Mini-Month Mini-Rants (Feb 2026)

IMO, that’s worthy of a rant right there.

I strongly disagree. I’m with Francis


As for me, I got home last night, unloaded the car (a couple of trips) & then settle in & realize I’m cold. Nope, it’s not from being outside, the house is cold. Walk over to the thermostat & it’s 57° inside! Then I notice that it states that the battery is low. I pull the battery holder out (2 AA) but don’t have any more good ones in the house (I have some brand new ones that have leaked) so I pull them out & put them back in & that doesn’t seem to do it, either…then the lightbulb goes off inside my head. I go down to the basement & fix it in about 20 secs. I have a High Efficiency heater that needs a lot of air to work. A leaf got sucked in & is blocking part of the air inflow at the plastic filter - pop out tube, remove leaf, replace tube. The heater came on quickly after that but of course, took a bit to heat the house up to the (relatively low 68° that it was set for).
Then I made a steak under the broiler for dinner. Of course, when I was taking it out, I dropped it. Nope, it did not hit the floor, it bounced off a rack, hit the door, & landed on the floor of the oven. I is not stupid, I put the oven mitt one when I grabbed a paper towel to clean up the juices I didn’t get burned, but of course not all of it was on the paper towels, which required the mitts needing to be laundered.