Interesting day here in the badger state. Severe weather alert all day today and tonight for freezing rain and sleet. I can't see out the window of my office because it is encased in ice. Power reportedly out sporadically throughout the city. Coalition forces have reportedly taken the airpo... oops, wrong city! ;o) We had a power surge about an hour ago that knocked out about 20% of our circuits, although fortunately it doesn't appear that we had any equipment damage. For some reason, the #!$#!@ circuit breakers didn't flip, so I'm assuming they're fried. Electrician on the way. Not being an electrical engineer, you may not be aware of the principle that the $2000 widget will sacrifice itself to save the 20 cent fuse.
This goes along with the value of whatever you drop being directly proportional to how far under the bench it rolls.
You can keep your weather. Last sunday and monday's snow was a nice capper for the season. Today it's in the high 60s or low 70s. Perfect day for a ball game.
SD
Not being an electrical engineer, you may not be aware of the principle that the $2000 widget will sacrifice itself to save the 20 cent fuse. Electrician dude checked it out, and said that it isn't anything in our building. We called the power company and they said they've been having problems in our area with low voltage -- not enough electrons in the pipe, I guess. Hopefully we'll be back 100% tomorrow!