Things that go plopp in my kitchen

[yakalskovich]

I almost thought I had ghosts in my kitchen, like fabulous_papaya has in her house.

I sometimes heard a strange "plopp" as if some domestic mishap had occured, but there never was anything.

I was just there when it did it again, and I realised that closed empty plastic bottles beside a warm heating duct will produce the effect every time they can...

In other news: I may be a professional database tamer, but a rank amateur in some private IT applications. If anybody can point me to a site that tells me how to make MP3s from CDs, you shall have some chanting Mount Athos monks soon.

Comments

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

Plastic bottles? How curious.

Hey, if you live in Germany, where buildings are generally older than they are in California, you've got a much greater chance of ghosts.

Speaking of kitchens, I've just accidentally pushed a bottle of vanilla extract off the top shelf in the kitchen cupboard, it's exploded all over everything, and the whole place smells FANTASTIC.

[yakalskovich]

Urgs! I guess you'll be sick of it after a week or two. If it lingers and lingers and lingers persistently...

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

Ah, but! It makes people who come over think I am a culinary genius.

[yakalskovich]

But vanilla is so - vanilla.

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

I think vanilla has a bad name because it's always associated with plainness. But it isn't plain, just subtle. There's a difference.

Anyway, the way our kitchen smelled after Leftover-Chinese Omelette day, I don't much mind having some vanilla whiffage to cover it up. :)

[yakalskovich]

Oh. Now I understand. Leftover whatnot is So Not Good.