Minutiae

[resonant]

Remember this kid? The one who filled paper cones with 'nutmeggan treats' for Christmas?

Yeah, this kid starts Driver's Ed tomorrow.

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Our refrigerator is not refrigerating, possibly since Friday. (We were down in Spousetown all weekend.) I'm much more cheerful about this than you might expect -- because it's the landlord's responsibility to fix or replace it.

Tonight I finally gave in and cleaned it out, and discovered that everything's texture had been transformed in the most disgusting way possible: the milk had turned to yogurt, the yogurt to salad, and the salad to soup.

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Last Sunday someone fainted at the spouse's church. I've seen this happen before (hot weather, thought-she-was-over-that-virus) and am always impressed by how calm and competent congregations are.

This time, though, I was privy to something that may happen every time: the pastor coming down to whisper to his wife, "Do you have any idea what I'm supposed to do now?"

(Intercessory prayer. It's always a good time for intercessory prayer.)

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[travels_in_time]

Throw a blanket over her legs and proclaim loudly that she's been slain in the Spirit.

...oh, dear, is my Evangelical background showing again?

[resonant]

I went to a picnic yesterday with lots of church leaders, and there was actually an extended discussion about how a person might distinguish between someone slain in the Spirit and someone needing medical attention.

These were all chilly WASP protestants, so nobody actually had any direct experience to call upon.

[out_there]

This time, though, I was privy to something that may happen every time: the pastor coming down to whisper to his wife, "Do you have any idea what I'm supposed to do now?"

Hee!

That's exactly where my background as a Catholic says well, it's mass. You go on to the next part of the service, clearly. The format and structure isn't going to change for anything short of an explosion. (I hope. I hope there would be a change then, but I'm sure some churches would just pause to make sure everyone moved seats and keep going from the last reading.)

[shrewreader]

Our back fridge did the same thing this summer. The George, who exists to Do Things we can't quite figure out, suggested 24 hours unplugged, standing open (we used the ever-useful hockey stick to prop the doors open), as it was his experience (of all of 26 years) that clogs were often responsible for such behaviors.

We let it stand when all cooling ceased.

Lo, 24 hours later, the ice clog had melted, and back fridge got back to trying to freeze our milk solid.

Well worth the experiment before arrival of replacement fridge, for you may get a backup fridge out of it.

[resonant]

It was the first time in my life I'd ever heard, or imagined, anyone saying, "Well, we can't sing, because then the paramedics won't be able to hear each other talking."

[resonant]

The weirdest thing is that the freezer is still doing just fine! I'm going to be kind of annoyed if it turns out that taking everything out of it fixes all its problems ...

[out_there]

Hee!

[azurelunatic]

I appreciate the good sense of this comment.

[jesse_the_k]

That's a busy week, and I hope that kid isn't driving your car.

[ snip ] discovered that everything's texture had been transformed in the most disgusting way possible: the milk had turned to yogurt, the yogurt to salad, and the salad to soup.

is horrible to experience but beautifully put. I hope you'll put it in a fiction somewhere.

[resonant]

The repair guy says the defrost timer was broken. So because the freezer stayed cold, and didn't warm up on schedule, the refrigerator got warm. OK, universe, enough paradoxes in the kitchen.

[exceptinsects]

So do you still fill the apple-tree cones with grass and nutmeggan treats every year?