Seriously. WTF.

This would make the second time in the last hour I've gotten back from flipping the circuit breakers for my bedroom. It goes like this: come in. Flip on power strip. Computer and space heater turn on. Two seconds later, circuit breaks. Room plunged into darkness. Go put on shoes, coat, headlamp. Flip circuit breakers. Go in. Turn off space heater. Turn on computer, mess about. Decide a little heat would be nice...

...and it's worked more than a dozen times before to have the computer and the space heater on at the same time...

...But no, tonight the space heater comes on and two seconds later the circuit breaks.

No heat for you!

So, I need to get a new space heater. What do I need to look for in terms of volts or amps? The old one... Looks like 70s-era... When it came on, I could tell, even in the bathroom, because the lights dimmed. I think that's an Amp thing?

In which I reveal deep, meaningful things

Naw, actually, it's just a fuck-ton of quizzes. I'm emptying out at least one open message in Eudora, dammit!

(Yay! This post got so large it froze Semagic and required a Ctrl-Atl-Del shutdown. But, the next time I turned Semagic on, there it was, magically saved!

Moral of the story: I should maybe, y'know, put these things up a weee bit more often. Given that I haven't finished emptying out even one of four dumps for them...)

( The quizzes have deep, meaningful commentary! Maybe. )

Another dose of quizzes

Haiku by zdashamber

in the caravan do exactly what i say and you may live and

Username: Haiku! by Hutta.

Here, I'm determined to empty out that open message quizdump. (Many quizzes later: or not, y'know. Sleeping is also sometimes nice.)

( IT'S... more quizzes )

Wizard needs amperage badly

Aw, hell. So, thanks to tlatoani I've started looking into amperage. Turns out it's easy to figure out the amperage of anything: America's voltage is a relatively constant 120, so you take the number of watts and divide it by 120, and voila, amps. For instance, my erring space heater, which sucks down 1500 watts, is taking up 12.5 amps on my circuit.

Trouble is? Every single space heater sold Also sucks down 12.5 amps. Or at least, all 8-12 I saw today while out searching.

And my circuit? Is 15 amps.

( So just now I was figuring how many amps I use in day-to-day living )