Too Cold For You?
UPDATE: We had a tornado blow through the New Orleans area last night that did a lot of damage but I’m fine, it didn’t hit us directly. It passed about 5 miles away, the sound of the winds woke me up about 3am, very spooky! We now return you to the regularly scheduled post…
I’ve noticed a lot of people complaining about the deep freeze going on around most of the country, but not here! It has been so warm here lately that more often than not I’m running the A/C just to stay cool. Being that It’s January and February, that sucks! Big ones! I hope that doesn’t mean we’re going to have a hotter than usual spring and summer ahead. I would rather be cool than hot, given the choice.
The old microwave oven, not really that old, unless you consider 5 yrs as “old” took a dump last week and refused to work. It was a pretty nice model, but it got replaced with a new one that had a burning problem, and I don’t mean the food. It smelled like the innards were smoldering, like an electrical fire was going to break out at any minute. I’m not going to mention the brand name (Panasonic) but after a few days, it went back to the store for a different brand after it was realized that the acrid burning smell was getting worse. I hate having to stand by with a fire extinguisher when ever I nuke something, don’t you?
The new one features some cool whiz-bang controls and does a great job, you can start this stainless-steel clad beauty up with one button push, as opposed to two on the old one. Yeah, I can just imagine the lectures… “When I was a kid, we used to have to push TWO buttons on our microwaves to heat things up. You kids today only have to push ONE. You don’t know what hard work is!!”
I had a pretty nice, older Kenwood home stereo system for sale in the local paper last week. It was a receiver, 5 disc CD player and a double cassette recorder, yeah that’s how old it was, freakin’ cassettes. But it had remote control and it was all in awesome condition, and looked beautiful, sold the whole lot for $70. I was shocked when I learned that the girl that bought it didn’t give a rats ass whether it worked or not. Just so long as it had a handsome face. It was going to become part of a movie set and wasn’t even going to be plugged in. Yeah, maybe my old stereo system is gonna be famous! Maybe win an Oscar for best movie prop or sumshit, who knows? At least it can’t give a long winded speech… I’ll keep you guys posted…
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen lately, a carbon-monoxide detector with a snooze button…
Like the new template? It’s one of my creations called “Harley Grafitti” and it’s a free download over at my “Free Blogger Skins” web site, yeah I give this shite away. The site has become pretty popular, get’s thousands of hits daily which is pretty cool. I just thought it would be different to use one of my own freebies. LOL
The Scientific Blogging community web site is doing pretty good. It’s still in beta phase but it already has some world class, famous scientific “egg head” types writing articles. Good stuff too, these guy are frikkin’ schmart! I’m the official “design manager” and an admin over there. Yeah, I get to lord over a bunch of scientists. Hey! I don’t like that article… “delete” LOL No, not really. I did the entire site design and layout. Cool huh? Got a hankering for some killer science, articles about global warming? Get over there and “bone” up. You can also create a personal account and get your own free science blog on the site as a columnist. How cool is that? The articles must be about science, although there is a “humor” category under “Culture”.
Hope you guys are havin’ a butt-kickin’ weekend! =) Stay warm, or cool, or whatever…
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What a great post! You got us all caught up. I wonder why it’s warm over there and cold over here. We’re not that far from you and it’s been a cold winter for us. By the way, I drastically altered the design you did for me a couple of years ago. I’ll get you to do a real one for me in a couple of months when I get tired of it. Peace!!
I guess “Smokin’!” isn’t always a good thang
Talk about power on the Science Blog! You can alter their universe with one small click! Is that cool or what???
*smirks*
Warm here too. Crazy microwave story, and scary too. Carbon monoxide and snooze?? crazy.
Have a great rest of the weekend!
OK, definitely funny on the snooze.
How do you get your pictures to open in a different page. I know I have done it with my links, but is that the same way i do it with my photos?
Like the template. Very cool.
I’d love to swap with you. I’m quite tired of freezing my ass off up here. Though luckily we don’t have all the snow they’re getting just east of here. Like 120 inches in a week. That’s totally insane.
that microwave you had sounds absolutely terrifying…lol i’m glad you took it back!
and the snooze on the carbon monoxide alarm is hysterical!
snooze on the carbon monoxide alert? crazy.
I have a relic of a microwave, which is probably radio-activating my entire house, but I refuse to part with it until it dies. It’s big, and you can’t find big microwaves anymore.
Hope you are feeling better Se7 honey.
LOL Make sure you don’t put it close to your napping place!
Nice Template and I’m turning Aimee onto that science blog…she’ll get a kick out of that!
Wow! The Scientific Blogging site is very, er, professional! Excellent work! I think it might be fun to follow a bunch of blogging scientists!
Mostly, Se7en, I just want to make sure you’re okay after those nasty storms that rolled through overnight. I don’t know what part of town you’re in but I’m watching WDSU online and HOLY SHIT! My boy called earlier and he’s fine Uptown. No classes at LoyNO this morning. Take care.
LOL, I had a picture of you standing by the microwave with a fire extinguisher in my head.
Great post.
se7en,
That’s a great visual. “Got the fire extinguisher, Honey? I need to defrost some chicken.” LOL.
It’s pretty cold where I am. Yesterday and last night dumped 31 inches of snow on us. Our county had to declare a State of Emergency. Only emergency traffic is allowed on the roads until tomorrow morning. Gah!
Sandy
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Hey you! I saw that rough weather & tornado that was down your way the other day. Hope you are fine & came through unscathed.
What is it with Louisiana and the lousy weather you folks have been subjected to for the past couple years?
I can’t complain too loudly about our winter this year but all the ice on the ground right now is downright hazardous! I almost fell twice just going the car and probably looked none too graceful keeping myself upright!
Like the new look here – very cool indeed!
Here where I live there is a dark an white winter going on.
Lovely!
I’m glad you’re okay! The weather’s been a bit crazy here lately. We had a Nor’Easter on V-Day, and it’s been rather chilly since! Take care of yourself!
You think YOUR stereo is old? MINE has a cassette player, record player, and no CD player… I have a ONE-CD player wired into it.
The new look is very cool.
I couldn’t imagine waking to the sound of a tornado. Scary.
After a warm January, it is very “normal” here, meaning it is cold. We may be the only place in the country where normal weather is occurring. Warm was better….