The Resident Mr. Fix-Its

I somehow managed to blow up the wiring in our kitchen with our vacuum cleaner. I also was not able to switch the circuit breaker back to on, which concerned the engineers of the house. Of course, they like nothing more than trouble shooting a problem, so they spent last evening hanging out with this:

Kirk especially loves playing with the multimeter. Sometimes he'll go around and test things with it for fun.

Look at those big smiles! I bet they wish something would break every day, just so they could fix it!

I don't remember what ended up being wrong, but they were able to fix it. It took several hours and a trip to Lowes, but we have power in the kitchen again.

Kirk's next project is to replace the plug on my vacuum. The dramatic explosion (there was a loud pop AND smoke! ) melted something in the plug. He does not think that there will be any problem with the vacuum. I'm kind of hoping that there will be, so I can get a Dyson.