Some of the technology in our life seems to be on strike these days. My microwave is dying. This is quite distressing! I grew up without a microwave--I remember when my mom got her first one. I was a teenager at the time. So I know that people somehow survived without microwaves for thousands of years. But I have been spoiled to have one for most of my cooking years excluding a few college apartments and most of my mission apartments. Without a microwave, I have to think of things like taking the meat for dinner out early to thaw. (Excuse me while I go pull some meat out of the freezer for tonight.) My brain is not used to having to function at that level. So the microwave is just going to have to be replaced--speedily!
Then there's our garage-door opener. This is another thing that I didn't grow up with, but now that I have one, I don't enjoy going without it. For some reason it has decided that the ground, where it should stop, isn't where it used to be. First it stopped a mere inch from the ground. Soon it was stopping a good four inches off the ground, and now it stops about 1 1/2 feet from the ground. Niles fiddled with it a little but it didn't help. So we have turned it off for now and have to hop in and out of the car to pull it up and down manually. I wish our garage door had a handle on the front like the one in Arizona did. It makes it much easier to raise and lower the door when it has a handle! I would just park in the driveway for now, but then I would have to scrape frost and ice off the windows. I prefer to hop in and out. Maybe the garage door opener is protesting the cold. I can have empathy for it. I am very grateful to have a house with a garage. Can't complain about that.
These minor inconveniences serve as a reminder to me about how easy my life is, really. How lucky and grateful I am to have these gadgets that, when they are working, add so much convenience to my life. I don't think my grandparents (or most of the population of the planet even now, for that matter) would feel much sympathy if I complained to them about my malfunctioning technology.
Weekly Review April 24 '26
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3 comments:
Microwaves were invented for forgetful people like me! Frank still thinks we need to change dinner plans when I discover that I forgot to get the meat out of the freezer. I laugh at him and say "What do you think the microwave is for?!" It's definitely a "necessity" at my house!
Ditto, we have it easy our meat is frozen we didn't have to go kill the chicken and clean out it's guts or any other beast! Good luck! We have the crazy washing machine that won't work unless the light is on or it's day--we joke that it's lonely or afraid of the dark!!! But it's just not on the list to replace since it's 2 years old.
I sure wish I had a garage. To Rachelle: That's what you get for buying a solar-powered washing machine!
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