Talk about not paying close attention. I was heating some sausage in our smallest microwave and unlike some folks I know, I will adjust the power level to keep something from splattering all over the inside of the microwave oven. I set the control for 7 minutes at 40% power, or so I thought. I was concentrating on some Email when I heard an odd noise from the kitchen. The microwave was full of smoke and the sausage burned to a crisp. It turns out that I had inadvertently hit an extra zero when setting the time and it was 70 minutes instead of 7 minutes. Because I had set the power level to 40%, there was no back draft and flames when I opened the frigging oven but there was a lot of smoke. I can still smell Polish Kielbasa throughout the house after 3 days from the time of blastoff. The lesson I learned was to pay better attention to those mundane tasks I take on every day. o_O
TDD