midnyte

If I never post again, it is because I electrocuted myself



I have decided I don't like having extension cords running across my yard to my pond and decided it was time to properly run some real wires out there and a nice outdoor outlet box to plug the lights and pump into.

So far I have conduit halfway mounted along the side of the house and a few outlets installed. It was cold and rainy today and I am in a worse than usual mood, probably a lack of caffeine combined with cold and the godawful trip to Home Depot. Anyone who has read my journal for any amount of time knows how much I loathe the place, but Lowe's is a LOT farther, and people in Arizona forget how to drive when it rains. I Hate Home Depot because when I go during the week, I get hit on by customers and employees. I dress like a homeless person, $3 Walgreen's "Irregular" sweatpants, and whatever rags I have in my "stuff for working on the car drawer" which usually consists of various free T shirts I get with stupid company logos and always in a size large or XL, my nasty ratty sneakers and no socks with my hair greasy and yuck and tied up in a very careless manner and no make up and I still get hit on. It gets on my nerves because I go through the self check out, because I really am very much ok with being left alone, and then some employee will decide I need help out to my car with my ONE FUCKING BAG. Then he will hit on me and hang out and try and have personal conversations with me, and I am just not in the mood, usually I would like to get in get out and get back to my project before the day ends. And of course, I can't be there buying concrete, which really isn't difficult, I can totally pick it out myself, without having 50 people try to help me, and again then try and have a conversation with me over in building materials, and ask me out for dinner even after I let them know I am with someone. If I go on the weekend with my guy, who does an excellent job of keeping the "extra help" away, I get no help what so ever and have a gazillion fuckers to deal with and have to wait 45 min in paint if I need anything from that department since it all needs to be mixed or unlocked from the stupid cages. So yeah, that is just too annoying.

As it is, electricity is not my strong suit. As a matter of fact, it confounds and scares me a little, but I want my wiring to my pond to not be ghetto and right now I just pruned my grapes and roses back so I can actually get to the part of the house I need to mount the conduit to and I can get to the box on the wall without getting a rose bush in my ass.

I drew up a diagram of what I needed and what I plan to do, ran it by someone who is much more electriclly inclined than I am for advice and guidance and made a list, but I had an issue with the price of the L brackets. A straight coupler is 5 for $2.90 practically the same thing with a bend in it is $4.89 for 1 WHY? I needed 8 of them and was offended by the price difference. It just doesn't even seem right. I just wanted to ask where a pipe bender was or if there was a less expensive option for the L's. The 3/4" L's also were less expensive. It just didn't make sense to me. For the difference in price between the 1/2" L and anything else I would think the thing would vibrate or go down on me or something. I just wanted to ask a simple question and I got no help, or kind of rude shitty help. It was older guy who was at least not hitting on me, but he was not taking my complaint about the price seriously and acted like I was shitty for asking why it was $4.30 more expensive for the bent thing than for the straight one when aside from the bend it was essentially the same product. If he had said "I don't know" or "let me make sure that is not a box price" or something would have been cool, but he gave me a sarcastic shitty "deal with it" answer and walked away. After 2 hours at the stupid Home Depot, I finally gathered everything I needed and found a marked down box of the right gauge of wiring. It said "opened" as the reason for the mark down, but was taped up by Home Depot. When I got home what was supposed to be 25 feet of wire ended up being 5 feet of wire all covered in dried blood. I bought a roll of 100 feet of wire as well, so I got done what I could, but need to go back tomorrow and get my $10 back for the bloody wire and then get a real 25 feet of wire to finish up. Hopefully then it will be time to connect everything to the house current. So, if I never write again, you know what happened to me

I think I have it all right though, and it looks very nice so far and not ghetto like the extension cords. I also planted flowers, a new pepper tree and a few shrubs around. Keeping busy as usual.