Sadly, it was them and to their credit they did issue an e-mail about confirming your email account password. But of course I did not see the message about confirming because I could not receive ANY emails!! The complexity of this problem is best not detailed here but it took DH about two hours on "Customer Service" to resolve the problem, somewhat. My issue was that my password did not work, but we came to learn that it wasn't "my" password that was needed. As "I" am only one user on the account, DH hubby is a second user we each have passwords. BUT DH has an "account" password (unbeknownst to me), that was needed. Why me?
That was resolved on Monday when I finally received my messages from Saturday night, caught up and thought the world was right again. Not so.
Most precious to me are two Black & Decker Flavor Scenter steamers (nearly identical), that I use for steaming vegetables, rice, hard-boiling eggs, just about everything except making omelets. Each has a clear, heavy plastic steaming bowl (among other accessories). The bowls do not fit together, I know this but instead of heating up both steamers last night I had the first already hot and steaming mixed vegetables and needed to heat two steamed buns brought home from our Dim Sum brunch on Sunday.
Without thinking I put the second bowl (with the buns) on TOP of the already hot bowl with vegetables and in an instant the two locked! Need I say we did not have the vegetables for dinner? They are locked in the bottom bowl and I cannot get the two apart. I tried hot water, cold water, ice cubes - they are deadlocked together.
Now you might say - just order a new part. Not that easy. The model is B&D HS900, long ago discontinued but fortunately the models 1000 and 1050 use the same bowl - EXCEPT the parts supply source lists them at $10.60 plus shipping. I checked E-Bay and found one for $7.00 but the shipping was $12 (?). This may not seem like a huge amount but I paid $6 for the first one and $8 for the second, both at Goodwill, so naturally I am less inclined to pay big bucks just for a replacement bowl.
Now I have reached the point where I could survive with ONE steamer if I could foresee how to break ONE of the bowls without breaking both at once....for that I need a magic hammer. Meanwhile I spent this morning shopping two of my favorite thrift shops to see if another B&D steamer of the same model might be found. Of course not. What I did find is an oval shaped steamer for $2.00 which will suffice as back-up until I can find bowls elsewhere. Actually it looks like a pretty good steamer, well used but a bit smaller and easier to fit in the cupboard.
This would not be such a panic if I did not use the steamers nearly every day. All of this without a word from DH who is ashamed that he has a 'dumpster diving' wife picking up the refuse of the world. He can rankle me about being cheap but he loves our bank balance.
What I need now is a cup of tea and a sit down, except I am on an all-water-clean-out detox and have not had any caffeine for the past two weeks. After the initial headache, I have felt better and clearing my body of toxin's cannot be all bad. BUT I want some tea NOW!! Deep breath, count to one hundred. The visit's to the thrift shops did pay off, I found a useable iron to replace one that I scratched the surface of the hot plate; and two pair of slacks both like new.
Reaching near 90 degrees today, I must say that summer has arrived early. For the rest of the day I can dial it back a bit - maybe some reading on the Kindle2 would help. Just finished "Too Big To Fail," and am half way through "Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It." Not exactly easy reading. DH is reading "Sellout" and highly recommends it. Maybe. Maybe not, or maybe I should hem the new slacks. Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day (?) bb
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