Now I know just how to celebrate my 32nd birthday when it comes along. How exciting!

Ad astra per aspera

No! My apartment has 4 types of wall sockets (the 2 prong thin Italian ones for lower power, the two prong wider Italian ones for regular devices, the 3-in-a-row Italian ones with earth and the European standard). The appliances include 240V ones will all these types of plugs, and appliances from the U.S which can run on 240V but have U.S. plugs.

Then there are the 120 V ones, with U.S. plugs, mostly run through a 200W transformer with U.S input and output plugs. Finally, there's the espresso machine, Italian-made but bought in Zabars, with it's own 1.500 W transformer with a European plug.

The last thing I'm going to do is get something with a British plug...

from my pre-vegan days, i remember they make the best cheese on toast, welsh rarebit with a smear of marmite on top, yes.

there were those double grills too that made wicked toasted cheese sarnies.

those toaster overs i saw more in the states, in the pre microwave days. they were the bees' knees for bedsit type situations, student digs etc.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~