It's the alarm that goes off. I'll figure it out! But it has made me sooo wary of ADT for sure.

I have heard nothing but ADT horror stories, however.

Haha, thank you. The thing is, the oven I think is fine. It's how the oven is interacting with whatever leftover ADR sensors are doing whatever they're doing. I don't have an account, so they won't help, but the panel is still in the wall. I'm very close to taking a hammer to the whole situation.

Oh yay!!!

My solution to this was to buy a toaster oven that can fit an entire pizza and just cook with that for the last 20 months. My New Year's resolution was to make it so I can use my oven, but it is June and I have not done that. So that's how I'm doing.

For an example of the state of my life: I have lived in this condo since September of 2023. The previous owner had a terrible ADT alarm system and every time I use the oven the fire alarm goes off. Not the stove, even when there's smoke, no. Just the oven. Why? Who knows!

I love my condo so much. It was worth it. It was not a mistake, but it sure was a Choice. It's a good thing I love it because it's where all the money goes until I get a new job or marry a fancy, childfree, lesbian doctor. Neither option is looking incredibly likely currently.

It doesn't really matter that the fancy doctors are gay, except that I would also like to be a fancy gay DINK who can afford home improvements, but instead I'm a house poor gay who made Questionable Financial Choices and now can't afford to buy a new couch.

I mean, I actually really like the Leverage revival too, but you can't trust open canon.

People keep trying to sell me on the benefits of smartwatches. No thank you! I don't need to know that much about my body on an ongoing basis. That's none of my business, sounds anxiety inducing.

I don't need the robots to tell me my sleep schedule is fucked. I know. I was there.

Yay, the unprecedented possibilities for connection! Yay, machine learning!

Nope! The internet sucks now, everyone's mean, AI was a mistake, social media was arguably a mistake, everything is algorithms and paywalls all the way down. I don't like it, I don't want it, I am not having a good time.

But I don't WANT to and I'm thisclose to losing my shit. You will never catch me asking AI to write my emails oldmanyellsatcloud.gif

I remember when I was young and cool. I remember when I was a techno evangelist with my whole-ass degree in culture and technology, all bright-eyed and excited.

What do you MEAN, here is an announcement about our new AI partnership? What do you MEAN, here is our recommended AI tool? I know I have to at least learn how it all works so I don't tank whatever is left of my career in the DOGE aftermath -

Things that are not great about owning a condo:
1) The community (derogatory)
2) The management company (derogatory)
3) Condo dues (obviously derogatory)
4) Being on the board and someone else's kitchen flooding being my problem first thing on a Monday morning