Chris Mackay 🇨🇦There will be beans. Baked beans. #ItsHappeningAgain
Guess who got around to making breakfast at 10 am, idly wondered “why is the stovetop warm?”, then realized he’d forgotten to turn off the 300°F oven after making beans yesterday afternoon. 🤦♂️😬🤣
Anyway the beans are good.
In other Chris-is-distracted news, my laundry timer went off, so I went to move wet clothes to the drying racks, only to discover I forgot to close the lid on the washing machine so it hadn’t actually, you know, started washing. 🤦♂️
Time for coffee.
So, as someone who’s been designing websites for 30+ years, the user experience of an oven that has a light indicating that the element is actively heating — but no light to indicate that it’s ON — is garbage. The potential downsides? Wasting huge amounts of expensive electricity and setting your house on fire (what if I’d gone out for several days?). But the manufacturer saved $3 on a circuit with a light.
Dianora (Diane Bruce)@tantramar Oh and I hope they are still making stoves with real controls instead of these touch keys that go off whenever I slightly look at them!
@Dianora A friend has a modern stove. I refuse to touch it even to reheat things. I swear they make things intentionally confusing. (Not that my 40+ year old stove is anywhere near perfect.)
@tantramar "senior moment" *whistles innocently*
@Dianora I’ve been like this my whole life. 🤦♂️😬
Caz Mockett@tantramar surprised your floofs weren't basking in the warmth of the oven...
@cazmockett I keep the burners fully occupied with cast-iron pans or steel pots at all times in case one of them decides to walk across a warm — or hot — element. And I’m vigilant about making sure neither of them gets to try to jump into the exciting new box when I open the hot oven. 😬 Because that’s something Ripley, especially, would do.
@tantramar sounds like you are a very conscientious cat dad 👍🏻
Dan@tantramar you've accidentally discovered the equivalent of shabbos mode 
Howard Chu @ Symas@tantramar I only use the oven with its timer...
Ross of Ottawa@tantramar lovely. So nice in this weather. Or with a meal involving maple syrup too.
I acquired the bits recently, but still haven't pulled the trigger on my usual winter-weather bean batch. Maybe this is why we're getting constant late season snow? I probably have to do it to break the cycle.
@ottaross If putting some maple syrup into the beans is wrong then I don’t wanna be right!!! 🍁
@tantramar I lean that way too, usually a mix of maple syrup, brown sugar and molasses.
@ottaross That’s the stuff, right there!
monstreline@tantramar well, now I need beans on toast for supper!
Catherine Babault@tantramar It's a bean economy. I had beans for lunch and supper this week. No beans for breakfast. Yet.
@CatherineBabault I don’t believe I’ve ever once had beans for breakfast. Seems very English (“eggs, sausage, chips, and beans” —one of the lads from Pink Floyd ordering breakfast during the recording of Dark Side of the Moon as featured in Live at Pompeii).
@tantramar Sounds healthy. They have a tune when someone fries an egg, can't remember which one...
@CatherineBabault Probably Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast (with Ron Geesin) from Atom Heart Mother, if memory serves. Haven’t listened to that in years; maybe decades.
@tantramar Yes, that's what it is with the dog howling. :)
@CatherineBabault Seamus! ☺️
@tantramar Right! 😆
@CatherineBabault My Keesha (~2002–2014) used to howl along with my guitar. It’s hilarious when they do that. ☺️ (it also masks the bad guitar playing very nicely.)
@tantramar 😆 I like it when they do that. A musical dog!
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@tantramar @CatherineBabault counterpoint:
coffee is a bean.
@kboyd @CatherineBabault Oooh. I like it.
I do believe there’s a shot of the breakfast plate in question — with beans on it — but I think there’s coffee, too. #BeenAwhile