. We stopped by Ikea to pick up more storage for kid stuff, and had dinner there. It was that kind of weekend.
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Date: 2004-12-13 07:35 pm (UTC)Yes, I've destroyed a few burner covers that way, myself....
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Date: 2004-12-14 03:14 am (UTC)Y'know, it amazes me that they don't make those things with safety extensions. I think I see a need-- a device that, when heated, makes a loud popping sound long before the enamel on the burner cover gets damaged and lies flat on the inside of the burner pan.
The problem is that you'd have to sell them separate from the burner pan. Because if one company started selling them, all them would have to: it would be untenable from a liability standpoint to be one of the companies that doesn't sell safety burner covers.