I thought I'd stop by here and update something different than on xanga. On Wednesday I decided to chase each of the fused circuits to their first outlet/junction box and then replaced the wiring between the fuse box and there with a new peiece of wire so I'd be sure to have enough length on each one for the new breaker panel. On Thursday I spent the biggest part of the day removing the fuse box and replacing it with the new panel. Most of the installation was fairly routine though it was a step by step time consuming chore in places. I was going to just reuse the old furnace circuit and leave hooking up the new one for later but in pulling the wire into the new box, which I had energized, I shorting the ground wire against one of the hot terminals and burned the wire off. God IS good though as I had already pulled the new wire and it was hanging there so I just had to take the few extra minutes to wire it into the furnace. The only other snag was the circuit to the garage would go on then off. I finally determined that one side of the 220 v on the 30A breaker was loose and not making contact. Praise God for bringing that to my attention before it caused heat, maybe damage to the new box, or possibly a fire. The #6 wire is just about as big as you can get into the 1/2 inch breakers and I'm thinking I may change that circuit to 1" breakers. I realize that all you non-electrical people are lost by now but suffice it to say I got the job completed. Now I need to start updating the wiring in the walls.
Yesterday was the parade in town but my wife and I decided we weren't going (you see one fire truck, you've seen them all) and instead went to Ikea in the A.M. In the afternoon it was to the in-laws for a cookout and a party for the July birthdays. In the P.M. we returned home and went out into the front lawn around 10 PM to watch the fireworks from the park up over the hill.
Today is church day. I go to worship band practice from 4:00PM to around 5:45PM then the church service is from 6 PM to around 7:15-7:30PM.
Well, once again, I'm here to blog as xanga seems to have disappeared. I tried numerous times throughout yesterday and now this morning to get in but can't. I received reports from them for yesterday but it appears only a couple of people were able to get in. I guess xanga's loss is blogger's gain.
We found the fans yesterday and I bought a couple of pparts for the new electric panel, which I may start on today. I ran a new wire over to the furnace so I can install that when I'm ready to change things over. As I stated yesterday, I'm loath to get started on the actual switch over as you never know what problems you may encounter.
So, it's been a fairly boring start to my week off of work. If I could update my xanga sites I'd at least feel like I was doing part of my "ministry." I know there are probably none of my readers coming here to read my blogs. Oh well, take care and God Bless!
Apparently xanga must be under another DDOS attack as I haven't been able to get in there since yesterday afternoon. It used to make me upset but as they grow I wonder if another blog company could be behind the attacks?
Yesterday we got the shelving put together, one daughter did some painting, and then we did a bit of cleaning around the house. After that we ate and then my daughters rented "The Emporer's Club" DVD and we watched it. Not a great movie but not entirely bad either. On today's agenda is going out to look for those small fans with clips on them. They like to put them at the headboard of their beds. I also want to look at the new electric panel I bought and see if I'm ready to change our one fuse box over to a breaker box. Not a huge job, but one I'm still loath to take on.
Start of "editorial" for today! I've been reading some pretty disturbing things about how google, the new owners of blogger, are keeping some pretty serious records on all of us that use their search engine and, probably, that use these blogs. Invasion of privacy is a pretty serious thing and if what I've read is true, I wonder when the government is going to step in. They have the best search engine and have been my choice for a long time and the fact that they cache all web pages makes them a fount of information, but does this all come at the price of a complete loss of privacy? Does someone need to keep a database of every web site I visit? Check your "cookies" and you'll find the google tracking cookie there. In fact, if you run Ad Aware and Spybot on your computer you'll find alot of intrusive cookies are planted in your system and relaying your every move on the net back to databases. And you thought this was all free? This is beginning to look like the classic big brother syndrom and though it's now being run by big business trying to exploit you for a quick buck, how long before the government makes use of all that info they have on you? End of "editorial" for today!
