So, I just had to go buy a goddamned oven. Regular readers will recall that my soon-to-be former oven shit the bed in the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning, causing me to have to shuttle a turkey, rolls, etc., to other kitchens to cook before my 14 guests arrived. After Thanksgiving, we were able to replace a control panel part and get it operational again. But this week, it took another crap.
We talked to several folks in appliance parts warehouses, but no one could ship the needed part to us quickly enough to have the oven operational by this weekend, and since we have scads of people coming over for dinner Christmas Eve and then again on Christmas Day, this was a problem. Plus, the unanimous opinion of the parts professionals we spoke to was this: Samsung appliances are garbage.
I tried to find a not-Samsung oven online at a local place to pick up ourselves, but that turns out to be impossible since no one actually keeps many ovens onsite. I had to drive into town, select an oven in person and pay for it, which I did. We’ll pick it up this evening.
I’m glad I was able to find a replacement, but I’m disgruntled about the whole process and that we’ve had to shell out nearly a thousand bucks for an oven, especially this time of year. But on the bright side, at least the old oven crapped out a few days before the holiday instead of on Christmas Eve.
We did not watch the news yesterday because we figured it would be all about Trump’s “victory” on taxes, and who needs to see that puffed-up buffoon smirking on TV? But I saw the clip below on Twitter earlier, and I’m posting it here because it’s just unbelievably horrid:
This Mike Pence "prayer" of thanks to Trump is excruciatingly, stomach-churningly uncomfortable to watch. The ritual submission and exaltation is nearly pornographic. This is not America. pic.twitter.com/FN6y2X2K73
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) December 20, 2017
If Trump looks like he’s getting a tuggie under the conference table in the screen grab, that’s because he IS — from Pence. It’s just so gross and awful. I’m sharing it in the same spirit I’d point out a particularly revolting bug flailing around in a pool of a diseased hyena’s diarrhea. You’re welcome!
Open thread.