Helpful Hints from joeeze — No more dead burritos: the sequel

In Episode 1 back on March 17, 2007, I reported on my invention of the Telltale Package Sign©™® to remind myself that I'd put something in the microwave.

Short, idiotic advice even shorter: Leave the carton or wrapper from whatever's in the microwave out on the counter in front of the oven as a mnemonic that "Hey, stoopid — you just nuked something."

No more "microwave memory hole."

But toaster oven mastery proved a far tougher — and potentially more troublesome — nut to crack.

Long story short: I have a habit of putting stuff in the toaster oven, then returning to the treadmill and computer and TV and music in my living room (top) and forgetting about what's cooking.

Until even a brain-dead blogger can smell the burnt, charred remnants of my much-anticipated brats or knockwurst or whatever, blackening into inedible cinders of what might have been.

Then the kielbasa dropped — as it were.

Just now, after placing the sausages into the toaster oven, I realized that I could avert repetition of the sad series of events recounted above by simply taking the tongs I use to turn the items with me to the computer, where they now stand proudly right in front of me in one of the drink holders on the treadmill's console (top) as a reminder to go check before I smell smoke.

Kismet.