Oh, how lovely
Nov. 28th, 2006 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayThis has not been one of my better mornings :-(
The circuit for the lights downstairs blew out. We had a light burn out (literally, there was smoke and icky smells) in the hallway on Friday and it took the light fitting with it. Worryingly, we also lost two other bulbs downstairs Friday evening but these were quickly replaced. However, an electrician was called out on Saturday to check that nothing was wrong with the circuitry on the hall light. He helpfully replaced the light fitting (something Mum could have done herself...) and that was it.
This morning the downstairs hall light was perfectly happy when I went down first thing, but when Da turned on a kitchen light half an hour later all the downstairs lights went ping. Emergency electrician has been called because even if it's just a fuse wire that needs replacing, our circuit board is rather too worrying to do it ourselves. We're also looking at getting it changed for breaker circuits so we don't need to call electricians to do these things. My thought is that it would be a good idea to have the electrician check and find out why things have been blowing, burning out and short-circuiting. I won't be impressed if we replace the fuse wire and lose the lights again two days down the line.
After that funness, the weather was dreadful on the drive in - roads resembling shallow rivers, a rather deep flood next a train station (feel so sorry for any commuters trying to walk to that station...) and a motorway in driving rain that my windscreen wipers couldn't quite cope with. Wheee! I am also very, very, very tired so I was struggling to stay awake during that nasty drive.
In fact, I am more tired than I was yesterday despite not watching Torchwood, going to bed at 9pm and sleeping through to my alarm. Grrr.
Putting all of this together, adding in a leak in the work canteen and sprinkling with some incredibly slow data warehouse vibes on top is making Sel rather grumpy today. All I want to do is crawl under my desk and go to sleep. I need to re-read yesterday's good things list, I think.
The circuit for the lights downstairs blew out. We had a light burn out (literally, there was smoke and icky smells) in the hallway on Friday and it took the light fitting with it. Worryingly, we also lost two other bulbs downstairs Friday evening but these were quickly replaced. However, an electrician was called out on Saturday to check that nothing was wrong with the circuitry on the hall light. He helpfully replaced the light fitting (something Mum could have done herself...) and that was it.
This morning the downstairs hall light was perfectly happy when I went down first thing, but when Da turned on a kitchen light half an hour later all the downstairs lights went ping. Emergency electrician has been called because even if it's just a fuse wire that needs replacing, our circuit board is rather too worrying to do it ourselves. We're also looking at getting it changed for breaker circuits so we don't need to call electricians to do these things. My thought is that it would be a good idea to have the electrician check and find out why things have been blowing, burning out and short-circuiting. I won't be impressed if we replace the fuse wire and lose the lights again two days down the line.
After that funness, the weather was dreadful on the drive in - roads resembling shallow rivers, a rather deep flood next a train station (feel so sorry for any commuters trying to walk to that station...) and a motorway in driving rain that my windscreen wipers couldn't quite cope with. Wheee! I am also very, very, very tired so I was struggling to stay awake during that nasty drive.
In fact, I am more tired than I was yesterday despite not watching Torchwood, going to bed at 9pm and sleeping through to my alarm. Grrr.
Putting all of this together, adding in a leak in the work canteen and sprinkling with some incredibly slow data warehouse vibes on top is making Sel rather grumpy today. All I want to do is crawl under my desk and go to sleep. I need to re-read yesterday's good things list, I think.
