{"id":437,"date":"2008-01-23T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/lighting-game-vs-work-elliptical\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T12:22:00","slug":"lighting-game-vs-work-elliptical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/lighting-game-vs-work-elliptical\/","title":{"rendered":"lighting, game vs. work, elliptical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My room-mate decided he wanted to put in some dimmer switches on the dining room and upstairs bathroom lights.  He was off yesterday and went to Lowe&#8217;s to buy the dimmer switches and was working on the dinning room when I got home.    He had trouble removing the old switch and accidentally broke off the wires in the switch &#8211; so, we really needed to get the new one installed and were running out of daylight.<\/p>\n<p>I started helping and we read the instructions and tried several combinations.   Either the dimmer didn&#8217;t work, we got nothing, or the wires in the switch started to heat up and glow.   I&#8217;m not an expert on this, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, about to give up, we looked at the packaging and realized that he had bought two different types of switches &#8211; and we were using the wrong type for the set up we had.   So, we opened up the other switch, installed it according to the directions, and it worked perfectly. <\/p>\n<p>A variety of lessons learned with that task.    Mainly that I need to do a little more research on electrical wiring and perhaps review some first-aid training.  Just in case&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get Overlord to play again last night &#8211; still no good.  I was, however, able to install an old copy of dreamweaver so that I could do some work at home.     Now, that&#8217;s just wrong.  I can&#8217;t play games, but I can work?  At home?  Seems really unfair.  I blame Vista.<\/p>\n<p>I used the elliptical last night &#8211; first time since it had been fixed.   Worked fine, though it seemed a little wobbly.  I&#8217;ll need to look into that I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s it for now.   Back to work and finally back to the pool today after my jury duty.<\/p>\n<p>later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-21614015469809956?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My room-mate decided he wanted to put in some dimmer switches on the dining room and upstairs bathroom lights. He was off yesterday and went to Lowe&#8217;s to buy the dimmer switches and was working on the dinning room when I got home. He had trouble removing the old switch and accidentally broke off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}