What Are You Doing?

There you go creating another fable

YOU WANTED TO

 

Woke up 10pm...now midnight.
Still sore all over.
Haven't tweaked anything, just good ol' strained muscles.
Downloading a bunch of forging, machining, manufacturing & construction and motorsport docos...some recent, some from decades ago.

- 1969 British tobacco production.
- 1930-39 American car engine production.
- 1960 Ford's rouge river factory.
- Audi @ 2011 LeMans 24hr.
- and some Jordan B Peterson and other psyche vids.

 

I'm trying to decide if I want to go to Target or not. Part of me doesn't want to deal with crowds, but the other part of me needs some stuff.

 

at work working on a grant proposal and thinking about my WIP....

 

Installing my new dishwasher. This was an excellent way to find out my breakers are labeled wrong. It's been a long time since I've been electrocuted, so it was an interesting experience all over again. And now I have to reset all my clocks...

 

Occasionally glancing outside and wondering how I got sucked into a Silent Hill game. Nothing but thick slimy fog and booming sounds coming from outside. At least I'm comfortable assuming that these booming sounds are thunder.

Is this what winter is now!? Damn climate change. I want my snow back.

-SIN

 

Welcome to my life. I order online for everything these days. I hate hate hate going out to stores. People - ew.

 

I didn't go to Target. I will tomorrow though, because that feels better than today.

 

Always assume breakers are mislabeled. If you didn't do it yourself, it's probably screwed up. Test the circuit before you work on it! Get a meter if you don't have one. Saves a lot of clock-resetting time and voltage-induced hallucinations.

 

It feels better now, but tomorrow you won't want to deal with it.

 

I have one, I just got lazy. It's okay, I've been electrocuted worse on aircraft maintenance. Just more shocking than expected.

 

The Mrs and I just got home from the Trans Siberian Orchestra show at The Nutter Center. Good show, good company, bad chairs. We’re not doing floor seats next year.

 

I didn't have to go out today. I do tomorrow, so I'll be more prepared for being in public.

 

Oh no!

You were electrocuted???

And you're just worried about your clocks?

 

i'm frustratedly trying to write... i told myself i would finish part 2 by the end of november. I am literally like 1 chapter away from being done and i hit a block. i cant THINK of anything and I had been thinking about how i would wrap it up ALL FLIPPING DAY while I was at work... and now that im home... nothing

 

It's nothing, really. Honestly just feels like something buzzing super hard on a spot on your body. Hand clenches, but it wasn't strong enough to prevent me releasing the wire, so no damage done.

And yes,I'm more annoyed i need to reset six different clocks now on top of my dishwasher installation.

It's nice to have a dishwasher again though.

 

This is why they say to write your ideas down; because you can never count on remembering later. And who can argue with such experts as they.

 

Listening to some music. Had to accept that what
I wanted to 'see' on a Slayer vid was not acceptable
for all viewers. When the hell did that happen? O_0
You mean Slayer isn't meant for the kiddies? Well
no shit.

 

Watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 and relaxing.....kinda. While eating some last minute noodles. Well it was MST3K wrapped that up. Now it`s Eddie Burback a YouTube comedy commentary channel i`ve been watching a lot lately. These video`s are also about bad movies...it`s a kick.





Today`s been.....not great. Just things at work did not go smoothly at all and my self esteem kinda got hit like a bag of bricks. Really don`t even feel like going back there right now....but i`m off for the next three days so....off for my holidays. Was supposed to go back and have two days of deep cleaning which I was looking forward to for a change of pace in the slow season. However the room count ticked up for the whole week randomly so no just back to the chaos. Today was pure raw chaos running around, keeping fifty plates in the air at once, and all the other things i`m not really good at. My routines were all mucked up, had to babysit a questionable new person, and all my glitches were showing.

Got off, found my excema cream under the pharmacy first aid section (WHY?), and went straight home. Small business Saturday was gonna go out to the local book store and comic shop (two different stores) but just wasn`t feeling it. Can go later on. Shopping local is a everyday thing anyways not just a one day thing. Came home, listened to a few Bob Dylan songs, took a nap, woke up, more nap, and then just kinda sat here until now...it`s midnight now.

That`s a wasted day. Don`t know if the hotel is really where I should be, idk this week started out so well and smoothly. Thought it was going well, but I don`t feel like it moved the needle in anything. Always end up circling around the same place.

The voices are telling me that I should get some sleep because tomorrow might be good for something.

