Scientist, Drummer, Dog Owner person.

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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Have an electrician come map your outlets. They find the connections in the breaker panel, then they trace them out to figure out where they go and what they do. Your contractor may be right, but as someone that bought a house that’s over 100 years old, it’s just as likely that the switch goes nowhere/isn’t live, or powers something you’d NEVER think of, or powers something that you can’t even see because someone put a drywall facade over it or some other weirdness!

    We discovered that we had a LIVE outlet, under our living room floor. For some reason, at some point someone decided that needed an outlet literally in the middle of the living room floor (coffee table lame is my guess). The previous owner/flipper put feaux-hardwood laminate down in the whole house and instead of deactivating it, they just put the flooring right over the top of it and its live 100 year old cloth wrapped wires, leaving us a lovely little fire hazard! That outlet was controlled by, you guessed it, the mystery switch on the wall next to the front door that didn’t seem to do anything.













  • Staying inbounds and getting smashed to pick up half an extra yard instead of going out of bounds when he already had a first. Flubbing the snap, picking it up and then immediately running full force into the D line and tumbling (again) instead of just taking the sack or throwing it away. Forcing the ball into triple coverage to get it intercepted instead of settling for three. Running into three defenders in open field instead of just sliding.

    He looked like 2018 Allen tonight and 2018 Allen was not good.