Category: fun with electricity
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ain’t gotta wash no mo
We have a dish washer again! Well, we always had a dish washer. For the past eight months I’ve been the dish washer, after our dish washing machine broke down at the end of February. I don’t have the slightest idea how to troubleshoot repairs to dish washing machines so I didn’t even try and Read.
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scratching
If it’s Monday, this must be the last day of my stay-cation. What have I been doing with it? So glad you asked. (Just a note: I do not actually hear anybody talking to me as I type these words. Self-isolation has gone on a long time, but I am not at that point in Read.
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screwed
While mowing the lawn yesterday afternoon, I went to plug in at the outlet on the back of the garage and as I pushed the prongs of the plug into the face of the outlet, the outlet retreated into the wall. First time that’s ever happened to me. Then the weather-tight cover came off in Read.
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sniffing the air
“Do you smell something burning?” My Darling B asked me the other night as I was watching something on television. I put the program I was watching on pause, because that’s how you smell things better, and sniffed the air. “No,” I answered, “but then I can’t smell much at all right now.” We’re both Read.
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fiat lux
We’ve run into a slight hitch here at Our Humble O’Bode: We are temporarily without lights in our dining room and kitchen. At least I hope it’s temporary. I was all geared up to do a little home improvement last weekend: I wanted to install some track lights in the kitchen. The fixture in there Read.
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Fritz
Our clothes drier went on the fritz. It spun and spun and it blew a lot of air through the part where the clothes tumbled around, but it didn’t get hot any more so the clothes took hours and hours to dry. I asked teh Google why this might be. The thermostat or the heating Read.
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short circuit
Shortly before we left the house to go see the Gershwin Songbook, while we were sitting at the table eating lunch, the lights flickered and, from the direction of the garage, I heard an odd sort of growling noise. “That’s the second time it’s done that this morning,” B commented. “Really?” I asked. “Did you Read.
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improve
I’ve spent the morning and part of the afternoon making a few improvements around the house, starting with the book cases in the extra room. It used to be Tim’s room, but we’ve been using it as an office. That’s a highfalutin way of saying we put a desk in there that’s been buried under Read.
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amped
How to install a 3-way light switch: First, ask the google to show you a couple videos about installing 3-way switches. That way, you’ll find out that you need a four-strand wire to make them work before you do something stupid, like buying a hundred feet of standard three-strand electrical wire.* The 3-way switches that Read.
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