Well, the electrician came.

[conuly]

Many cries of "I don't believe this!" and "Who ever thought THIS was a good idea?" later we've determined... that they can't just fix it easily and we'll need to have somebody else out for a new estimate.

Sigh.

But at least they didn't just try to kludge something up.

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Comments

[greghousesgf]

I remember reading a really weird poem called "Batman My Father" about a guy who loved the 60's Batman show when he was a little kid and not realizing it was a parody until he grew up.