Today was spent replacing all the bits and pieces that make up a doorbell. The old transformer was on the electrical panel so that was simple task of opening the panel, killing the breaker that powered the transformer, putting the new one in and buttoning everything back up.
Then came the fun part - tracing the wires to find where everything was junctioned. Once I found the place where everything came together, a quick test with my meter showed power was making it from the transformer to the junction. This meant the wiring was still good and doorbells would be powered.
Then I replaced the old chime with her new one and tested it out. This caused the dog to bark like a maniac. After that it was simply a matter of replacing the two doorbell buttons.
Now her little dog goes insane whenever someone pushes the doorbell button.
Tomorrow or Monday, the new carriage lights she ordered should arrive nd I can put them up.
The existing ones are fancy-shmancy timer/light/motion sensor things that don't work very well. She flips her lights on and they turn off after few minutes. That's not what she wants. No one wants that. I have no idea how the person that lived there before her accepted that.
So she ordered up two nice simple light fixtures that have no sensors, they just turn on when the light switch is flipped up and they turn off when the light switch is flipped down. She already has a smart home hub so all she has to do is buy two bulbs that can be controlled by the hub. That means she can leave the light switch on, set up a control program that turns the lights on at sundown, dims them at 10:00 or 11:00 so they don't bother the neighbors and finally turns them off at dawn.
This may also cause her dog to go a little nuts but not insane like when the doorbell rings.
The Patriots got their ass kicked last night but the Red Sox won last night and again this afternoon. I'll take that.
The Red Sox activated Story from the DL and sent Durran down to Worcester to work on his swing. They want him to stop trying to hit home runs and start trying to get on base. He has tremendous speed and if he hits singles, he'll turn them into doubles by stealing second.
As for the Red Sox as a team, I'm not sure they stand any chance at all of getting into the playoffs but it's nice to see them try.
Right now I'm watching a rerun of a 2008 Red Sox / Yankees game.
Spoiler: I looked it up. The Red Sox beat the Yankees 11-3.
While I watch that, you can do these:
- Key phrase in this story: "...she allegedly covered the sales floor of a local cannabis dispensary in condiments."
- When I read this story, all I coud think of was Arlo Guthrie's line from Alice's Restaurant, "Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American Blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the Judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us."
- The Todger Girls and The Willy-Wearing Group would be a fantastic name for a 1960's dance troupe and backup band for Lawrence Welk.
- More proof that some people have way too much free time.
- Apparently Clark the Eagle flies commercial.
- I'm thinking she should go buy some lottery tickets.
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