now that's timing

[cellio]

Our power went out this afternoon during a storm. After a couple hours, Dani said it's worth making sure we haven't tripped the main breaker to the house (i.e. it's not us). I pointed out that the power company's report-an-outage line wasn't answering and was instead playing a recording saying "power's out all over the place and we don't have time to talk to you; go away", but said he should feel free to check.

He went down to the basement with a flashlight. A couple minutes later, the power came on. A minute later, he came up.

I asked: did you do that? He said the only breaker that was tripped was the one powering the dehumidifer and he'd flipped that one back, but he hadn't touched anything else. Weird timing!

I'm just glad the power came on in time for me to use the oven for dinner. We had guests, and I really wanted to bake the fish rather than pan-frying it. (I wasn't too sure about the idea of poaching, the only other stovetop option I could think of.)

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[cellio]

Yes, electric wall oven and gas cooktop. The house came that way; we didn't make those decisions.

(The oven is too small for my taste, but every scenario that involves changing that cascades through most of the rest of the kitchen...)