Oh no, sorry to hear it! My 40-year-old furnace also died earlier this year in the cold. Funny how they never seem to die in the summer. (just kidding)
My oven is still dead. My handyman friend may be able to look at it this week. The broiler works, at least. And the toaster oven. But no prime rib or roast goose this week.
Sounds like a lot of stories on Not Always Right.
My usual response to something like this is, “Your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency.”
(Unless it’s my boss with an urgent customer need, in which case, fuck me, it’s my emergency. Luckily that very, very rarely happens in my line of work.)
Do you have a charcoal or gas grill? You can do both prime rib and roast goose on either of those. Also baked potatoes and roasted corn on the cob…
I walk my dog in a greenspace behind my house. It’s about a .75 mile corridor, about 100 yards across, lined with fences the entire way, making it perfect to take Luna where she can explore unleashed.
One day, we go out and I’m, for some reason, chewing gum. So I spit it out somewhere on my walk.
The next day, Luna is sniffing for deer, raccoons, etc, and I decide to sit down and bang out a text.
And I sat on the same fucking piece of gum.
Oh. And there’s a new rule. You can’t post about your pets without a corresponding picture. 
So here you go:
The broiler element should be able to get the oven up to temperature, so if you cook either of those in a covered pan of some sort (I’m no cook, so apologies if that is not done) I’d think you could still cook them without overly browning/burning the top.
I get around that rule by making my pet my userpic. 
You’d think so, right? But it took 3 hours to cook off some food I’d already prepped and didn’t want to go to waste. The oven temp never exceeded 225F in all that time except directly beneath the broiler flame (where it had to be carefully monitored as it burned the food). I can broil flat-ish vegetables, but no actual baking/roasting unless I want to risk ruining it. I hadn’t planned on roasting a goose or prime rib anyway, although if someone happened to offer me one I’d rig something up…
I was having the same issue with Twin Ridge Roasters pods. I called their customer service number, and they sent me a little doohickey that spoofs the Keurig into thinking it’s a K-cup.
Okay now that’s really odd because I’m getting the strips every day. They’re archived on the ArcaMax site if you want to read them.
My 80 something mother flew out for a visit a month ago and its been great. Her return flight to Idaho is scheduled for the 26th because she was scheduled to have some skin cancer removed on 1/11. I didn’t want her to go because now is not a good time for someone her age to be flying from Arizona to Idaho.
She was of course worried about her skin cancer procedure. I thought she should get a medical opinion from one of her doctors about traveling now or rescheduling for a month later.
We called her surgeon, doctor was out of the office, but the chirpy young lady who answered the phone said she was sure it was just fine. I didn’t like that answer, so we called her dermatologist’s office because they were the ones who had her schedule the procedure.
The chirpy young lady who answered there also thought it was just fine for Mom to fly back for her surgery as well as poo-pooing any COVID concerns, so I asked for her full name and medical conditionals in case they were needed for the malpractice suit if mom died because of her advice. She transferred us to her manager who had the PA call us back.
Mom has rescheduled her flight. I am very angry that untrained receptionists would rather advise an elderly woman to travel during a COVID surge instead of actually doing their job and asking someone medically trained to look at mom’s chart and give an informed opinion.
Luna is just about too adorable to be believed. Dang!
Mine died about 6 weeks ago and will cost $5000 to replace, so it’s space heaters til I can pull that together-unexpectedly ‘retired’ by injury and so that isn’t so easy as it would have been 2 winters ago. The building and safety codes changed in my city since the dead one was installed and now the chimney here can not be used to vent the gas furnace, instead a high-efficiency (read:much higher cost) furnace must be installed and new venting installed other than through the existing chimney. Which would be funnier if I hadn’t spent $1,000 this summer on repointing the brick and installing a custom chimney cap on the chimney that will now never be in use again as a chimney. Grrr…
Adulthood is very overrated.
Instead of a Christmas goose or prime rib, go for deluxe, gourmet take-out Chinese food. You can get some great duck at least and support a local business in one fell swoop. The Chinese (and Vietnamese) restaurants near me are all open on Christmas and New Year’s. Once a year I give myself permission to go wild with the dim sum.
I have to laugh because my tears would freeze to my face. The oven here still works and I have stood in front to warm my self. If I catch on fire there is a handy snowbank just outside.
I had 5 estimates. They varied by $2500. One outfit said that code now required changes including a new chimney liner. The others said that wasn’t required for a replacement. Gets lots of estimates.
Interesting. This is exactly what I was told. I will look into getting several more estimates.
Thanks.
This has been eating away at me all day. Hurting her hand on a 2-year-old for something they can’t control is sick. Can you imagine how hard she had to spank him to hurt her hand?? PLEASE report her. She’s dangerous. It’s only a matter of time before she puts him in the hospital or worse. If you know this and don’t act, then who will? Who will help her son?
Hey, hey hey! We’re supposed to be getting all pissed off, outraged and grouchy here and you post a super cute pet picture? What do you think you’re doing? Wanna get reported for thread shitting?
Later on you mention a broiler “flame”, so I take it this is a gas stove. If so, never mind – I don’t know anything about fixing gas ovens. But if it’s electric, oven element replacement is usually an easy do-it-yourself job – just remember to turn off the circuit breaker at the breaker panel! You may even be able to get a generic element at Home Depot, but it’s better to get an exact replacement from an appliance parts shop. I’ve replaced two of them with no problem. The current stove definitely required an exact replacement part for that model.
Yeah, that’s fun. My oven works, it’s just that it doesn’t turn off. It preheats, then the element just stays on until the oven shuts down from overheating and I have to let it cool and reset the breakers.
Obviously don’t use it much, as it’s a fire hazard like that. The broiler is fine, and there have been a few times that I’ve gone ahead and used it if I’m just heating something up that won’t take so long and I can stay in the kitchen to monitor.
Otherwise it’s up to my dinky toaster oven, which isn’t too bad, at least it has a convection setting, unlike my wall oven.
Oh, and it’s a wall oven, like 3/4’th size of a normal oven, so it actually costs 1.5x to replace.
Hubs ordered a replacement for our oven online. Counting shipping, our oven was down for 6 days.
Being an impatient sort myself, and living within driving distance of a great big city, I did a bit of driving in order to pick up the exact replacement oven element right away. But failing that, many of those online appliance parts suppliers are wonderful and have fast shipment. I had the handle assembly on my fairly old dishwasher fall apart a few years ago and got an exact replacement in just a few days. I was almost convinced I’d have to get a new dishwasher before I found just the part that I needed! 
Many of these repairs are surprisingly easy. Given the right part, usually all you need is (a) a screwdriver, or some similar basic implement, and (b) knowing how NOT to get electrocuted. Part (b) tends to be fairly important.