Harbor Freight Trip 04 of 2023: A Light

I followed up Thursday's table saw with a shop light on a stick.

OK, so this wasn't a planned purchase. This was the result of the power going off at 10:24 AM with no prospect of it returning as the night approached. I recently threw out a couple of jar candles from Kroger because my system goes whack-a-doodle after inhaling them for a bit...fun stuff like an unnerving, rapid heartbeat with waves of nausea! Oh, but how I do love candles. I wonder if I could make them out of bacon fat?

I haven't owned a flashlight in some time because of that multi-tool phone. But, as my phone dropped to 1% power, that option was out.

However. I knew I had a fully-charged cordless drill, so I figured I'd get a lamp that could use its battery.

20V Cordless 280 Lumen Stick Light - $26.99 with a 15% off coupon

While there, I didn't even plan to get that, I was choosing this $20 model, but audibled for the superior solution.

I got home and lit up the kitchen like a Christmas tree. It worked great for all of 15 minutes that it was needed. The power popped on at 6:09 PM, almost 8 hours after the circuit was broken.

Wire Safe? No is Arc.

And speaking of circuits, I found this elucidating YouTuber, specifically for this video, Electrical Wiring Basics set to 1.25x. He confirmed what I always kinda guessed, but I don't trust my Kinda Guesses. As an 11 or 12-year-old, I took apart a small color TV to see if I could link the speaker to something larger, when I got shocked and turned the thing to a Smurf-o-vision—it became a blue-and-white set. My hand was groovin' on its own for awhile.

And then at Grand Canyon Railway, I was a smart guy for unplugging the UPS unit to upgrade its batteries. I had to switch out some bad batteries in the case. As I was listening to Metallica's 1983 The Four Horseman, a big ol' flash knocked me back and blackened the tip of my thumb. Yes, I was removing a few, dead batteries, but clearly, some were ready for an 80s full of gnarly ROCK SHOW.

(Normally, I'd link to that 2007 story, but like so much, it's just another blog lost to the Net gnomes of the past.)

I also watched BrettleyBuilt's bit on GFCIs, which is something I'll be doing because the new has some ugly outlets in the water-seeping garage. I'm pretty KISS tour schedule included several of those outlets.

I never liked my Kinda Guesses anyway.