Thanks, Sox.

My mother gave me a ride to the T, but it was raining even harder when I got out! Luckily, I live one block from the station.

In my head, I'm totally walking to and from my parents', but it was too hot earlier and too raining just now.

Holy crap, I forgot how fast a gas stove heats up and cools down, after 2.5 years with electric.

I miss a gas stove so much. We have one of the electric ones with the flat top, and I hate it.

We had a big thunderstorm with lightning and wind, and we're the only people on the block with power now. For some reason, we're the only house attached to another grid (the one behind us). It's been about three hours now, and I'm beginning to feel guilty about the lights when every other house is still dark.

Funny, seems I'm the only person who prefers electric to gas stoves. Gas makes me nervous.

Oh, gas makes me nervous, too. Stephen totally blew off his eyebrows and eyelashes once relighting the pilot in our really old (think actual vintage 1944) stove. But there's nothing like it for cooking. Adjusting the heat of a burner is impossible with electric.

I like gas stoves so much better. They make sense -- you can see how much fire there is, and that corresponds to how much heat there is. Plus, turning the heat up or down is so much easier. On my current electric stove, if I realize that the heat is too high on a pan and turn it down, it takes forever until the pan actually gets to the lower temperature. On a gas stove, there's just less fire immediately.

Also, I need to be way more careful around electric stoves than around gas ones, since I can't see when something is hot enough to burn me, so I have to assume that everything is.

I had the flat electric in my last place, and it had its good points (like I didn't worry about setting things on it when it was off, because of no pilot light), but in general, yuck.

I LOVE gas. But I've had it for the past 20 years, and even before that, would use bluets camping and at the observatory-when you have diesel generator power, much better to have a gas (well, propane) stove cause then you can still cook when you turn the generator off during the day when you don't need it, cause getting the diesel truck up there was a bear. But it's a learning curve on figuring out how to do low and slow and you do have to use different techniques than electric.

It's funny, my dad remembers when they got an electric stove- it was a big status thing. New technology! My grandmother couldn't understand why a new construction, bigger house would offer gas as an upgrade option when we bought the place my parents live now.

I do much prefer the newer stoves without a pilot. I had one with a pilot for a while in the apartment and always resented the glow of warmth around it during the summer. Though otherwise it was a really solid stove. In the winter, I'd find Devi curled up right over where the pilot was, which meant I had to clean it a lot....

I did not have an electric stove until this apartment and I hate it. I swear I checked, too, but I can't believe that they switched types of stoves between me renting and moving in. Although they did install a gas furnace in my apartment, so I guess it is possible.

I am playing that Song Pop game on Facebook, and I am sort of appalled that I can identify "Cum on Feel the Noise" in .8 seconds. I hate that song!

I prefer cooking with gas, but if I'm not getting gas, I like my flat electric the most. I don't like the exposed coil electrics at all.

So, I've asked my sister to tell mother I'm not up to calling home today--I wonder if I can get her to tell the BFF I ain't skyping today either. I slept 2 hours last night, plus a few grabbed minutes of dilaudid doses. I am not for public consumption.