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Had a nice surprise when checking my e-mail after the Netherlands v Serbia match. Denise, who I'd thought had drifted out of my life since that terrible day at Wolverhampton in March, had sent me an invitation to join her network on Where Are You Now?
I was already a WAYN member - but at a different e-mail address from the one Denise had sent her invitation to. I tried to join her network from the address I'm already registered on, but the damn system wouldn't let me, so I had to set up a new WAYN account for the e-mail address the invitation was sent to (even though I hardly ever use that one now). While I was going through that palaver I nearly missed the start of Mexico v Iran.
But it was worth it to be joined to Denise in some way once again.
Going to the fridge for a beer just before kick-off, I noticed that the freezer door wasn't properly closed. I opened the door to investigate and saw a huge accumulation of ice keeping the flap of the super freezing section from closing. So I spent the opening ten minutes of the game (which included a goal for Mexico, whom I was supporting as I got them in the sweepstake) flicking back and forth between watching the match through the window between the kitchen and the living room and knocking the excess ice off with the meat hammer. After all that hammering, though, the door still wouldn't close properly. I decided it must be the ice at the bottom-front of the super freeze section stopping the flap from fully coming up, so evacuated my beers and some food I want to keep cold to the other fridge, switched the fridge freezer to Defrost and sat down with a beer to watch the rest of the match.
Just before Angola v Portugal I checked how the defrosting was going. The ice at the bottom-front of the super freeze had been softened just enough for me to lift it out, enabling me to push the flap right in, but when I tried the door, every time I closed it, after a moment's pause it would pop out a little again. In desperation I went next door and asked John if he could have a look at it. He soon spotted the problem - there was a big accumulation of ice on the metal curves at the front of the runners that make up one of the shelves, which was pushing the front of the second tray a little forward. That was what was stopping the door closing. I thanked John; he looked through the living room door to see the telly and asked what the score was. I told him 1-0 to Portugal and described Luis Figo's magnificent slalom run down the pitch to set the goal up for Pauleta; he looked bemused, as if that was too much information, but cheerfully went home. I had a very satisfying time knocking all the ice off the fronts of the runners with the meat hammer, switched out of Defrost and settled down in relaxed mode for the rest of the footie.
I was already a WAYN member - but at a different e-mail address from the one Denise had sent her invitation to. I tried to join her network from the address I'm already registered on, but the damn system wouldn't let me, so I had to set up a new WAYN account for the e-mail address the invitation was sent to (even though I hardly ever use that one now). While I was going through that palaver I nearly missed the start of Mexico v Iran.
But it was worth it to be joined to Denise in some way once again.
Going to the fridge for a beer just before kick-off, I noticed that the freezer door wasn't properly closed. I opened the door to investigate and saw a huge accumulation of ice keeping the flap of the super freezing section from closing. So I spent the opening ten minutes of the game (which included a goal for Mexico, whom I was supporting as I got them in the sweepstake) flicking back and forth between watching the match through the window between the kitchen and the living room and knocking the excess ice off with the meat hammer. After all that hammering, though, the door still wouldn't close properly. I decided it must be the ice at the bottom-front of the super freeze section stopping the flap from fully coming up, so evacuated my beers and some food I want to keep cold to the other fridge, switched the fridge freezer to Defrost and sat down with a beer to watch the rest of the match.
Just before Angola v Portugal I checked how the defrosting was going. The ice at the bottom-front of the super freeze had been softened just enough for me to lift it out, enabling me to push the flap right in, but when I tried the door, every time I closed it, after a moment's pause it would pop out a little again. In desperation I went next door and asked John if he could have a look at it. He soon spotted the problem - there was a big accumulation of ice on the metal curves at the front of the runners that make up one of the shelves, which was pushing the front of the second tray a little forward. That was what was stopping the door closing. I thanked John; he looked through the living room door to see the telly and asked what the score was. I told him 1-0 to Portugal and described Luis Figo's magnificent slalom run down the pitch to set the goal up for Pauleta; he looked bemused, as if that was too much information, but cheerfully went home. I had a very satisfying time knocking all the ice off the fronts of the runners with the meat hammer, switched out of Defrost and settled down in relaxed mode for the rest of the footie.
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Date: 2006-06-12 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-12 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-12 05:22 pm (UTC)My tivo is working again, and I'm trying to get all the world cup games I possibly can (while still watching the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs...go Edmonton!).
Seriously, I don't like sports, and I never have. I don't know what's up with me. Time to knit some more.