Good Thing I Don’t Often Cook Anymore, I Guess

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A while back my garbage disposal stopped working.
In response, I tried the little “jambreaker” thing on the bottom and hit the reset button and it started working.
A while later, it stopped again.  Did the same thing, and it continued to work for a while.
Rinse and repeat, multiple times.
Finally, a few weeks ago, it refused to start working again despite my best efforts.
I wasn’t that concerned about it, except for the fact that it was causing the sink to drain very slowly.
So I decided to replace it, but, having a fear of electricity, and knowing that Scott had recent experience in garbage disposal repair, I asked for his assistance in replacing it sometime on one of our movie nights.
And so on Thursday on my way home from work I stopped at Home Depot and purchased a new disposal.
As an aside, I had the strangest retail experience ever in that the guy working there was trying very hard to get me to buy the cheapest, builder grade unit available, and would barely even acknowledge the existence of the more expensive units.
After he left, I ignored his insistence that I go cheap and bought the mid-priced one I was actually interested in getting even before I went there.
Shortly after I got home, Scott arrived much sooner than expected, and as I had mistimed the “future date” pizza delivery, we set to work on the replacement.
Amazingly, we found the correct circuit breaker on the first attempt, and despite a few struggles with the unwieldiness of the garbage disposal, we soon had it installed and up and running with relatively little trouble.  Naturally that made us both suspicious.
Sometime after Scott left for the evening, I noticed that there did appear to be a minor leak where the drain trap joined with the drain pipe.  I attempted to resolve this by tightening the fitting…which led to the fitting actually falling apart.
Still, it wasn’t a huge deal, as, being close to bedtime, I had no real need to use the kitchen sink before getting home from work the next day, at which point I had stopped at Home Depot again and bought the appropriate replacements, and was able to properly set up a watertight seal in the connection.
So, yay.
However, it’s worth noting that, after the installation of the new garbage disposal, I went out to the circuit breaker to turn the power to it back on, and I had, in not knowing which one Scott had shut off, inadvertently switched off the breaker for the electric range.  We soon corrected that error, and I don’t know if this is related or not, but this morning I noticed that the display for the range was completely blank and that it appeared to be completely without power.  No oven light, burners wouldn’t turn on, etc..
Tripping the breaker again, multiple times, made no difference.
As it stands, I no longer have a working oven, and I’m uncertain as to where the problem lies.  Is it the range itself, or is it a problem with the wiring of the circuit?
Because it’s a “drop-in” range sitting on a platform, I wasn’t sure how to slide it out to look behind it to find the outlet it’s plugged into.  Eventually I found where it was screwed into the countertop and was able to slide it out to see that it’s not actually plugged into an outlet, it’s actually hardwired via a junction box.
And now I’m stymied.  I have no way of testing whether or not the range itself is broken, as I can’t simply try plugging it into another outlet, and, as previously mentioned, I fear electricity, so I have no intention of messing with the wiring.
So what do I do?  Buy a new range, which I want to do anyway, as the current one is, per the handwritten note on the manual for it, over fifteen years old, only to find that I still have no power to it?  Call an electrician and find out that there are all kinds of other, insanely expensive problems* with my wiring that need to be addressed?
Do I use this as the impetus to finally get around to remodeling my kitchen, as I’ve wanted to do for several years now, but probably can’t afford to do?
I had been planning to see about having one of those Owens Corning sunrooms built onto my patio, which would address the concerns I have there with my leaking patio roof (which is a major concern tied to my house’s wiring, since all of the wires run into the house along a rafter attached to that leaking roof), but I wasn’t even sure if I could afford that.
So…?

*For example, whatever it is that led to the burned out outlet in the upstairs guest bathroom.

Not Quite THAT In Love With It...

[postlink] https://drotesi-miey.blogspot.com/2012/03/not-quite-that-in-love-with-it.html[/postlink] Over the weekend, inspired by seeing the movie last week with Scott, I picked up a volume reprinting the entire run of the old Marvel John Carter of Mars series.


Some of the issues feature pencils by the legendary Gil Kane, with inks by Ruby Nebres.
It is - especially in the black and white format -  stunningly gorgeous work:









Love it.



Admittedly, it suffers a little from the shortcomings of the printing technology and paper stock of the 1970s, but even so, I have to say that I love it.


Now, I don't love it so much that I'd marry it.
I mean, if we were talking about the beautiful results of a well-suited penciller and inker team that I would marry, we'd have to be talking about John Byrne and Terry Austin, or, if their art wouldn't have me, George Perez and Jerry Ordway.


But I have to say there's a good chance that I could, if I were in a relationship with pencil and ink art, be tempted to cheat with the art of Kane and Nebres...

alicia witt Beautiful wallpapers collection

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The World Isn't Ready

[postlink] https://drotesi-miey.blogspot.com/2012/03/the-world-isn-ready.html[/postlink] I went clothes shopping the other day, and as I wandered through the menswear section I found myself continually looking like this:



ಠ_ಠ



This was in part because I just generally hate buying clothes - it's money that could be better spent on comics or gadgets - but mostly because my sensibilities were offended by the gaudy array of pastels and otherwise garish colors, and the near-impossibility of finding anything my size that even approached being acceptable.

