Kevin's musings

The new microwave rocks so far. It has a ‘reheat’ button. You put your
leftovers in it, press reheat and it turns on. According to the
manual, it senses for steam. Once it detects steam and a rate
for it, it gives you a countdown till it’s reheated on the
display. I used it tonight and it worked great. Ran for a bit,
then gave me around a 30 second countdown until it was done. I
ate some of it, and then reheated it again and it gave me about
a 15 second countdown the second time (there was about 1/2 as
much then). I also cleaned out my old microwave and toaster oven
and took them out of the kitchen. I need to look for some place
I can donate them to. They are both old, but work ok.

Was thinking of having a nice holiday cocktail party sometime. Either
this coming weekend or the following one. Anyone who might come
to such a thing have an opinion on date for it?

Well, “tomorrow morning” apparently means about 1:30pm. The guy showed
up and got to work. First thing was to find the breaker for the
hood in the kitchen. This meant turning off various ones until
it was off. The UPS on my lovely linux firewall machine that has
been up for about 400 days worked fine and went over to battery
when it lost power, but then when power came back it kept on
going on battery. I didn’t think it was the UPS with the
firewall, so I power cycled it. Then I got to spend the next bit
wondering why I couldn’t go anywere on the net because the
firewall wasn’t up. 🙁 Finally got it all set… but what a
pain.