I just got back this afternoon from Lake Tahoe with my family. Kevin and I decided that once we finish the little pond in our backyard, we will call it Lake Tahoe.
I had an awesome time with the lake, the water, and my family. I am taking classes online, and they did not let up for the Independence Day holiday. Neither do my grandparents have the internet at their cabin. So Alex (my ingenius but frustrating brother) just rode the golf cart around the area, refreshing his network list until he found a decent, unblocked network. So I'd drive out there, work on my classes for about 20 minutes until my battery died, and then freak out because it had died right in the middle of something.
The reason Alex's solution was a little frustrating (i.e., the battery dying and me huddling over my laptop in the dark with mosquitoes buzzing around me) was that the nextdoor neighbors had a great wireless signal. He just didn't get around to calling them. And when I got there, they had a bunch of guests, and then when we called them, they weren't home.
So I didn't do as much homework as I could have, should have.
When we got home, our house smelled a little funny, but we figured it was just stale house smell. But it wasn't.
Our fridge had somehow blown a fuse. Easily fixed by flipping the switch in the circuit breaker, but we apparently were several days too late to save the perishables.
I guess it's good to do a big, thorough fridge cleaning every once in a while. Like today, apparently. :)
2 comments:
Well the homework situation sounds super aggravating, but I guess you then had an excuse to actually relax and not work on it as much. So I guess all those old expired condiments lurking in the door are gone. Okay maybe your fridge is cleaner than ours usually is!
It's nice to hear that normal people know how to do easy repairs in their homes. I can't tell you how many times people call us claiming they don't have power, then I tell them to go flip the switch in the panel. They swear up and down that's not the case. Then Richard goes all the way over there in his super duty gas guzzling truck and spends 2 minutes resetting the breaker. Yea, we charge 60 bucks for those 2 minutes, 90 if it's at night or on a weekend. Sometimes I kinda' like those people though.
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