Had a near-disaster yesterday that I totally attribute to tx brain fog.
I got home from work a few hours past supper-time.  Placed a couple of
slices of dark wheat bread in the toaster to prepare a sandwich.  I then
left the toaster to it's job and proceeded to call my grandson on the phone.
Had a short conversation, removed my hearing aids and took a magazine into
the bathroom with me for some quiet reading, etc..
I thought I heard a strange whistling sound in the water pipes, but ignored
it.  After a few minutes my wife (who had been taking a nap on the couch)
bangs on the door screaming:  "Can't you hear all the smoke detectors
blaring?"
Of course, I couldn't hear the alarms with no hearing aids and the bathroom
door closed.  I had completely forgotten about the toaster.  I hastily
completed the task at hand and went to investigate.
Turns out the bread had stuck in the toaster, preventing it from popping up
and turning off the heating elements.  With the toaster staying on for what
must have been 10-15 minutes the bread then caught fire, singed the
over-hanging cabinet, and filled the house with smoke as the alarms went
off.
The wife awakened with a terrified start, ran to the kitchen and managed to
unplug the toaster.  But she is too short to reach the alarms to turn them
off.  She also tends to freak out a bit when under stress.  In this case I
can't fault her for that.
Anyway,  the whole house now stinks of smoke and melted electrical wires.
At least it didn't cause a big fire.
I set up fans and opened as many windows as possible to try and clear the
smoke.  Outside temperatures was 20 degrees F, so I wasn't able to keep the
windows open very long.
All-in-all a stupid incident that shouldn't have happened.
Wife is definitely not favorably impressed.

A few things I learned:
- Don't play with fire (electrical or otherwise) while on tx
 unless you keep it under immediate observation.
- Don't trust electrical appliances to do what they're
 designed to do.
- German dark wheat bread creates really smelly smoke
  way out of proportion to it's mass once it becomes charcoal
  and is ignited.
- Solid oak cabinets will take a lot of heat before bursting
 into flames (thank God).
- Almost setting the house on fire and filling it with smoke
 causes the wife to forget to comment on how much I
 stunk up the bathroom while "reading, etc."!

Thom