This Thanksgiving I am grateful that we have a separate freezer downstairs. I am grateful for it because that means we won't lose all the stuff that was in the freezer of the refrigerator, which shit the bed this afternoon (I am also grateful that I noticed it this evening and not tomorrow morning!).
Well, at least my list of things I am grateful for is different than the usual stuff you read; family, health, jobs etc.
However, I am NOT grateful that I get to go shopping for a new fridge on "Black Friday". Especially after telling co-workers that there was no way in the world I was doing any shopping this weekend (I hate shopping in the best of times, add in hordes of rude people and I avoid the situation like the plague).
Well, I guess I can be grateful for the patience bestowed upon me by genetics - heh.
Update 11/22/07:
By turning the temp dials all the way up (or down - on the colder side), the freezer will actually freeze water. The top shelves in the fridge are on the cool side (not as cold as normal) and the crispers are definitely warm. Anyway, it still isn't doing much good (and is empty; with frozen stuff in the freezer downstairs and cold stuff in coolers), so we still need to replace it. This will be the last time I ever clean out all the doghair from underneath and behind the fridge (as I did Sunday night)!
Update #2:
Okay, so the freezer doesn't "really" freeze water; it just puts a crust on it, whcih fools the eye in semi-darkeness. We took pity on the poor thing and pulled the plug (actually, we were taking pity on the electric bill). Fortunately, the high yesterday was only about 38 (forcast at a balmy 57 - but the fog never burned off), so we didn't go thru much ice keeping the fridge stuff cold.
Yeah, it was all of that dog hair that was plugging the leaky compressor gasket to keep it from leaking coolant, wasn't it? Or was the aforementioned "bang" an earthquake-induced system failure? Good luck on the shopping. Glad I can't join you.
Posted by: Cop Car | November 22, 2007 at 11:59 AM
P.S. The frig designers should be put on "clean the coils" duty. They always exhort us to keep the danged coils clean, but the newer frigges (at least our current 2) have about .25" clearance for doing so. Impossible. I assume that when the coils collect enough cat hair, I'll upend the darned frig to clean it!
Posted by: Cop Car | November 22, 2007 at 12:02 PM