Malfunction

An amazing colorful sunrise was out my kitchen windows before I went to sleep. I have a much better view of it than I used to before Hurricane Irene. There were alot more trees n vegetation in the way.

When I went to open a window to get a pic in the dark, I managed to knock down a couple of plants n got dirt all over the place. Then I had to pick it up before lieing down after my very long work week of holiday orders had finally ended.




There have been a few more incon- veniences tripping me up lately. A couple weeks ago I went to play a VHS tape, n the audio came out as a loud, grating noise. At first I thought it was the tape cassette going bad, then tried several more n the audio problem persisted. I use the box as my cable channel converter for the old TV with the remote to change channels, n also patch a separate DVD player into the jacks. Without the VHS box, I've been unable to get the DVD to work directly into the TV jacks.

A few years ago when the last combo DVD/VHS player had died, I'd had this one bought in '01 for $40 stashed away for emer- gencies. Right now I can't afford another VHS while Little Truck needs more repairs, so it may be a very long winter without my VHS movie collection for entertainment, (LOR, Star Wars, Jurrassic Park, Spiderman, ect) . I don't have a great deal of DVDs of my old Favs I want to see again either.


Slowly I've been building up my freezer food stash since it all was trashed after the long post-hurricane power-out. Last night I went to heat up a frozen Stouffers lasagne, which takes about 10 minutes in the microwave. After about a minute, the power diplay panel made a popping sound n fizzled out. So I had to wait an hour to cook it the other way. The microwave's dead! Now there'll be few quick hot dinners after work until I can get a new one. I really shouldn't complain since that machine has lasted me ever since 1990... 21 years!

I hope the rest of my machines stay up n running for awhile... My own malfuntions are enough extra work as it is!