I am back from the jewel of Monroe County. Once again, this favorite grandson made his grandmother ecstatic.
It was a nice, quiet holiday, just myself, my grandmother, and her new stove. It's a nice stove but it's electronic. I hate electronic stoves.
It's just plain un-American to push buttons when twisting a knob worked just fine before.
Wait, what am I talking about. Pushing buttons is very American.
Anyway, I managed to teach my grandmother how to set the temperature & clock. The timer, on the other hand, I recommended she ignore that feature since it aggravated her arthritis.
Yes, I did indeed expose my grandmother to my Allan Sherman collection.
She was most delighted.
It's a given I returned to Wixom with more stuff than I left with. I'm proud to be a packrat from a long line of packrats. Besides, it's best to keep such heirlooms in the family. I have no idea where I'm going to put the toaster oven/rotisserie, but at least it stayed in the family. The cheese, apples, level, pipe wrenches, books, and LPs all have their places, but that oven? Hmm...maybe I'll put it on top of the microwave I use as a clock...
That also begs the question where am I going to put the box it's coming in? It's a good box. Older than my father, but still good.
Now for some dinner. Leftover steak 'n' taters it is!
{added at update}
Regardless of all my research, I still ended up paying $75 for parking. This will teach me to get to the airport earlier.
It was a nice, quiet holiday, just myself, my grandmother, and her new stove. It's a nice stove but it's electronic. I hate electronic stoves.
It's just plain un-American to push buttons when twisting a knob worked just fine before.
Wait, what am I talking about. Pushing buttons is very American.
Anyway, I managed to teach my grandmother how to set the temperature & clock. The timer, on the other hand, I recommended she ignore that feature since it aggravated her arthritis.
Yes, I did indeed expose my grandmother to my Allan Sherman collection.
She was most delighted.
It's a given I returned to Wixom with more stuff than I left with. I'm proud to be a packrat from a long line of packrats. Besides, it's best to keep such heirlooms in the family. I have no idea where I'm going to put the toaster oven/rotisserie, but at least it stayed in the family. The cheese, apples, level, pipe wrenches, books, and LPs all have their places, but that oven? Hmm...maybe I'll put it on top of the microwave I use as a clock...
That also begs the question where am I going to put the box it's coming in? It's a good box. Older than my father, but still good.
Now for some dinner. Leftover steak 'n' taters it is!
{added at update}
Regardless of all my research, I still ended up paying $75 for parking. This will teach me to get to the airport earlier.
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Heart of Darkness is on my "to read" list for the month between semesters.
The used DVD store in town had a couple copies of the '32 version for sale, I bought one of those. I've owned the DePalma version for awhile now.
The museum is doing Apocalypse Now next weekend, I think I am skipping it. I can appreciate that it is a good movie, but I just don't think of it as an entertaining movie.
Speaking of the museum....Duck Soup is this weekend.