June 14, 2012

Scenes from my life

I figured out how to prevent the 16-ounce Marie Collander chicken pies from burning in my microwave. The manual says it's 1100 watts, but I think it may be a bit hotter than that. The new version of the MC chicken pie says you should cook for nine and a half to ten and a half minutes, but when I cooked for more than about seven and a half, the rim would burn to charcoal.

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Here's the solution. You carefully pry the pan off before cooking. Then you bend the rim down all around. Put it back in the box, cut a slot in the top, and with that I'm able to cook them for eight and a half minutes with almost no burning.

Meanwhile, a picture that may make some people cringe, below the fold.

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I've got bed bugs. They've mainly been biting me on my right hand. (It's definitely bed bugs; I found a dead one in my bed and looked it up.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 11:19 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 You'll heave to nuke the site from orbit...It's the only way to be sure. Oh, and "cringe".

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at June 14, 2012 11:35 AM (EJaOX)

2 Interesting. The wikipedias of the world say that the best signpost is the fecal traces that they leave on the sheets (except in hotels, unfortunately, where they swap sheets after the previous guest).

I did not know that they would have favourite body parts. I have a damage on right foot that I put for athlete foot.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 14, 2012 11:53 AM (5OBKC)

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It's my right hand because  that's where they are. It's the upper left corner of my bed, if I stand at the foot and look at it. When I sleep on my right side, that's where my right hand lays.

And yeah, there are all kinds of fecal traces. (And I just thought I'd mention that I didn't ask for any advice. Or suggestions. Especially unsolicited ones.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 14, 2012 11:56 AM (+rSRq)

4 If each of those dots represents a separate bite, then there must be a swarm of hematophagic insect life on your bed every night while you sleep.

Posted by: jcm3 at June 14, 2012 01:42 PM (OU30d)

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Yeah, I'm gonna talk to the apartment manager about it.

I tried once before, and they sent someone, and she said, "Nope! Nothing here!" That was about a week after it started. Now the evidence is quite a lot different.

Also I have Exhibit A, an actual dead one, to show them.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 14, 2012 03:15 PM (+rSRq)

6 Remember the old saying, "Sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite"?  My mother used to say that to me.  After I got over my initial horror of flesh-eating bugs in my bed, I asked "How am I supposed to stop them!"  She just smiled, turned out the light, and closed my bedroom door...

Posted by: Siergen at June 14, 2012 03:29 PM (PuIGa)

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And I just thought I'd mention that I didn't ask for any advice. Or suggestions. Especially unsolicited ones.


In my defense, the suggestion regarding the use of orbitally launched atomic ordinance for domestic indoor pest control was not an entirely serious one.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at June 14, 2012 03:53 PM (EJaOX)

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