Our situation is as you describe - cabinet with ducting running through it. A replacement microwave can go as cheaply as about $250 to over $1,000. Not doing the latter for sure. Stove is gas, so in light of recent news high quality venting might be nice for whoever lives in this house next, but for us probably too little too late.
Perhaps I should be bitching about having to even think about this at this point in my life? The one thing that really sucks about this current micro being dead is that the over-the-range lights don’t work. I don’t think a range hood would solve that - though it’s been a long time since I’ve had one.
I object to that kind of fatalism! Your attitude should be that (a) you’re going to live forever, and (b) much of it will be in that house, so (c) you should make it as comfortable as possible for yourself.
They do indeed. Back in the day of incandescent lights, I had a problem with even low-wattage bulbs heating and deforming the plastic enclosure if left on too long. Thankfully, now with LEDs, I leave a 40-watt equivalent LED on in the exhaust hood 24x7. It functions as a sort of kitchen night light and allows me to do things like getting small snacks from the kitchen late at night without bothering to turn on the big ceiling lights.
And now, my rant. I just opened a new bottle of Barcardi Gold rum to have a little nightcap. It’s one of those big 1.75 liter bottles because I likes me a little rum on occasion and don’t like running out. Those big wide-mouth bottles have little plastic inserts so the rum comes out in a measured stream – about two seconds gives you a normal shot. The fucking Puerto Ricans who prepared this particular bottle of Bacardi forgot to put in the insert. I stress that this is a Big Bottle. The rum comes out like fucking Niagara Falls.
The only solution I can think of is to buy a normal-size bottle tomorrow (there’s no such thing as too much rum!) and use that. When it’s empty, refill it from the big one using a kitchen funnel. Fucking incompetents!
The over the range types cost a bit more because of the fan, light, etc. I don’t need or want another countertop one. And of course installation is another cost.
No idea how much installing a hood instead would cost. And maybe don’t want to know.
Okeydoke, martyg. If you don’t have ten minutes left in your life to listen to a few songs, I’m moving right along and not bothering you any more.
I’m honestly sorry if I can’t provide context to the readers of this thread without being cruel, but I’d rather not be cruel to someone who’s got so little time left. The future’s uncertain and the end is always near, after all.
There, I went and typed it. Might as well post it.
Well he said they were $30. You dang right I’d go back to gas station to return them if that’s where I bought them.
Wasn’t it a Publix? Isn’t that really a big box type store? I bet they’ll at least give @LSLGuy a gift/debit card. I’d try anyway.
My rant:
My birthday is soon…as I’m glad to be alive. I don’t like this one. Seems kinda like a weird milestone I don’t wanna walk past. No, I will not tell my age. So don’t ask. But I accept all gifts😉
Publix is a regional chain of ordinary grocery stores / supermarkets. Not big box, but not little cute corner markets either. And yes, they’re famous for their customer service.
Since I go there every couple of days anyhow, I set the used glasses & packaging aside for my next trip there. I also went back down to our building’s garage where I’d thrown away the receipt. Only a little bit of other people’s nasty trash had been dumped on top, so I was able to recover it with only a little Yecch! on it.
Went to Publix, told Big Tammy and Young Jessica about the problem including the shoplifter’s teeth marks all over the ear pieces. Young Jessica let out an Eeeeew! that could probably be heard at Beck’s house in AR. Of course they refunded my money back onto my card. I went to the shelf, there was one pair left, which I thoroughly inspected, then bought. Along with the other few things I went there for.
All’s well that ends well. I’m not sure if that make my rant a false alarm, or premature or what.
I still hope wolverines tear that asshole shoplifter to pieces.
So Walgreens has a mail-order option and I am going to see if I can get that to work. It seems like the option that takes the least amount of effort right now. So I am going to try that, and see how it goes. I’m not really sure yet how it works.
I’m hoping they have my ADHD meds in generic. They went generic a few months ago but it hasn’t been made available everywhere yet. So I need to fill my scrip right fucking now and if they don’t have generic I’ll be on the hook for $400. That’s in addition to the $100/month it costs me to have asthma.
Now that student loans are back in place, my husband’s student loan payment went up somehow, even though we’ve had a child since then. I’m not sure what the hell is up with that. Just add it to the pile of expenses coming our way.
My Wife and I live a little remote, and get a shit ton of snow. Our heat is propane (and the sun). The guy that delivers the propane suggested getting another 500 gallon tank, and they would just hook together to make 1000 gal. Great solution. Would not need to worry about a winter propane delivery. It would make it easier on everyone.
Propane company is balking at this idea because I only have 2 propane appliances. One a water heater to heat floors, the other a free standing stove used for heat. They don’t want to do it because it’s ‘policy’. “You have to have more than 2 propane appliances for 1000 gallons of storage” Can it be done? Easy peasy. THEIR DRIVER recommended it. I’m trying to help him out.
Can they explain why that’s the policy, um, no.
So back to the phone tree I go to explain this whole thing again to someone in Texas or Oregon or whoever picks up the phone.
Why it makes a damn bit of difference to them that I will actually be saving them money (fewer deliveries) is beyond me.
This mini rant is directed at the guy who took over fifteen minutes to put air in his tires at the gas station yesterday. (He was already there when I pulled up, and I got tired of waiting after fifteen minutes and left, so who knows how long it actually took him.)
I couldn’t see exactly what he was doing because there was another vehicle parked between us and I could only try to watch through the other vehicle’s windows, but jeebus if it takes you that long to air up your tires, go to a goddamn tire shop already and make room for those of us who know what they’re doing!
