I stayed home all day yesterday, missing the writing workshop sadly, because the repairman came to fix my stove, after two months! They said between 10 and 4 and he came about 2. I am really glad to have a working stove. He had suggested that burned-on food might have caused the short, so I said the first thing I was going to do was run the self-cleaning cycle. He said, "No, don't do that. We tell you not to expose computers to high temperatures or moisture and then we put them in stoves and refrigerators. The self-cleaning cycle gets up to 1600 degrees and can contribute to the failure of the control panel. Of course, it might be fine..." But having spent a lot of time and money on repairing my stove, I am now doomed to cleaning it the old-fashioned way, with elbow grease--and chemicals. I think that was one of the reasons they invented using heat to clean it, so you don't have to use nasty oven cleaners. I did scrub out the loose particles and Ray took Bon Ami to the window, but it still needs more cleaning. I will research the best thing to use. It works, we heated our burritos in it (we could have done it in the toaster oven). Total cost $660. $125 for each time they came to the house, plus parts and shipping and markup. I really like the repairman a lot, but not the company. I would probably not use them again. A new stove would have cost a lot more.
Meanwhile, I worked some on the photo directory for UUFA and did some writing for the workshop.
Ray came home a little after 5. I made supper and we ate it and we watched TV. I fell asleep about 9 and slept until almost 6. I wonder if there is some way I can sleep for other people who don't have time...and make money doing it.
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