Aw, Toddson, you have reminded me of when I at one point had a Hotpoint fridge and a Frigidaire stove. I am easily amused.

Can you find the model number on your oven? There should be a tag on the oven door. With that googling how to light it should be easier, there are a ton of manuals online. Is it possible you have an igniter? I think my fake wood stove is like that - no pilot light as such but a push button igniter so no match needed either

I'm sitting here, watching the Amy Phony Barrett confirmation hearing, and accidentally developed a new game to play with Republican Senators. It's called, "Wait. I Hate this One the Most!" It's like King of the Castle, but the new challenger always wins, so it's a bit predictable.

Related, we really need congressional term limits. I don't want to live in a gerontocracy.

I am in a lousy, fucking, rotten mood. And I can't help but feel that it's here to stay for the next 22 days.

I feel exactly the same. All I have to offer is that now there are only 21 days. (And whatever nightmare comes after.)

Yup. I just got off the phone with my dad, who said (among other things) that Trump is the one controlling Putin, Trump has kept Covid deaths down, and Trump hasn't done anything to harm women.

I want to believe it's the hallucinations, but no; he's just always been a bigot and I try to ignore that I was raised by someone who doesn't find people of my gender (who he refers to as "females") to actually be human. And, you know, also believes his own facts.

Oh, Teppy.

I didn't mention this last night: Dad said his hallucinations have decreased dramatically, although they're not 100% gone. So that's a very good trend. (Although the willfully ignorant bigotry and misogyny is a very bad trend. [Is it a "trend" if it's lasted 78 years?])

I downloaded my sample ballot since I am not home yet to look at the one I get in the mail. The first amendment titled - Citizenship requirement to Vote in Florida Elections. 2nd paragraph after the general description. - "Because the proposed amendment is not expected to result in any changes to the voter registration process in Florida, it will have no impact on state or local government costs or revenue." Yeah, so apparently they have to have this bullshit on the ballot because they are enough idiots in Florida that signed petitions to keep them illegals from voting.

Reader, I have not read the rest of the amendments. Going to pace myself.

Glad to hear the hallucination situation is improving, at least.

I didn't mention this last night: Dad said his hallucinations have decreased dramatically, although they're not 100% gone. So that's a very good trend. (Although the willfully ignorant bigotry and misogyny is a very bad trend. [Is it a "trend" if it's lasted 78 years?])

That's good news. [And no. That's a personality.]

[And no. That's a personality.]

[I figured. Dang it.]

A trend is something that comes and goes (like his hallucinations? his heart attacks?); what he has is, well, him.

Laura, I was expecting a little hole at the front of the oven - that's what we had in the oven at my parents' house when I was growing up. Not in what I have. I've emailed the company asking ... there's the remains of a sticker on the edge of the oven door, but it's been mostly washed off. I tried opening the broiler door, thinking maybe there'd be some information, but nothing. Well, at least I can have tea, coffee or soup, so that's something.

I contacted the movers - I was VERY unhappy - and they did refund about half of what the move cost me plus the stolen clock (a Le Coultre Atmos clock ... that had never worked) and a broken piece of good glassware. The other stuff ... I only found well after the move. (And, as a final note, when I went back to the old place to clean up, I found a bunch of stuff that the movers had just ... left. A folding table, a box of antique china, etc.) I gave them a bad review on Yelp.

Oof, Steph. I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

I spent last night figuring out my ballot. Because Ohio is ridiculous, there are 28 things for me to vote on. Fifteen of them are judges, and judges aren't allowed to list their party affiliation on the ballot. The local Democratic party left a door hanger on my door a couple weeks ago that listed everyone they endorsed, which was helpful as at least a starting point for my research.

I'm trying to figure out driving to NJ in a few weeks. I think I'm going to attempt to do it in one day, but I'm also making a plan for if I need to stop along the way. It looks like the two most logical places to stop would be Breezewood and Harrisburg, so I'm researching some hotels near the highway there. (Luckily, this route doesn't include driving through the famous "miles full of gas stations and fast food chains" part of Breezewood -- that's part of the interchange between the interstate and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and if I don't stop in Breezewood, then I'm just staying on the interstate.)

I've been checking this site for science news. It seems to be real science, nothing overblown, so it seems reliable.

And, as an example of people's attitude to science, I saw a brief video clip (from a while ago, I assume) - a bunch of young woman in a large elevator, music going, jumping around and dancing. The elevator stops, the door opens ... and Bill Nye gets on. The women stop dancing, stand up straight and one says "wow".