rituals...

[telophase]

Just weathered the annual Setting Off the Smoke Alarm By Turning On The Heater. Was prepared this year and dragged my big fan in and the moment it started screeching from the smoke of burning dust, I blasted it with air to blow away the stuff it was triggered by. Worked, too: it only went off three times before shutting up, and I left the fan for a few minutes.

Now to wait until next year.

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[aussa.livejournal.com]

That oddly enough sounds cool. oo;
Maybe I should start doing those annual checkings...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Worth checking your smoke alarm. I don't schedule regular ones, mostly because I forget to, but I do things like turn the heater on when the heating elements are covered in dust and cook foods that smoke a lot on a regular basis, so it's checked pretty often.

It's wired into the apartment's electrical system, so at elast I don't have to change batteries. Presumably it's got an internal battery for those times when the pwoer goes out.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

lol, I'd never remember....despite having set ones off for strange things in the past.... Taking a shower with the door closed at my last two places was a favorite... Sometimes the fan just couldn't clear all the steam out fast enough before getting out.... Always a joy. :D

Ahh, how I wish our heater was more than just an eyesore. Does wonders for the one room it's in....unfortuately, our bedroom is far enough away that you have to bake out the living room for any heat to make it close to the bedroom.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I haven't had the shower problem before. I tend to cook things that set it off, though. :D Last time I did chicken fried steak* I opened the window, turned the fan on the stove on, turned the fan on the A/C unit on, and set my big oscillating fan** in the doorway of the kitchen to blow smoke and steam away from the smoke alarm. Freaked out the cat no end.


* Technically pan-fried instead of chicken-fried, but it's a fmaily name for the recipe.

** I found out after I'd put it togehter that the thing that controls the oscillation is broken, so I can't stop it moving, even though I hate that. But it wasn't worth taking apart, stuffing back in the box, and taking back to the store to exchane; it was only $20.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, we haven't had to deal with the cat and the smoke alarm yet..

Though, I think my worst experience with the smoke alarm was waking up to it at 2 in the morning, as it was right outside my bedroom door, while my 2 roommates were downstairs cooking, and the TV was so loud, they didn't hear the damned thing going off. Needless to say, they got the picture when I threw it down the stairs. XD

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

Eeek. Sounds like....fun? *cringe*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Can't do much else. I /could/ open up the A/C unit in the ceiling and try to dust things off before starting the heater, but I'm too short to reach it easily. :D