the joys of electricity

Last night I got home to discover the parental house's powerpoints weren't working. The lights were fine, but the powerpoints weren't playing ball. I checked the fusebox and...discovered a lot of switches. Flippy things. Without instructions. And definitely not intuitive. Call me an electrical dinosaur, but I like the old ceramic fuses with their wires. So much simpler to deal with!

Anyway, I tried to flip the 'Power' switch back on...and it promptly flipped off again. Couldn't work out how to reset it, so I left it.

Result? All plug-in-electricals have been off in the house for the last fifteen hours, including the fridge/freezer, the TV, and the modem.

I just hope they don't find themselves having to eat all the meat in the freezer in the next 2 days!

I've discovered that I don't sleep well at the parental house when the parentals aren't home. Too busy fretting about the cats I'm minding and what they might do while I'm sleeping...like pee in my clothing. Thank heavens it's only for a few days and the parentals are back this morning.

Still, the result is that I'm pretty much exhausted after the weekend and am looking forward to going back and sleeping in my own bed with my kitty.

This is the point at which I could probably use a Nikola Tesla icon, right?

SGA Legacy - The Lost!

CAN HAZ!

*squees*

Random quote:

There was a wild rustling and an eruption of movement. Winged things were beating against his legs and blundering against his chest and face, and he swung his P90 to track them by instinct, just barely managing not to fire. To his right, machine gun fire sounded like thunder, way too close on the narrow, icy balcony.

"Hold your fire!" he yelled. Feathers swirled around them in the wind. Hernandez lowered his weapon, already starting to look sheepish.

"Way to blow away those pigeons," Jacobs said. "Could have been a real threat to the city there."

Oh, and then later, Radek takes them to task for shooting at defenceless birds:

"Is it that they were threatening you in some way? You feared for your life if they pecked you with their little pigeon beaks?"

*giggles*

So, there goes the afternoon and evening. Except for the part where I have hockey training for an hour and a half... Oops.

eta: If this was the TV show, Hernandez and Jacobs would become the next Lorne/Parrish. Slightly hilarious.