Baggage
I blew up my internets. Seriously. There were sparks and badness, and now the power is blown for the whole loft space of the apartment, and I seem to have fried the router. Serves me right for trying to iron stuff. Back to wrinkly slackerdom for me. Hopefully this issue can be resolved peacefully, though nothing in our current apartment is so simple. The power is routed willy-nilly all over the place, without a circuit breaker in sight. If I learned that the electricity in our apartment was actually generated by rising heat from the ninth circle of hell, I wouldn't really be surprised.
Off to Arizona tonight...carrying a ridiculous amount of luggage. I'm usually a backpacking, carry-on kinda girl, but on this trip I'm hauling a hand-me-down computer for mom. She has had the same one since 1994, so this will be a big improvement. Computer tower in one big suitcase, LCD monitor in a slightly smaller one. Never in my life have I hauled so much baggage with me on a trip, but it will be worth it. The mom-ster got a new digital camera for Christmas, but her old computer is too old to really use it with. Hopefully I remembered to pack all the parts and cables to put it together for her.
For some reason I totally want one of these, but only if they can make it say LYSSA!.
Off to Arizona tonight...carrying a ridiculous amount of luggage. I'm usually a backpacking, carry-on kinda girl, but on this trip I'm hauling a hand-me-down computer for mom. She has had the same one since 1994, so this will be a big improvement. Computer tower in one big suitcase, LCD monitor in a slightly smaller one. Never in my life have I hauled so much baggage with me on a trip, but it will be worth it. The mom-ster got a new digital camera for Christmas, but her old computer is too old to really use it with. Hopefully I remembered to pack all the parts and cables to put it together for her.
For some reason I totally want one of these, but only if they can make it say LYSSA!.
posted by lyssa at 4:20 PM
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I'm sure they could. That might be part of the CUSTOM logo.
Okay this?:If I learned that the electricity in our apartment was actually generated by rising heat from the ninth circle of hell, I wouldn't really be surprised. cracked me up no end. In fact, the apartment I used to live in (and have since been razed) did use that source.
Have fun in AZ!
has since.
I used to live in one that had a treadmill for the cockroaches. You opened the kitchen door, and all those frantically racing little feet would power the overhead light . . .
Well, I did fix the power. It was a macabre adventure. I had not read this blog post yet... so I was not prepared for the 9th circle. What I actually expected was a room full of the animated skeletons and the assorted animated corpses of the damned on treadmills... so really that is pretty close. I see we think alike.
What I actually found was much worse. Almost the entire apartment is fed by a single (SINGLE!) circuit which goes to a pair of 50Amp breakers. That's right... a single 100 Amp circuit.
The reason no tripped breaker was found was because the short circuit slagged one of the countless sockets in the spider web of power distribution in our apartment and effectively cut off the rest. The breaker never tripped.
So I replaced the socket, and now there is power. The Casbah has electric lighting for the first time. It is quite nice. Leo likes it in there, and is happy I am now spending time in there working on the book.
Ok, have fun in Arizona, and all of you readers... know that the "spark" she described was not just some dorky blue flash... 120 volts will ionize an airgap of more than a centimeter, with inductive back EMF it could have been many times that. A 100 Amp arc looks about the same as any other 10,000 watt gas discharge light... so we are talking some serious Mad Science here.
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