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COLD!

7:48am CST Tuesday 12 December 2000

It's FREEEZING here!! Well, not actually below 0 degrees C, but not much above that, and too cold for my own good. That's all there is to say.

MrGrip

9:49pm CST Wednesday 12 December 2000

We just had an interesting little adventure. Wende got a caramel, chocolate, and white chocolate covered apple from her Secret Santa at work. We munched part of it and tossed a small portion of the core down the disposal. In the back of my head I heard a warning signal, but I decided it was just me being a pansy.

Apple piece in, disposal on, grungrgrggr........ silence. The disposal was stuck. Uh oh. The small portion of the apple core was too much.

Being careful to keep the switch OFF, I stuck my hand in the disposal and found that one of the spinning things was no longer spinning. It seemed to be lodged against something on the side. I couldn't get it unstuck just using my fingers, so we peered down into it with a flashlight.

I recognized what had stopped the disposal. Not an apple core, but a poor misfortuned Mr Grip from Container Store. It's a small metal clip thing for clamping together small stacks of paper or something. It's a design like a clothes pin: a spring holding closed two wooden sticks. Except in this case, these weren't wooden sticks, but little chrome person-shaped metal things.

Mr Grip had gotten his leg stuck on the outside of the disposal.

Mr long screwdriver was able to dislodge Mr Grip, who was rinsed clean of mr apple and then tossed into mr trashcan.

Disposal works fine, and I now listen more carefully to the quiet voice in my mind.