Neanderpundit

With pictures.

Begged off my saturday side gig because I have a migrane halo like a mother, the headache is coming my way like a freight train. I’m gonna go lie down and wait for it to run me over.

for good boots.

I can’t drive in boots, it kills my feet- but I have taken, more and more, to bringing work boots with me everywhere, because the hurt it lays down on my ankles and the plantar fascitis it causes me not to have adequate support are the bane of my existence.

That and all those damned manatees.

that there are a lot of things that are worse than wiring work in an old home.

Ours isn’t quite “post and tube” old, but it has a lot of issues with wire- the whole place was done in early BX, which is great, except that it’s early enough it’s cloth over rubber, and the blasted rubber deteriorates where it touches air- so often you have to cut back as much as three, four inches of the BX and repair it, which makes for a happy fun time. Then the wires embrittle in the box, so anytime you try to put a new component in the wires break easily. And the cloth wrap is a mess no matter what you do. Then theres the wonderful practice of running all the outlets in the room through the ceiling box, for which hopefully someone is being perpetually raped in hell by legions of thorny-cocked demons. Oh, and the old rocklath and plaster required mudrings whose threaded holes have long since deteriorated past the point of usefulness.

yeah, there’s probably things worse than wiring repairs in an old house. But I can’t think of them, at this moment.