{"id":303,"date":"2010-01-13T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changespell.com\/wordplay\/?p=303"},"modified":"2010-01-12T23:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T06:15:43","slug":"chill-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changespell.com\/wordplay\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/chill-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Chill, Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wednesday Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Wolf<\/p>\n

So the first thing I saw after the movers arrived was my refrigerator rolling…<\/p>\n

…untended…<\/p>\n

… off the back of truck.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe I should start at the beginning.<\/p>\n

I started off the big relocation by taking out the dogs and horse a day early and spending the night in the unfurnished house.<\/p>\n

No fridge? \u00a0No problem. \u00a0That cold snap was sweeping the nation–my fridge was the great outdoors. \u00a0In fact, my deep <\/em>freezer<\/em> was the great outdoors.<\/p>\n

Our little wood pellet stove tried very hard to keep the great indoors from being my deep freezer, too, but it was severely handicapped by my extensive experience with basic old-timey wood stoves–all my instincts are wrong! \u00a0We do have a furnace to back it up, but I’m still learning how to balance the two.<\/p>\n

So I spent the night\/morning dealing with unsettled animals, and along about mid-day the movers arrived. \u00a0They wasted no time getting things ready to go–so that was when I opened the back door to the sight of my refrigerator rolling toward certain doom from a five-foot truck platform.<\/p>\n

I believe I squeaked. \u00a0Or something. \u00a0And the nearest moving guy’s eyes bugged out, and he threw himself at the fridge in a near-sacrificial way and saved the day. \u00a0And I then said, with much dignity:<\/p>\n

“I’m going back inside now.”<\/em><\/p>\n

If anything else almost fell, I didn’t see it.<\/p>\n

Hours of chaos later, the moving guys eventually hooked up the icemaker to said fridge–and boy you gotta know how I go through ice–proudly indicated the lack of leak, and then left before anyone realized the fridge wasn’t actually running and the water supply hadn’t actually been turned on. \u00a0And once we turned it on …<\/p>\n

Ahhhh! <\/em>Turn it off! \u00a0Turn it OFF! <\/em><\/p>\n

Oh yes, leaks. \u00a0Persistent leaks. \u00a0Crazy-making, GIVE ME THE TEFLON TAPE NOW<\/em> leaks.<\/p>\n

But lo! \u00a0 Persistent people, too! \u00a0Grunt, swear, curse, repeat, repeat, repeat, and the leaks were fixed! \u00a0And yet…<\/p>\n

The fridge wasn’t running.<\/p>\n

Oh, we were very tired by then. \u00a0But being clever, we eventually tried a second outlet. \u00a0No joy. \u00a0But being especially<\/em> clever, we thought to check the outlets themselves.<\/p>\n

Oh.<\/p>\n

One hundred feet of coiled heavy-duty outdoor extension cord running across the kitchen later (hey, you work with what you’ve got, right?) and lo! The fridge was running after all!<\/p>\n

Still being clever as we pondered those two dud outlets, we went hunting GFIs. \u00a0We crawled behind boxes, we reset GFIs, we headed for the circuit box and flipped every breaker not once but twice.<\/p>\n

Finally, we muttered darkly and put a call into the builder, and my sister (the resourceful person from the previous post) went home.<\/p>\n

And then around midnight, the phone rang. \u00a0“Hey,” she says. \u00a0“Wasn’t there an outlet hidden at the back of the pantry cabinet?”<\/p>\n

And lo. \u00a0Behind the door, behind the roll-out drawer, an outlet. \u00a0A GFI outlet.<\/p>\n

The<\/em> GFI outlet.<\/p>\n

Fridge. \u00a0Power. \u00a0Non-leaking icemaker line.<\/p>\n

And it was good. <\/em>Right there around midnight.<\/p>\n

The thing is, we have two fridges. \u00a0One is merely old and the other is ancient; both are modest beasts. \u00a0We don’t need two–but neither quite does the job on its own, so until we can sort out something better, this is it. It’s a merging-households situation.<\/p>\n

And now the old one is suddenly no longer cooling the food. \u00a0Oh, the freezer is working great! \u00a0But the fridge part…maybe not so much.<\/p>\n

Well, it’s still winter out there..!<\/p>\n

(Don’t appliances always just know<\/em>–?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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