So in the middle of our snow crisis, our microwave upped and crapped out. It started making an annoying grating sound, and a rather disturbing electrical odor.<\/p>\n
Hrm.<\/p>\n
As far as I can tell, this (now broken) Sharp microwave lasted us a bit over a year. We bought it back in October ’01, so any warranty it might have had is long since … cooked.<\/p>\n
One advantage of having a “merged” household is that we tend to still have duplicates of a lot of things. So we still have a small microwave oven down in the basement, which we’ve brought upstairs. It’s small, it doesn’t have a rotating tray, and the controls are rather cryptic, but it heats up things just fine.<\/p>\n
Life without a microwave oven is remarkly irksome.<\/p>\n
So, once we can get out of the house, a new microwave oven is on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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