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I was remembering my first day of Power Lab in college. The professor talked about things like big volts and amps and watts and mhos (or Siemens, if you prefer).

He then told us what we’d be doing at our lab stations. He made mention that none of the lab stations had chairs (you had to stand the whole time). He said it was for a simple reason:

When someone accidentally gets themselves into 480 Volts they’d be thrown backwards and a stool would only serve as a means for them to hit their head. They were better off having a clean open area to fall into, in order to better survive the shock.

Yikes!

Neither of us are big movie watchers. Well, at least, I’m not. And Annie’s not as a result, I suppose.

Occasionally, though, we do rent a movie. And sometimes we’re pleased with our pick.

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Many of you regular readers probably remember from years ago when I wrote lots of dramatic stories surrounding my life and my previous relationships. Here’s a follow-up story you may find slightly interesting.

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At 5:34 yesterday we had a momentary power failure that brought down a large bunch of machines at work. I got called by a guy who was there to come in and try and see what I could do to get things up and running again.

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I’ve always been bad at history. But, I must admit that the name Smoot always makes me laugh.