Crappy Music, Poor Commentary and Boring Topics: Saturday, April 24, 2010
This Past Week:
This past week has been another crazy week, but I guess you just have to laugh it off like a lot of things or they’ll drive you crazy. Actually, the week started off just fine. Work was good and I was moving ahead on my website projects on schedule and all was well. I was also developing some simple web forms and that was fine too.
On Tuesday we had done our second to the last radio show which was awesome … one of the best ever, lot’s of fun, lot’s of tunes and our guest was just the best. Ray L. who also reads this blog from time to time was our guest and he was just fabulous … and to be honest, I’d expect no less of him. He’s a pro at it and that makes all the difference when you’re doing a live show.
Wednesday was good day at work, Thursday started off well … well, until night that is 
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Here’s the scoop … since our electrical fire a few weeks ago, we’d thought we gotten everything under control. New electronics have arrived and we’ve gotten them all situated and working, basically without a hitch. After a few weeks of this we finally thought “great, finally we’re back to where we were before any of this occurred”.
Well, it seems there are always some thing you just plain forget about. Overheads lights for one. We have several over-head fluorescent lights in our house that we seldom, if ever, use. You know, you don’t use every light in your house everyday. As a mater of fact, if you think about it, there are probably a few lights you almost never use. This was the case in our house.
Thursday evening, for one reason or another Sher had placed the overhead lights on, in the dining room … one of those lights we so rarely use.
About an hour or so later, we were in the office when suddenly we got a whiff of that unforgettable scent that had covered the house when we had the electrical fire a few weeks back.
It’s a smell I won’t forget for a long time to come … still fresh in my memory, visions of a house fire flashed through my mind and immediately the adrenaline started to pump through my system.
I made my way toward the dining room and sure enough, the closer I got, the stronger the scent got. Damn! I yelled out to Sher to call the fire department again, as a light film of smoke started to appear at the ceiling level. That heavy scented smoke that thick with the smell of electrical.
Here we go again right! Instant replay. We went down to the basement and shut-off the circuit breakers to that section of the house, leaving in the dark once again, found our way outside and waited.
Flash forward a bit …. After the fire department arrived and checked everything out, we discovered that many of our head lights had taken damage during the original electrical fire and we never realized it.
While no new damage was done, we now need to replaced all the over-head lights and get that damn smell out of the house. Of course I missed a day of work because I wanted to be there when our electrician arrived at seven in the morning and make sure everything got covered and checked this time.
So a lesson learned, if you have an electrical situation like this, make sure you check everything, lights, electronics, switched etc etc., before starting the process of repair. Now Sher will have to write to the insurance company again and start all over … more time spent, more time wasted.
