Real Kato Blog: Sunday Recap

Nothing today was quite as exciting as... anything else you can think of.

Sunday was not quite as interesting or exhausting as Saturday.

I didn't sit around doing absolutely nothing all day, as I had planned. I actually did some plumbing and electrical work. Yes, you read that right. Despite what you may have heard, I am still the man of the house around here. Okay, I guess I'm also (by default) the woman of the house, the cook, the gardener (who really should be fired), and the Person Who Makes Long Distance Decisions For My Household.

The plumbing involved fixing the downstairs toilet, which was leaking. It just needed a new flapper ball. When I see the words "flapper ball" it makes me think of a dance featuring women with short fringed dresses, bob haircuts, and yarn hats. But the happenings inside my toilet tank weren't quite as exciting as all that.

The electrical work was replacing a bunch of light switches and electrical outlets, to better match the new decor around here. (Who the hell decided that beige was a good color for electrical outlets?) Oh, and I'm also installing dimmer switches, an seductive idea that Crouching Hamster thought of months ago.

While I was struggling to rewire the GFI outlet in the kitchen underneath the cabinets, some lightning briefly knocked out the power. I had a brief moment of panic: I thought that maybe I had actually been working on a LIVE circuit, because maybe I'd turned off the wrong switch in the circuit breaker box. By the way, I've NEVER, EVER seen a circuit breaker box where all the switches were properly labeled. Switch #2 is labeled "kitchen recep + lts", but it doesn't actually affect any receptacle or light anywhere in the kitchen. Actually, I have no idea if it's connected to anything at all. Maybe it's wired to something in a neighbor's house. I can just imagine them cursing as their television keeps flicking on and off for no apparent reason.

It occurred to me that working on electrical outlets in the middle of a lightning storm was probably not the best idea, so I left the project half-finished. And that's doom for me, because any half-finished project in this house automatically becomes a multi-month project, as other projects (like sleeping, or drinking beer) assume higher precedence. Even tonight, when I could be rewiring more on switches, I'm instead working on a different half-finished project: reconfiguring my computer network. (By the way, I did figure out why DHCP isn't working... it's a deficiency with the PCI ethernet card that I'm using on my gateway computer. It was irritating to spend all that time thinking I screwed something up, when in fact it was never my fault at all. Grrr.)

Like I said... things here are not quite as exciting as a flapper ball.

Less than two weeks to BlogHer! I'm getting pretty excited. I got another mention on their web page, thanks to Surfette. I think I'm totally in love with her now... because I'm a whore for publicity.

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Posted by Ken in: life

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Comment #1 from Crouching Hamster (Guest)
2005 Jul 18 - 4:16 am : #

Tee hee. How to catch a man - once you've got him in the house, that is.

Comment #2 from Sonja (Guest)
2005 Jul 18 - 11:11 am : #

The phrase "flapper ball" does not make me thing of anything in a dress, that's for sure.

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