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My epiphany: I have cluelessly, for the past decade, favored increments mostly ending in 5: 55 seconds, 45 seconds, etc. and apparently, 5 seconds is the time it takes for the warming platter in my microware to make a ohe-half spin. So, place mug in microwave at front, enter 25 seconds, 2&1/2 spins later the warmed mugs awaits me in the back of the microwave.
Give me credit: At least I didn't take to starting off placing the mug in the back 'as a remedy'.
Doh!
Now, X0 seconds later, the mug conveniently comes to rest at the front of the microwave.
This is little things for little minds day.
Come celebrate the moments when you realized just how clueless you've been about the source of a pet peeve or a little annoyance.
Who knows? You may just happen to relieve someone else of their burden of grief. ;-)
Clueless: My laptop has a cd drive which will NOT read cds made by my desktop cd-rw (I don't know why *shrug*). So I've resorted to a variety of painful ways to get stuff from one box to the other, including but not limited to using winzip to create compressed archives copied to multiple floppies; and uploading the info to webspace then downloading on the laptop (because I'm not yet doing a network, which I suppose would have been the MOST logical solution.)
Epiphany: just yesterday, it finally occurred to me that I have sitting in my pen mug a 512meg jump drive, and my laptop has a perfectly usable USB port....
*sigh*
I always put my mug into the middle of the plate. And guess what - when I open the mircowave it's still in the middle!
Unless, of course, the ants have moved your cup [webmasterworld.com]...
So if you put "older food" in the middle ..you just warm over your bacteria as opposed to kill them ...
So, I thought, "Ah, ha, the battery is low - better put the light on for a few hours to ensure it's recharged." No more "chirping".
Next day, I hear the same noise again. Ok, thinks I, "perhaps the battery is really run down thus it needs recharging for the full eight hours" - did this.
Late at night, when lying in bed, "Chirp..!" This goes on at roughly one minute intervals. Eventually I get to sleep.
I should tell you that I live in a flat and the smoke detector is fitted in the light socket directly outside my computer room and eventually, after about a week it occurs to me that I never hear it "chirp" when I'm using my mac. However, go away from it and, when your back is turned...
"Chirp!"
Ok, so I check the manual and this suggests that it may be dusty and thus needs cleaning. "Ah! this must be the problem", says I, confidently believing the solution had been found.
The thing is duly cleaned. However, as soon as I'm in the main bedroom off it goes again. And to add to this, every night when I'm in bed, there it goes, "chirp", for every minute of every hour.
A few more days later I pause to consider again that when I'm by my computer, or in the kitchen, it doesn't make even a squeak! It doesn't make any sense to me - I'm puzzled.
One night, just last week, enough becomes enough. I decide to take it down to see what happens. Of course, I come to realise that the battery is fully charged so it is still 'live'.
Having removed it I sneak back into bed, ever hopeful nonetheless.
"Chirp!"
Right, that's it, it's going back into it's box, which at least will deaden the sound. Again, as soon as I move into the bedroom and away from it the damn thing goes at it again, and just as loud.
I get up once more and stand over it, thinking that it's next stop will be on the ground, four floors below, and just daring it to "chirp" at me directly - if it's brave enough! Nothing.
Foolishly thinking it may have, at long last, stopped, off I go to bed once more.
You've guessed it; "Chirp!"
Right, so I decide to apply psychology to this little inanimate thing! If it won't make a sound when I'm next to it I'll put it on my bedside cabinet - that'll fix it!
This done, back into bed I get. But, just a minute later, "Chirp!"
But hang on - where did that "Chirp" come from?
Now it's dawned on me - at last! For goodness sake - I don't believe it! The "Chirp" didn't come from MY alarm, but from my neighbours living room, which is directly next to my bedroom!
Stupid or what...?
Syzygy
[edited by: Syzygy at 6:16 pm (utc) on Oct. 26, 2004]
Thank you.
When I related this to a friend, she asked "Why didn't you just pop the trunk lid with the lever inside the car?".
D'oh!
Hey, your immune system needs exercise too, ya know. ;)
keys in my trunk
<bad musician joke>
What happened when the bass player locked his keys in the car?
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I took two hours to break in and resuce the drummer from the back seat.
</bad musician joke>
