Author 86: Electric Animals and Electric Appliances

Let's start with the book, shall we? Featured on today's book post is Electric Animals by Natalie Lunis. There's the electric eel and the electric ray but there's also the platypus and echidna who use electroreceptors to locate food by electrolocation.


To continue on with electric appliances (which surprisingly applies to both items since the dictionary defines appliance as: a piece of household equipment operated by gas or electricity) (thanks to the good old Merriam-Webster Dictionary) we have a printer and a microwave. Both have died and await disposal at a County collection drive. For more information, visit the following link: http://www.slvhealth.org/programs/waterQualHazWaste/solidHazWaste/householdHazWaste/index.html

They're been good appliances. The printer lasted around 7 years.

Ironically, the new printer (yes, we bought a cheap model) cost less for the whole printer including a black and a color cartridge then the black only cartridge replacement package for the old defunct printer. And the cartridges for the new printer will be a fraction of the price of the old ink cartridges. Sigh. Live and learn, live and learn. (We probably should have replaced the printer about six months ago instead of trying to coax it along by rebooting, jiggling, restarting just the printer and other various attempts to get the temperamental thing to print including but not limited to begging, cajoling and praying.)

The microwave, a Sharp Carousel II, was manufactured back in 1994 and gave us 17 long years of use. Amazing. It was hard to see it go. We had replaced the fuse a number of times but it finally started acting up just a little to much. Either the microwave unit wouldn't turn on unless it was thumped on the side (just the timer and the fan would run) or the microwave unit wouldn't turn off (even if the timer had ended-we could only turn off the microwave unit by leaving the microwave oven door open.) So these two long lasting (relatively speaking) appliances have been replaced.

Let us have 3 1/2 minutes of microwave popcorn popping in tribute to these two electrical household pieces of equipment that served so long and so well.