The gas stove is out of order.

The symptoms are: unable to fire.

It has been three years since I moved to my new house. I occasionally cooked to improve my food. During the holiday, I suddenly couldn't catch fire. At that time, the beef and ribs were soaked in blood, so I waited for the boiling water to be put into the ceramic stew just bought to blend water with fire, and then the fire went out. The switch button of the gas stove popped and sparkled, but there was no fire. I was deep in thought: Why was there no fire? I asked myself that the answer must not be on the riddle. I searched on the twitter for the reason why the gas stove could not be ignited. I followed the video to check the height of the igniter, the carbon deposit on the inner ring fire cover, and the size of the damper, but it did not work.

When a person fails completely, he will look for a way out, and I started logical deduction:

First of all, the gas stove has two stoves, and I usually use the stove at different frequencies. If one stove breaks down, it is impossible that the other stove also breaks down at the same time. So my previous adjustment to the video should be in vain. In fact, there are only two reasons why both stoves can't be lit at the same time: one is that there is no gas, the other is that there is no electricity.

Then I checked the on-off valve of the gas and found that there was no problem. I also checked the use of the gas water heater and found that it was burning normally, indicating that there was no problem with the gas. The only thing left may be that the battery under the gas stove is out of power. But when I press the ignition knob, I can see the blue arc light on the ignition head, which misleads me. I opened the cabinet door and removed two 1.5V batteries under the gas stove. It is unreasonable for such two big batteries to rebel after three years?

But it is mutinous. I thought that the role of this battery was to supply electrons to the ignition head, just like a lighter. I didn't expect that this battery would also provide power for the solenoid valve under the gas stove. This is what I learned later from the structural diagram of the gas stove. But on that day, there was only one reason for uncertainty. Although I was not sure, this was the only reason left, So I bought two new batteries and installed them. OK!

The joy of repairing small appliances is the same as the last time I used my hand to open the sewer.

After all, it saved hundreds

To be honest, I really like Wang Zhi'an's interview program. The earliest one was "Situation" in China, as well as "Wang Jupai", which he founded overseas. Wang Jupai is also one of the channels I have subscribed to for a long time on YouTube. Unexpectedly, Wang Zhi'an was forced to apologize and even became homeless recently because of some remarks about the Taiwan election. To be honest, I sympathize.

The reason for this is that Wang Zhian participated in a local talk show "He Long Night Show" during his interview with Taiwan's general election, and was criticized by the Democratic Progressive Party for discriminating against the disabled, and then his visa was cancelled, and he was not allowed to visit Taiwan for five years.

I first saw this message on Weibo. To be honest, Wang Zhi'an discriminated against disabled people. Based on my observation of this person for many years, I don't believe it. Then I watched the whole issue of the "Helong Night Show". I didn't see Wang Zhi'an's comments about discrimination against disabled people in the interview of more than 20 minutes, I have some doubts: is it because of the pressure of the program group that I watched this episode and was forced to edit and retransmit it? No, then I saw the screenshot of the video saying that Wang Zhi'an discriminated against the disabled on Twitter. The video text is as follows:

Wang: The stage of the political election is like a concert scene. There are singers, then there are those who pave the way for the disabled, and those who push the disabled up to sensationalism. We used to have such programs in the mainland, which were called Art Life, and the Spring Festival Gala. They all said that music would come when the tears were coming. Then the disabled person said that he supported the Democratic Progressive Party.

Where does this sentence discriminate against the disabled? Anyone who has a little brain and has studied Chinese knows that Wang Zhian means that the DPP uses the disabled people's sympathy to win votes. Wang Zhian is not ashamed of the election methods adopted by the political parties that use the disabled.

But it didn't work. Those supporters of the Democratic Progressive Party seemed to have a collective climax in a flash, and they would not stop killing Wang Zhian: they announced the name, legal person, address, employee information of Wang Zhian's company in Japan, and even went to the bottom of Wang Zhian's company building. Wang Zhian counseled. Wang Zhian said in the video of apology that he had already been exiled overseas and could not go back, but his team, the people behind his production and his family and friends still needed to return home. He could not involve them.

Look at how familiar and despicable the means adopted by the so-called Democratic Progressive Party are. The party representing Taiwan's democracy is like the Communist Party of Afghanistan!

Speaking of discrimination, there is a dialogue in the "Helong Night Show":

Host: Now students begin to learn to speak branch language because they play dithering. Have you heard the word branch language?

Wang Zhian: Never heard of it

Host: What the Chinese say

Wang Zhian: Ah, what the Chinese say is called a branch language

Moderator: words

Wang Zhian: Which one is it?

F: Zhina's branch

Wang Zhian: Isn't China including Taiwan?

The host, women and audience laughed

Wang Zhian: In the eyes of Japanese, China includes Taiwan

Woman: Really?

