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Not a good day to start the work week.
Dec. 10th, 2007 10:41 pmboston had it's first freezing rainstorm of the season last night. this morning, I step out the door testing my footing for ice, and happily, find none. Okay, great, I sez to myself. Lock the door behind me and head down to the car. take one step down from the front porch and surprise! WHAM! suddenly I find myself laying down flat on my (now extremely painful) ass down at the bottom of the steps.
I take a minute laying there to take stock. Obviously, I just fell down the steps. I don't remember actually falling and landing though. I wiggle my various parts, yup, all present and mobilizing normally. carefully I get up. whups, the path is well covered by a layer of ice with water on top. On all fours I crawl slide myself over to the grass. the thin layer of snow there lets my weight crunch through and have traction. carefully I get up and get out to the car, start it up, and spend a while scraping ice from the windows.
Getting into the car, waiting for the defroster to get warm enough to loosen the ice, I check myself again. Hm, no marks on my hat, no cuts on my head, just a very sore tailbone and sore spots along both my forearms. I guess that piece of karate training from many years ago did stick, I must have actually thrown my arms down to cushion my fall. I'm feeling pretty shaken up, and seriously consider calling in sick, but decide to go.
the drive to work, which normally takes about an hour, takes closer to two. good thing I walked out the front door half an hour early. At work, guess what, the building has lost one of the electrical power phases. So no air compressor, many of the lights are not working, and even worse, the coffeemaker is unpowered. fortunately, my little minifridge next to my workbench still is powered, so the fruit I left there friday is still good.
I have a large pile of socapex multicable, breakout and breakin adapters, and a PAR bar light in my troubleshoot pile. One of the circuits has a problem, but they forgot to label the troublesome one on the teardown, so can I trouble shoot all these cables and breakouts. We need them all for another gig in two days. *ugh* I found the problem, it was, of course, in the second to last item in the pile. Whomever had originally wired up the cable, had an off by one error on two consecutive circuits. So the first circut was getting it's hot on the neutral cable, and the neutral from the second circuit. the second circuit was getting circuit one's nuetral in it's hot conductor, and circuit two's hot on it's nuetral conductor. fortunately these are only used for lights, which don't care so much about which wire is hot and nuetral.
The incorrectly wired pins are, of course, on the inner ring of the connector, so I have to unsolder six correctly wired pins to gain access to the four wrong pins. Carefully writing down the how the thing is wired, I then go unsolder all the wires. clean and prep, and start resoldering. get it all done, and start testing. Whups, I had carefully soldered the thing back up, wrong exactly the same way, according to my notes of the bad wiring. ArrRRGH! desolder, desolder, clean and retrim wires, check the wiring again, to be positive I'm gettign it right this time, I do the work again. way too much work for that one.
The rest of the day was fairly uneventful. home now, checking myself, no signs of a concussion, so I took my ibuprofen, and am now almost ready for sleep. Good night.
I take a minute laying there to take stock. Obviously, I just fell down the steps. I don't remember actually falling and landing though. I wiggle my various parts, yup, all present and mobilizing normally. carefully I get up. whups, the path is well covered by a layer of ice with water on top. On all fours I crawl slide myself over to the grass. the thin layer of snow there lets my weight crunch through and have traction. carefully I get up and get out to the car, start it up, and spend a while scraping ice from the windows.
Getting into the car, waiting for the defroster to get warm enough to loosen the ice, I check myself again. Hm, no marks on my hat, no cuts on my head, just a very sore tailbone and sore spots along both my forearms. I guess that piece of karate training from many years ago did stick, I must have actually thrown my arms down to cushion my fall. I'm feeling pretty shaken up, and seriously consider calling in sick, but decide to go.
the drive to work, which normally takes about an hour, takes closer to two. good thing I walked out the front door half an hour early. At work, guess what, the building has lost one of the electrical power phases. So no air compressor, many of the lights are not working, and even worse, the coffeemaker is unpowered. fortunately, my little minifridge next to my workbench still is powered, so the fruit I left there friday is still good.
I have a large pile of socapex multicable, breakout and breakin adapters, and a PAR bar light in my troubleshoot pile. One of the circuits has a problem, but they forgot to label the troublesome one on the teardown, so can I trouble shoot all these cables and breakouts. We need them all for another gig in two days. *ugh* I found the problem, it was, of course, in the second to last item in the pile. Whomever had originally wired up the cable, had an off by one error on two consecutive circuits. So the first circut was getting it's hot on the neutral cable, and the neutral from the second circuit. the second circuit was getting circuit one's nuetral in it's hot conductor, and circuit two's hot on it's nuetral conductor. fortunately these are only used for lights, which don't care so much about which wire is hot and nuetral.
The incorrectly wired pins are, of course, on the inner ring of the connector, so I have to unsolder six correctly wired pins to gain access to the four wrong pins. Carefully writing down the how the thing is wired, I then go unsolder all the wires. clean and prep, and start resoldering. get it all done, and start testing. Whups, I had carefully soldered the thing back up, wrong exactly the same way, according to my notes of the bad wiring. ArrRRGH! desolder, desolder, clean and retrim wires, check the wiring again, to be positive I'm gettign it right this time, I do the work again. way too much work for that one.
The rest of the day was fairly uneventful. home now, checking myself, no signs of a concussion, so I took my ibuprofen, and am now almost ready for sleep. Good night.
