Talking about music… a friend made a digital advent calendar with music for all of us. Such a great idea 
It does help that the lot of us have similar tastes from all those years of festivals and concerts.
He used tuerchen.com to link 24 music videos.
Have you put all your decorations up yet?
Tomorrow.
Got a new mini tree that hopefully will be dog proof
Good luck!
Went the wrong way on my microwave dial and wondered. Who microwaves anything for 90 minutes?
Back in Ye Olde Tymes, you could theoretically find recipes to microwave turkeys, roasts… the theory was that the microwave oven could (and arguably should) completely replace all your other cooking appliances.
With adjustable power and a rotating cooking surface, I suppose you could theoretically cook something for that long. I have baked a few things in my microwave to mixed success (I made an upside down chocolate lava cake once that was actually really good), but even that I think was on the order of 20-30 minutes, not 90.
Doesn’t surprise me, though.
I don’t think cooking for that long, but maybe thawing frozen foodstuffs?
I miss old microwaves, they were big as TVs, back when TVs were small, a bit larger than an oven (I could go on an on…)
People who have dials on their microwaves 
But yeah, old microwaves were expected to be ovens, hence the name, Microwave-oven. I even saw one once that had an interior temperature probe, so it could cook to a specific temperature, rather than for a set time. That was from before turntables were introduced, obviously, since the probe plugged into the side.
Our most used family appliance is a 1985 microwave, with wood paneling!
Just checked and it has a port for the thermometer.
Honestly it works great. My father and mother-in-law tried to get us to get rid of it once by buying us a new one.
That was a trippy experience because I was like drunk with fever post pregnancy, like 104. And they came over with some things and were like “don’t get up we got you some things!”
And I was like “you guys are really here right?”
We tried the new one and promptly put it in storage and brought out the old one. It worked better.
Biggest thing is you know the funk meat can have from defrosting? This really doesn’t do that
I was once forced to cook a hamburger for my dinner from frozen hockey puck to rubber hockey puck. One bite and I didn’t eat hamburger for 3 years and I still am not a hamburger person from it
My microwave (a panasonic, reasonably not old) doesn’t have a temperature probe socket, but it does have a temperature sensor. It’s got some automatic modes that use that to detect when stuff is done. I’m not sure how it works (probably detecting the air temp, and watching how that moves, versus the cooking of the thing it thinks is there), but it does work pretty well. the ‘sensor reheat’, in particular does a surprsingly good job.
I got this model because it has a very short duty cycle at less than full power, that’s closer to modulating power. Magnatrons are basically on or off, so you reduce power by turning them on or off. Most machines have a several second duty cycle, on for five seconds, off for five, say at half power. this is fractional seconds, and it works much better.
Your regular entry in “I apologise for the English language”:
Ben built a pretty tough pig-pen.
He didn’t have the tough trough thought through though.
(That’s “tuff troff thort threw tho”.)
You have an r in thought? Odd.
I found it fascinating to see what people think is the “default” way to pronounce “ou” in an unfamiliar word (specifically, my son’s name). The results were unexpected!
Another way of writing it in my native pronunciation (en_GB not much regional anything) would be “thaut”, like “taut”; the R isn’t sounded particularly, but it’s close to the same vowel sound found in “or”.
Aha! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thought#Pronunciation goes to the pronunciation section.
Maybe it’s similar to how some people put an ‘r’ in Washington to get Warshington?
(it really isn’t)
Is that only on War times (like the sunrays Japanese flag)??
