How NOT to wire a house.

Dear Cusick Electric:

If you are indeed responsible for the wiring of my current house (since your business card is stuck on the circuit breaker), after finally attempting to make a circuit map of my house last night, I have to ask...

What were you idiots THINKING? Did you have someone lazy/on drugs/incredibly cheap wiring everything??

I mean, it's one thing to have an old house. But if you have 150 amp service to a house and then have about 75% of it connected to only FOUR 15-amp circuits - that is the most idiotic thing ever!

Let me put it this way: the original owner rented out the upstairs. She had window units in the front dining room and the upstairs master bedroom before I moved in.

Want to know what's on ONE 15-amp circuit?

All the receptacles in the entry room (except one)
All the receptacles in the dining room (including the one the A/C is plugged into)
All the receptacles in the sunroom out back (which was in the newer part of the house, so these were ADDED)
All the receptacles in the upstairs master bedroom (including the one the A/C is plugged into)
All the receptacles in the upstairs middle room

Oh, and that one receptacle in the entry room? It's apparently got its own 15-amp circuit all to itself! Two other random receptacles appear to be the same way! They had all this space and all this amperage to work with, and most of my house runs on these four 15-amp circuits! The one I mentioned above services a third of the house!

Well, this makes it clear: the house MUST be rewired before I take on a tenant. Period.

So if Cusick Electric is responsible for this idiocy - I'm NOT going with them. I'd be angrier, but I feel a bit validated now that I know it hasn't been just my inability to deal with an older house. The wiring makes no sense, period.

(I am tempted to call them just to ask what kind of drugs they were on, but I'll be good.)

G2005 Con Report, part 2

Good Lord. I meant to be able to post this part on August 11th. Even with getting sidetracked by the pool party and Otakon, I had no idea it'd take this long. I'm almost afraid to see how long Saturday's going to get since this is just Friday's part of the con report - but I couldn't skim over the quotes!

Friday, July 29
( Pre-con running around )

( I did go to some actual panels, too. )

( Opening Ceremonies: 'These are the people with nothing better to do.' )

( Blue Mug-A-Guest, which gets its own cut because of its nature )

Geez. Think this was bad? I haven't even gotten to Saturday. :)