Tag: smoke detector

Smoke

We made blackened fish in a cast iron skillet last night. It was excellent.

Cleaning the skillet requires rubbing it down with vegetable oil and then burning it off. That didn’t go quite as excellent. Especially when I had all of the windows open at 10:30pm when it was 48 degrees out, and that was before the smoke alarms went off.

Insult to injury, 15 minutes after the smoke cleared and the alarms were silent, one of the smoke alarms started giving that dying battery chirp. Perfect timing, ass munch.

278/365
278/365

At least the skillet is clean and ready for the next meal.

3:45 AM

3:45 AM I’m awakened from a nice happy sleep by the smoke alarm in the hallway.

Beep, beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep. then silence.

Wait a couple of minutes… nothing.

Huh.

I know it was the hallway because they have an indicator light that turns on if they detect something. The indicator light for smoke is on, but not carbon monoxide.

Wait a couple more minutes… nothing.

Well now what?

I changed the batteries and now I’m sitting up for a while to be certain nothing is going on.

Happy Monday, everyone.