Wang Zhian: Really

Hearing this paragraph, I got goose bumps all over. The woman with deep V chest covered her hands, covered her mouth, opened her teeth and looked puzzled: really da er! At the same time, I was shocked by the deep separation between China and Taiwan.

Anyone who has a little common sense knows that the word "China" is a discriminatory term used by Japan to address China in those days. As early as the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, even if you did not recognize China, your Taiwan would still have the flag of blue sky and white sun, and the Republic of China would not recognize it? Forget that Taiwan was called "South China" when it was colonized by Japan? Fortunately, Japan also blocked Wang Zhian. What's the difference between this and being a father?

I had a little expectation of Taiwan's democracy before, and I thought they might be the light of Chinese people, until I saw a bunch of laughing audience, ragtag crowd, go to his uncle's light of Chinese people!

The year 2023 will soon pass. I miss it very much, but I don't want to do it again. What I miss is the passage of time. I don't want to come back because a lot of pessimistic and disappointing things happened in this year. At the beginning of the year, my body suffered from chronic illness, which led me to anxiety and mild depression for a time, followed by several exam failures, investment gains and losses, personnel disputes and persistent self doubt. For most of the year, I felt that my body lacked energy, slept for a long time, and idled for a long time.

At the end of the year, I read a book "Believe" by Cai Lei, a patient with progressive frostbite. I don't know whether Cai Lei wrote this book himself or whether his dictation was collated and processed by others. But the experience of reading this book is the same as that of reading Yu Hua's "To Live": you sit there quietly, five or six hours later, the sky is dark, There is nothing you can do about the ups and downs of death. You only feel that your nose is blocked, your chest is depressed, and you can't calm down for a long time. Just like Fugui's final choice to live is the reason for living, Cai Lei's choice to believe is the explanation for believing, because there is no other way.

When I was young, I had a romantic idea about death. When I saw Haizi, Zhang Guorong, and Kete Cobain, I felt that life should burn and not wait until the lights ran out. When you see, hear and experience too many deaths, you suddenly change your attitude towards life: when you come to the world, you should see the sun and walk on the street with your sweetheart. You don't know what will happen in the future. You don't have to miss the past. What you have is experience At this moment, no matter how happy or sad, you can grasp What you can do is just at this moment, regardless of joys and sorrows believe It can only be at this moment, regardless of resentment, love, parting, and begging.

As a billionaire, Cai Lei wrote such an episode in the book "Believe": as the world's first incurable disease, Cai Lei was inevitably cheated by the various tricks of the Jianghu doctors after he got the disease. He cheated too much, and sometimes he couldn't defeat his friends' good intentions, so he let his friends go to experience it for free

The elder sister comes to the clinic once a week, and I also hope to confirm the effect of early treatment with her, so I have an appointment with her.

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"But the legs are still like that... The legs are weak..." The elder sister's ambiguous pronunciation has not landed yet, and suddenly she was interrupted by "Shifu": "Didn't you get cured that day? What have you done these two days? Did you stay up late again?"

After two or three days of contact, "Master" always spoke in a gentle voice, and the sudden reprimand startled my wife and me. The elder sister on the opposite side immediately closed her mouth and did not dare to speak again. Her eyes swept around the room, leaving nowhere to put them.

I have contacted my elder sister by phone many times before, Each time she said "effective" with certainty, and the determination in her tone did not sound like a fabrication.

But today, I finally understand what is going on. When evaluating the treatment effect, the therapist will repeatedly guide you to believe that your arms are higher, your fingers are more straight than before, and your whole body meridians are more unblocked. These words will give patients a strong psychological hint, and gradually you will feel from your heart that "really, the arms are higher, the fingers are straight, and the meridians are more open". To put it bluntly, faith is soul. If you believe that the treatment is effective, it is really effective.

Then it suddenly occurred to me that I could never read the great book of success called Human Weakness. I remember which chapter in the first chapter, which roughly means that Carnegie said that when a salesperson woke up every day, he said to himself that he wanted to be a sales champion and I wanted to be a sales champion, and then he finally became a sales champion. When I read this, I scolded: Isn't this a fucking lie? I also want to become the President of the country? I threw the book away because I didn't believe in the fabricated story.

However, the real strength of the placebo effect in psychology is that even if you know you are taking a placebo, the placebo effect still exists. Cai Lei later moved his house and changed his name. Of course, the frostbite did not heal itself. But with these placebo effects and psychological hints, the pineal gland of the brain secreted more melatonin, and then ended his insomnia for six months.

This inconspicuous little segment in Believe made me suddenly start to look at myself, because in the first half of my life, I was full of vigilance to the world, and regarded my disbelief as my principle of doing things. Maybe I had experienced too many failures, or perhaps I was deeply impressed with some failures. I always ask myself: Why me? So I always look at people, things and things around me from the perspective of outsiders.

Maybe it's time for me to change my perspective. This is my biggest gain and enlightenment in the past 2023.