We got a new hair dryer this week. It's long overdue; the old one hasn't been very strong for a long while and you can see electricity crackling inside the barrel. This is the kind of comfort splurge purchase we're making now that I have an income again. But wait, this gets even more exciting.
This morning it was cold. Not as cold as it should be for February, but colder than it's been. So I turned the bathroom heat fan on when I got out of the shower. And then started drying my hair. And then the power went out. I initially thought I'd tripped the GFCI and tried to press the rest, and then registered that the heating fan was off. So was the hall light. And then ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger asked if the power was out. She got up immediately when the power went out, because the white noise machine she sleeps with stopped. And I had to admit no, I just did a dumb thing. In my defense, this never happened with the old hair dryer, which may not have worked very well but never tripped any circuit anywhere, despite its sparking.
Also, our house has a single circuit breaker switch for the bathroom, both bedrooms, and half of the basement. Why this eccentric choice of rooms on the switch? We don't know. Our house shows many signs of having been worked on by people more optimistic than experienced and I would absolutely believe it if their thinking was 'this circuit is the left side of the house and that circuit is the right' and then some other things got split off over time. BUt it mostly doesn't fail, so, we'll let it be. Except it would have been nice had I not woken bunnyhugger a half-hour before she needed to wake.
So we're up to the day of the State Women's Pinball Championship. We'll lead with some pictures of the place we stayed, though, since I finally got around to a few snaps of that.
When they said the AirBnB we all shared was on the lake we didn't realize how literally they meant it! We had missed the chance to get out to it but the place must be something else in summer.
Even by winter the view is great. The ice is too thin to go safely out on, something that the guy at the supermarket discussed with bunnyhugger when she went in to get a local newspaper.
THe living room/common area for the AirBnB. It's plenty of space to hang out even with a group as big as ours was. If you look close you can see where MWS slept on the couch (as he volunteered to do).
bunnyhugger hauling some luggage out to the car, in the light snowy fog that made us worry about driving conditions. (They were fine.) I'd already taken a lot out so please don't think I was making her haul everything everywhere.
Quick snap of our bedroom, with a bed too small for the two of us and too soft for bunnyhugger's tastes.
The steps leading up to the entrance. This is probably more pleasant in the summer; when we got there the steps were snowy and icy. The next day someone found the bucket of rock salt (it was on top of the porch the whole time) and things got generally much better.
Trivia: By 1927 there were 153 junior colleges in 31 of the United States. Source: 1927: High Tide of the 1920s, Gerald Leinwand.
Currently Reading: Suddenly, Tomorrow Came: A History of the Johnson Space Center, Henry C Dethloff. NASA SP-4307.
