electricity is fun!

i live in an old house… and i'm poor… so i am therefore required to be a do-it-yourselfer… and when your house is 80+ years old, electricity is more of a convenience in certain areas of your home. garage? nope. outside the house? not really there either. the basement? one plug. i sought to remedy this situation.

i've never ran a completely new line before, so this was something new. and i thought that i would start with the end, rather than the beginning. this part of the story is boring, so i was going to send you to flingthecow.com just because it sounds like a fun site, but it's down. how sad.

moving on…

so i get everything hooked up, right? and i'm using this ground fault circuit indicating receptacle thingy (i sounded smart for a second) to stop from people (me) getting shocked when they do stupid things (grab toaster, plug in, jump in bathtub). and see everything was fine. working perfectly. and then i went to screw it into it's box, and *CLICK*. stupid thing. i don't have wet hands. don't turn off! i go to push the reset butt*CLICK*. dammit.

unscrew. reset. fine. screw in. click. dammit. repeat about ten times.

so then i turn off the power. reset it. screw it all the way in. turn on the powe*BOOM*.

ever really see a shower of sparks? like, in person? like, 8 inches away? hehe. yeah, it's not as much fun as you might think.

anyway. eventually i found a loose wire and fixed it. yay. now i can use a light, 2 blenders and a power saw in my work room at the same time. but that's another story.