Hi there Billye: How are you doing??

Yeah, I'm fine. I responded to the thread about dentistry. If you want chills up your spine, read the thread. IF not, DON'T!!!

I hope you are doing okay too!!!

Alan has been to the gym twice this week and is doing just fine.
Oh, for all you microwave lovers out there (and I'm one too), I had to throw out my microwave. Why do you ask???

IT INTERFERED WITH MY SATELLITE CABLE BOX!! That's right!! Every time I cooked something in the kitchen, the signal would go nuts in the living room. Now the outlets being used are all on the left side of my house (the microwave and the tv vcr, and cable box. So I figured Aha, it must be overloading the circuitry or something! And every one of my things were plugged into a surge suppresor. I figured, if I did overload it, it would trip the surge thing. Never tripped anything. So I changed where I plugged in the micro and the same thing happened. Screwed up the living room cable box tv signal. It didn't happen to the other boxes in the bedroom.

So I went on a message board where you ask scientists all crazy questions. I also mentioned that I picked up my micro at an estate sale about 2 years ago for 5 bucks. While it wasn't brand new (IT LOOKED BRAND NEW). It was an older model (can't remember the brand, I'm getting old aren't I???), but I explained all about what was happening in my question to the "Ask a Scientist" message board.

Well, guess what?? A scientist answered my question. He said "please do not use this microwave again before you have it tested, it might be leaking" And for the past couple of days, whenever I pressed the start button, I heard a click or something. I just chalked it up to it's being an older model, etc.

But when I saw the tv signal going kaplooey, (even though I used a completely different outlet on the other side of my kitchen, it still screwed up the living room cable box).I immediately stopped using it, unplugged it, and tossed it.

I'm hesitant about buying another one. And I will never purchase a used appliance ever again. This was my first used microwave oven and it served me for 2 years. I would never stand over it for any length of time while I was cooking something. I didn't only reheat stuff, I cooked stuff too.
Why do I miss it?? Not only for the food. It does cook stuff very very fast. But I used to put my microwavable heating packs in it and put it on my back or shoulder. Today, I missed it!!

I'll probably hunt around in my local appliance store and buy one soon.

So if your microwave starts screwing up your tv signal, either have it tested or toss it.

Anybody else have this happen to them???

mel