life on the wand

Thursday night I grabbed a drink out of the fridge in the garage before going to bed. The refrigerator was cold; the light inside came on when I opened the door. Friday morning I went to the fridge for another bottle of water. Hmm, no light. Bulb must have burned out. No, wait a minute, the wine cooler and freezer are both off, too. Okay, no power. But the garage lights are on! Huh, must be the circuit breaker. Was the breaker tripped? Hard to tell. Just turn it off and back on and see if anything is working. Nope. Oh, this circuit has a GFCI receptacle on it. Yep, sure enough, GFCI is tripped. Whoa, it won't reset. Well, I'm going to be late to work if I don't just rig something up. So, extension cord, plug everything in; Yay! It's all working!

So, today I pulled the receptacle to see if the GFCI had somehow failed.



Wow! Glad the house didn't catch on fire. Best I can tell the screw that holds the wire in was loose. At least, it is loose now. I hope that is all that was wrong.
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