But I am now having visions of the electrician shaking his head after looking at the busted GFCI circuit and telling me it's time to rewire my house, which would be a major thing, not least because many of the outlets to which they'd have to pull wire are behind things, or have a bookcase near enough them that they'd be hard to work around.
I suspect if it comes down to 'rewire,' I will have to box up tons of my stuff and just bung it into a storage unit for a while to make it easier for the electricians to work.
And yeah, because this is 2019 and all we're allowed to have is terrible news, I am fully expecting to be told my house must be rewired.
At least it didn't burn down overnight, therefore it is not likely to do so, at least from that outlet.
I would go antiquing or something for fun but I'm honestly scared enough now that I'll get in a car wreck that I don't want to go out on the interstate, and the only way to get anywhere with decent shopping requires getting in the interstate.
I give up.
And maybe, again, I try to fall silent, I know all this is boring to read, but literally all I do these days is work and deal with the minor crises in my life, so I have nothing else I can talk about. (And no one to talk to, which is why I dump it on the blog)
I know you all are tired of hearing about life beat up on me, trust me, I'm even more tired of experiencing it.
And yeah, this was on this morning, and you know? I'd happily trade my voice for a while for not feeling stuff so deeply for a while. And I suspect that a life without figurative rain would make you not so much miss the figurative rainbows:
And anyway, a lot of the time, I don't have anyone to talk to ANYWAY.
(And yeah, missing my fellow pony-fan Charles Hill a lot this week.)
1 comment:
If it is of any help, I don't think a failing GFI plug indicates the entire house needs to be rewired. Unless your house was built in the 40's with paper and tar wrapped wiring, or in later years with aluminum wiring, then the wires should be fine. The fact you have a breaker box and not the old-style screw-in fuse box suggests that the wiring is most likely new enough not to worry. I've replaced light switches, DR's (dual receptacles), and GFI DR's. Home electrical wiring is not that complicated, taking care, doing things slowly, ensuring bare wires are not close to other wires or metal items, and double or triple checking everything before turning the breaker on, has always yielded good results. (Being the son of a general contractor also helps.) I know the 'big box' stores (Home Depot, Lowe's) have books on basic home wiring, and I'm sure you could easily follow along and replace it yourself.
Then again, if you're tired of being the self rescuing princess, your local electrician shouldn't charge too much to swap it out for you.
And yes, I miss Charles too.
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