Mr Fixit
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Mr Fixit
or: Heat Wave
So it’s just past 3AM. Windows open, fans on, the house is just now dipping below 80°F. So why not turn on the AC? Because I took them out this morning to make room for new units coming tomorrow. The old units were just that, old. Loud, inefficient and barely up to the task. The new ones border on overkill. But wait, there’s more. There’s not a 3 prong outlet in the house…D’oh! The house is even older than the AC units I’m tossing and was wired long before grounded outlets were standard equipment. Fortunately the gang boxes themselves are grounded which means I can, with the addition of a few inches of grounding wire per box, use basic $2 grounded outlets rather than fancy, shmancey, $25 GFCI outlets (the ones with the reset button you see in modern bathrooms) So, guess who spent the rest on the day hunched over on his knees re-wiring gang boxes? Aw, you guessed. My late brother Willi would be proud to know his baby brother ain’t no deckie.
I was going to do a shot of Tony Stark fixing something but I just did an Iron Man piece not too long ago. I don’t believe I’ve ever done Reed for the weekly sketch so…
Happy Trails
Smitty