 

Depending on your work situation, a small note pad and pen or a voice recorder to snag those tiny gems of insight for later use. I lost a ton of thoughts back in the day when I'd tell myself I'd remember them.

It could also be a psych block, that you're proactive when not in writing time, but you have nothing when you are free to write. A few experiments would reveal what's going on.

My book has taken me a decade to write, and it's not an epic, not even close. The delays were always internal issues. I did the bulk of the book in the last 2 years.

 

Back in the day, headphones with my music were the only way I could last more than 15 minutes in crowds. Back then I'd yet to understand and develop filters and self control of my empathic sensitivity.

I no longer need to use music to remain partially disconnected from the high level of energy in public spaces, but I still prefer to listen to mellow ambient when out and about.

 

Awoke around midnight.
Flicked on me overhead bed lamp
Oh how wonderful, a guardian angel had been literally watching over me as I slept.

Spoiler

The ceiling above me bed. Legs spread out, the size of your palm.
Made a coffee, spider is gone, but still in me room somewheres.

 

My introduction to electrocution was a dumbass teacher in primary school.
He got the whole class to make a circuit by each of us holding each other's finger between finger and thumb, then two students touched the ends of a generator that pumped out 40V and unknown amps.
He pulsed us for a second, and I can still recall the jarring sensation of all my bones.

Then years later I unintentionally snagged an electrical apprenticeship at a leather factory that looked like it has been built at the turn of the century.
My main tutor was the young guy that just finished his apprenticeship. He was crazy as a coconut radio, which means we had tons o fun together, but his practical jokes resulted in a number of electrocutions.

My two fav stories of me and he getting zapped.

Spoiler: My turn...

We were beginning to rewire a section of the factory that was getting new machinery. The original wiring was a mess, the whole factory was. Instead of tracing a 415V cable back to it's source to find out if it was live or not, he told me it was dead and I should cut it with me wire cutters.

I resisted due to one, that's not the safety procedure and, two, he'd played tricks on me before.
My counter arguments and defiance of his orders were ignored and eventually I had to cut the wire.

Instantly there was a loud bang, spark and puff of smoke, the cutters flew outa my hand and landed several feet away. I miised out on electrocution due to insulation on the tool handle. He proudly smiled and said, "Good, now we know this wire is live." Asshole used me and my new tools to find this out.

The cutters had a decent hole burnt out of the blade.

Spoiler: His turn...

Overtime in the dark, no idea why this was so, after a day of heavy rain, and still raining, the effluent pump at the back of the factory had stopped. The pump room, lower than ground level, a really dumb design, had about a foot of water in it. The pumps were well above the flood waters, and we stacked a few wooden pallets in front of the control board to remain dry and safe while checking out what had happened.

The usual thing in this factory, blown fuses. He gave me the job of replacing the fuses and checking out the circuitry, while he stood on the step in the doorway, out of the rain and out of the flooded floor.

Before I flicked the on switch I cautioned perhaps he should step outside just in case the floor was electrified by all the water, seeing as there must have been some earthing problem to blow the fuses as the circuitry checked out. He said it was okay. I flicked the switch and he let out a howl and jumped about 3 feet out into the rain. He got a full 415v up through his boots from the wet steps.

It was so hilarious and amazing to see a person jump backwards so far. In one momment he was in front of me, in less than the blink of an eye, where he go? ˜laughs˜

After than experience, he grabbed a high KW voltage tranny and wired it up to the electrician's door, as we lock it when out due to non maintenance folks pilfering supplies. He always danced with joy after finding out some folks got zapped quite hard.

 

Downloading some more vids...
- The Rudolf Diesel story.
- Audi @ 2008 LeMans.
- Metal forming 1959
- NASA Space Centre construction 1967
- 3 more car production vids from the 50-60s.
( mein himmel, assembly lines back in the day and in B&W seem to depict the slave labor model that rich company owners employ to make tons o profit).
- A part of a doco on The Great Depression - the Ford Rouge River plant.
- Relocating a bunch of huge wind turbines.
- Navy Ship dry dock maintenance.
- V2 rockets at White Sands.
- B24 & B29 Bomber construction.
- Morris Gazette Production 1939.
- Japanese Swordsmithery.
- Sinking a huge ship to make artifical reef.
- Floating deep sea oil rig.
- American truck production factory.
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky doco.
- More Terrence McKenna vids.

 

I got zapped once while stripping wallpaper around a 110outlet. (The scraper slipped and hit the poles just right) Actually it was about the best I'd felt all that day.