At one point I found myself completely stopped in my tracks by the sight of red pants.

Red.

Pants.

Unless you're a member of a Loverboy tribute band - and you're wearing them for a paying gig - I can't see any earthly reason why any man would ever buy red pants.

On Monday I was telling Dan about this, and he suggested that I should have bought them.

I countered that wearing the pants would require some additional wardrobe adjustments and equally dodgy sartorial choices:






Yes, the power of the pants would make me blond again.


Somehow I just don't think the world is ready for it.

Pay Attention, Arms And Torso

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It was a beautiful day today, with temperatures in the upper 70s, following on the heels of several unseasonably warm days. (Yesterday wasn’t so great compared to the rest of the week, but for mid-March, it wasn’t bad at all.)
As a result, it was considerably warmer in my house today than it’s been for quite some time, so, after I went out and did my usual Saturday morning things, I came home and changed out of my out in the world clothes and into my around the house clothes, and I opted to put on a pair of shorts.
While I was on the patio smoking a cigarette, I happened to catch my reflection in the window of the back door, and thought, “Huh.  My legs are ripped.”
I guess it really shouldn’t come as a surprise, given how many hours I spend each week trudging along on the elliptical with the resistance maxed out, but today was the first time I actually looked at my legs in a while, so it was a bit of a revelation.
In any case, as I stood there turning and flexing and studying my reflection, I said, “Hey arms and torso, see what legs have done?  I want you to do that.”
I don’t think they were paying attention, though.
Of course, the fact of the matter is that I don’t actually work them quite so hard as I work my legs, but honestly, it’s because they won’t let me.  I mean, my legs complain a little about all of the trudging, but they don’t just flat-out give up the way my arms and my core do, and while my legs actually get stronger and defined, the muscles of my upper body seem to get wimpier.
*Sigh*

American actress Alicia Silverstone Beautiful pictures

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Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress, author, and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless (1995) and her portrayal of Batgirl in Batman & Robin (1997). Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend, rock musician (S.T.U.N.) and basketball coach Christopher Jarecki, in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe, on June 11, 2005. After meeting outside a movie theater in 1997, the couple dated for eight years prior to their marriage. They got engaged about a year before their marriage and Jarecki presented Silverstone with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother. She intends to have children in the future.


















Musical Conversations

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As many people would likely tell you, I don’t talk a lot.  In fact, I would say that’s what most people would say about me if pressed to come up with something, anything, to say about me.   That or some variation – “He’s really quiet” “He seems shy” “Does he have a pulse?” “Who?” – would be the go-to response.
Evidently it’s something of a defining characteristic*, or at least so I’ve gathered.
And it’s true.  Compared to most people, I don’t talk a lot.
There are, of course, many reasons for that, but that’s not what this is about.
While, in general, I don’t talk a lot to people, I do spend a fair amount of time talking to inanimate objects, abstract concepts, hypothetical people, and the singers of the songs I listen to at home or when I’m driving to work.
Here are some examples of that last one.

Garbage:  Come back to my house, stick a stone in your mouth…
Me:  …I…no thank you?

Alice In Chains:  What’s the difference?  I’ll die in this sick world of mine….
Me:  *Sigh*  You sure did, Layne.  You sure did.

Dido:  Take my hand, and if I’m lying to you…
Me:  “If,” Dido?

Liz Phair:  I bet you fall in bed too easily with the beautiful girls who are shyly brave…
Me:  Wow, you’ve really got my number, Liz.  That’s classic me.

Rob Zombie:  How can I make you understand?
Me:  Well, Rob, you might put a little more thought into your actual lyrics.

Dido:  See you when you’re forty, lost and all alone…
Me:  Go fuck yourself, Dido.

*It’s either that or a complete lack of any defining or noteworthy characteristics whatsoever.

It’s Not As Uncertain As Investing In The Stock Market

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Me:  So I’ve started using “hair tonic,” and I’m noticing the development of my incipient “Reagan Neck” more and more every day.  I should find out if they still make Geritol.  Or at least start taking Centrum Silver.
Dan:  Do you really worry about it?
Me:  My Reagan Neck?  Well, I don’t worry about it, but I do find it distressing.
Dan:  Not your neck vagina, just getting older in general and planning for retirement.
Me:  I have a retirement plan:  I’ll have a heart attack and die alone.  More specifically, I’ll have a heart attack at the top of the stairs at home, fall down the stairs and break my neck, and lie in a crumpled heap at the bottom of them, paralyzed and slowly dying over the course of days, and it will take a week before anyone notices.
Dan:  At least you have a plan.
Me:   Oh, you have to these days.

Americam actress Alexis Dziena Beautiful pictures

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Date of Birth:
July 8, 1984
Birth Place:
City of New York, New York
















 
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