The ramblings of g1powermac » Note To Self

UPS batteries don’t always workâ€¦

g1powermac — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:08:34 +0000

Note to self:Â Don’t assume your uninterruptible power supply (UPS) battery is always uninterruptible.Â I was doing some electrical work around the house and needed to shut off a few circuit breakers to determine the proper circuit.Â I knew I was going to hit the circuit that powered my computer and network equipment, but I figured my high end backup battery would keep it all going for the short few seconds the power was going to be off.Â Well, it didn’t.Â It died probably under the large power load of all my equipment.Â The only good thing to come out of it was it finally gave me the opportunity to switch out routers so I now have my OpenWRT running router with a massive wifi antenna setup as my main router.

Orbital sanders, not so innocentâ€¦

g1powermac — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:03:14 +0000

Note to self: Don’t use a random orbital sander for more than 30 minutes at a time or you really start getting some weird affects.Â When I hit about an hour’s worth of time sanding a chopping block/shelf I’m building, my hands began to tingle.Â After a break, I then went back and sanded for another half hour, and now I’m finding it difficult to type this.

Water, water everywhereâ€¦

g1powermac — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:43:03 +0000

Note to self: make sure the washing machine’s sewer pipe is securely attached to the wall drain or be prepared to clean up a huge mess.Â It’s a good thing that our laundry room is in the basement and that the pipe fell out of the wall drain during the last cycle so the amount of water drained on the floor was minimized.