Lights!
Posted in Books on 10/05/2007 04:53 pm by enjanerdSomething happened to our kitchen lights about a week ago and the switches stopped working. Ian and I went over to Home Depot and picked up a replacement and made an attempt at replacing the 3-way switch. The switch that was there before had a sliding dimmer, which was kind of annoying, and an on/off button which was unreliable at best. Not to mention the maintenance guys who work for our building could never figure out how to turn the lights off. They would just dim them all the way down.
So, we bought a new switch that just toggles back and forth and installed it as the internets instructed (it didn’t come packaged with instructions or anything) and now 2 of the 6 lights turn on and the other switch still doesn’t do anything. To be fair, 2 of the lights were out before… 1 which stopped working and the other, I think the bulb went out and we were lazy. But still, only half the lights work. It’s getting left like that for now since I don’t know anything about electricity and can’t figure out what the issue is without actually investing the wiring.
Just finished: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Very cool story-line, but much sappier than I thought was necessary. And as far as I could keep track, every side story was followed through and explained. As I was reading, I thought it was longer than it needed to be, but in the end, I didn’t feel like it dragged on and I was content with the ending. Pretty good, overall.
Next up: Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk.
Also, I thought I was just immature, but it’s not just me… one of my coworkers stopped by to giggle about an email we received today with an article about the new Chief of Naval Operations: Adm. Roughead.