There is never enough money or time

[clevermanka]

My oven is on the blink. A few months ago, it started giving off a strong gas smell (and, once, an unnerving WHOOMP sound) when I bypassed the preheat setting and just set it to the bake temperature (thus avoiding the annoying beep-beep-beep-beep once it reaches temperature). Now it gives a strong gas smell when I use the pre-heat. Not good. Steve's Appliance Repair will be out tomorrow between 9:00 and noon. Thanks, roya_spirit, for your Yelp review. Saved me asking around here.

Really hope I don't need a new oven. Really hoping, here.

I'll be at The Latenight Callers show tomorrow night. Will you?

This weekend I start serious work on The Coat.

Comments

[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

Hoping you don't need a new oven either.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

*snort*

Perfect icon is perfect.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Want Coat.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I am so terrified of gas stoves, I would have moved outta the house until it was fixed. Hope it's not too complicated to resolve. :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You and me both. =D

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! The first time it happened (the time with the sound effect to boot), I was all "THE HELL???" and the adrenaline kick enabled me to pull the stove out all by myself so I could check the gas lines.

I got over my fear of gas stoves when I spent the summer of 1987 in Italy. The family I stayed with had a gas stove with no pilot light. You had to turn on the gas and light the burner with a match. Then I went into metalsmithing where lit our blowtorches with hand-held mechanical sparkers.

Haven't lost any eyebrows yet! =D

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Our stove was like that in Brussels, too. Whenever it was my turn to cook, I'd put together something cold or raw, or else use the electric griddle. I shit you not. I am *seriously* pyrophobic.

Made it awfully hard to be an altar server as a kid, too, not being able to use a lighter. Gah.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

OMG you poor thing. Phobias are annoying, nasty things. *pat*pat*

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

It's probably not clinical; I'm being melodramatic. :) I've carefully developed some confidence in fire-building during my recent time with the Boy Scouts, which is good. Gotta make sure I can survive the Zombie Apocalypse, and be generally useful to The Revolution, dontcha know. But I still get veryveryvery nervous.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Good on you for fighting your fear!

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, I'm glad that sent more work his way. Fingers crossed for your oven.

Alas, I'll be otherwise engaged tomorrow night, or I would join you.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that sent more work his way

I was relieved to see a review, and a review that I knew I could trust!

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Oh god I hope you don't need a new oven. I spent 9 months without one myself.

D:

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Sweet Jesus. The very idea sends me into a panic. I think I might make it nine hours without one...

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I got myself an electric skillet and a rice cooker (which also doubled as a vegetable steamer). It wasn't TOO bad but man it was not what I would want to do voluntarily ever again.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

I bought a new stove/oven last summer. ouch. I hope you don't need a new one!

That's a sassy coat!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope I don't need a new oven, either.

Re: the coat--INORITE?!?! It's gonna be beautiful!

[stuology.livejournal.com]

Appliances these days, seriously, they are wonderful and they suck.

My stove is the only one of my modern appliances that has behaved.

I am also voting for fixable!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Appliances these days, seriously, they are wonderful and they suck.

Engineered obsolescence makes me angry.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

And thank you for the "useful" ticky box on my review.