muckefuck | Exciting condo updates (Reply)

Fastest way to kill a chummy conversation around the new firepit: casually make reference to child sexual abuse. (Totally not my fault! Someone else brought up The interpretation of dreams. Or maybe someone else brought up the interpretation of dreams and I brought up The interpretation of dreams so it still is kinda my fault.)
Crazy Neighbour has been spotted on her porch but still seems not to have interacted with anyone since the Great Tree Massacre of 2009. My thirst for drama goes unslaked!
That buzzing we heard whenever we tried to open the microwave door? Turns out it translates to "Buy a new microwave." As long as we don't go for stainless (which neither of us gives a rat's ass about anyway), it'll cost less than a new circuit board even before figuring in time and labour. (Ignoring the the $130 it took to find this out, of course.) Oh, well; another excuse to visit the wonderland of Abt Electronics.

Excursus: What is it with people calling "Abt" "ABT"? When even repairmen are doing it, you know employees at the store must be saying it, too. Does it just not look anything like a name unless you're German?
The neighbour's daughter had a slumber party last night. Six teenaged girls, which means there was enough noise for thirty ordinary adults. At least outside of the occasional lulls when they were all texting furiously.
Our oregano is blooming. Is there any culinary use for oregano blossoms? I'm assuming we should trim them before they go to seed, since the last thing we need in our plot is more damn oregano. The presence of blooms won't affect the taste of the leaves, will it?