Things that go Beep in the night

[mdlbear]

This morning I tracked down the once-every-few-minutes "beep" that had been called to my attention yesterday: it turned out to have been the old white portable phone bemoaning its lost charge. Since it was sitting on its charging base at the time, nobody had bothered looking closer -- it turned out that some well-meaning person had turned off the power strip it was recently attached to.

Speaking of well-meaning people, I need to mention this evening that I hardly ever look for leftover rice in the refrigerator's meat drawer.