I don't like flea's house thing! It does not sound like good juju to buy a house in poor repair. I just got done sending an email to my sellers to figure out some weird issues (why would an HVAC grille seem to screw from the attic?), so they're not all bad!
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Aug 30, 2014 7:07:11 pm PDT #5231 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
aurelia - Aug 30, 2014 7:25:58 pm PDT #5232 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
-t, sounds like your fixture is wired in series, two tubes to a ballast. [link]
I don't think I can help with blown fuse without more information.
Consuela - Aug 30, 2014 7:29:51 pm PDT #5233 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't think I can help with blown fuse without more information.
The plot thickens! My sister brought my dad over with his voltmeter (he lives in assisted living! Why does he still have a voltmeter!) and we tested the fuse box, and-- it's dead. There's another fuse box somewhere, but god knows where. Probably in the crawlspace. Damn it. I don't know where else it could be...
aurelia - Aug 30, 2014 8:29:40 pm PDT #5234 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Consuela, do you have overhead or underground lines? If you know where service comes into the house you might be able to trace it that way.
Consuela - Aug 30, 2014 9:16:42 pm PDT #5235 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Overhead. I'll look tomorrow.
meara - Aug 31, 2014 1:32:54 am PDT #5236 of 30000
If any LAista wants to join me, let me know and I'll get more groceries if you'll bring Ziplocs for yourself and split some of the grocery bill.
That sounds awesome, if I were an LAista!
Instead, I am in Charles De Gaulle airport for the next six hours. With a headache and very little sleep. That may have been business class but damn it was uncomfortable. Hoping to just make it to my hotel tonight, fall into bed, and get a good night's sleep and be not so jet lagged. I hope. I'm annoyed to have a five hour layover, but glad I'm not racing for the plane that is taking odd in just a few minutes, especially since mine was about half an hour delayed.
Having a headache does rather put the kibosh on my options of internet vs read my kindle though. Napping would be good but there's nowhere to spread out, sadly.
-t - Aug 31, 2014 3:34:39 am PDT #5237 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, aurelia! Slightly less mysterious. I'm guessing the ballasts are wired in aparLlel to each other, but the two slots in each ballast are in series. I still don't really get why mixing the types of bulbs works when having two narrower tubes in the same ballast doesn't, but I can accept it without understanding why.
Go away, headache bothering meara. I hope your trip gets better right quick!
Jesse - Aug 31, 2014 3:50:34 am PDT #5238 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Where are you going again, meara?
meara - Aug 31, 2014 4:07:50 am PDT #5239 of 30000
I'm going to Prague, Dresden, Wroclaw, and Krakow.
Am hoping I'll fall into bed at the hotel when I get there (in six-ish hours?) and wake up in the morning ready to tourist like a maniac. Luckily even if I don't, no one is expecting me until my brother arrived Wednesday night.
Theodosia - Aug 31, 2014 4:24:21 am PDT #5240 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Consuela, sounds like a job for a professional electrician now. You've done the due diligence to make sure it's not something easily repairable. I sure hope the repair isn't too expensive!
Scrappy, that's really cool! What form did the pot come in? Do they write out the prescription in Doctorese? MA has passed medical marijuana laws... two years ago.
Still wrangling over the dispensaries and where they go and what diseases they can be prescribed for. (I'm really hoping that my fibromyalgia will be one of them -- I have a hunch that it could shorten the episodes and ease recurrence.)
And I echo Jesse about where you're going, meara!