18 January 2024

The ice-capades of ‘24 are almost over, we made good use of the time yesterday getting some repairs done on the house. Some tiles needed caulking and I replaced a ceiling fan in the office. The old fan might have been from the original build since it had a 60’s look to it, but also it’s frailty. The reason I needed to replace the fan was that all of the previous fan blades had broken, one by one each fan broke by simply raising my hands. When taking off a shirt I’d lift my hands forgetting there’s something above my head, then smack and down falls a blade. That happened four times and we broke the remaining one intentionally. The replacement went about as well as I could hope, of course the circuit was turned off, but when I got in the ceiling and disconnected the wires there was an additional mystery white wire. I didn’t touch it though as I was pulling the old fan off the ceiling a small shot of electricity was transferred to me. No injuries were had and my wife gave good advice that we should wait until we aren’t stranded incase we need to go to the hospital, still I pushed on and got the job done. The reason we’re still unable to leave is our driveway is a big hill and everything is iced over, maybe today it will thaw and there should be rain tonight to help finish the job, then we return to normal. Part of me misses the snow as it is pretty and brings back memories of my snow job, but snow is a major inconvenience. Hot weather isn’t all sunshine, but it doesn’t stop me from walking down the driveway.