Diane spent most of the weekend working on photos at an event (at home on Zoom, of course), so I went out yesterday and took care of some errands. I donated our old mixer and got rid of a lot of e-waste, both at Goodwill, and I looked at the Kia EV-6 and took another look at the Hyundai Ioniq 5.

“Looked” is the appropriate verb – going to a car dealer on Saturday afternoon is a recipe for being ignored! I will want to go back and talk to someone about the Kia, but I’m in no hurry.

I also spent a lot of the weekend hacking at my Toastmasters club’s agenda spreadsheet; I have to keep learning more and more about Google Appscript (Javascript with many built-in classes to talk to Google services). It’s not too bad, but I wish I could find a way that people who use the script wouldn’t have to explicitly authorize it to do things – Google’s message to request permission is very scary.

In fact, I worked on the spreadsheet so long last night that I was too tired to write a blog entry until just now – so the streak is over after 1082 consecutive days of blogging.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a problem with a camera battery swelling; I also posted a review on Amazon describing the problem. I disposed of the bad battery and forgot about it until I got a note from Powerextra (the seller) yesterday offering me a replacement or a partial refund. I didn’t need another battery (I’d kept the one from my ill-fated camera), so I asked for the refund. A couple of hours later, Amazon notified me that I’d received a full refund for the batteries and charger – that seems more than fair! I updated my review. :-)

On Wednesday, our microwave oven stopped working; its display showed “door”, but the door was firmly closed. I tried poking at the latches inside the oven in hopes of convincing the oven that all was well; that was a Bad Idea because it put the latch in a place where it couldn’t, well, latch, and the door wouldn’t stay closed! A little duct tape fixed that, but the microwave still didn’t work.

I did a little research and called Ace Appliance Service, who said they could come out today. Tom arrived just after 10, disassembled the microwave, found the problem (a fuse, not the door!), fixed it, and reassembled everything – total time, a little over 20 minutes including explaining things to me. :-)

$40 for labor, $4 for the fuse, and $110 for the service call and I have a working microwave again.

I’ll use Ace the next time I have an appliance problem. Highly recommended.

Shabbat Shalom!