Life Goes On--Blah! #261 By Hank Silverberg The world right now is a complex place. There is war, political division, antisemitism, other forms of racism, and many more things to write about. But this week life got a bit complicated at home for the simplest of reasons. And it created a distraction from all those other more important things. (The old oven died too young!) My wife runs a very successful home-based bakery from our kitchen. She's built up a strong clientele over five years and is making a small profit. But this week calamity struck. Her fully electric oven died. We installed this oven just eight years ago, and although it was not top-of-the-line, it wasn't cheap either. A discussion with a repairman turned up the heat so to speak, when he told us the part we needed to fix the oven was no longer available. Frankly, we expected to get mor