Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
17 Dec 2020 1 minute read 5 comments uthus2000
If your house was built between 1965 and 1972, you may have a disaster waiting to occur. While utility companies run aluminum wire overhead and underground in many places, aluminum is not a good choice for lighting or other branch circuits. Uti...
17 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I work for the railroad. I'm one of the most popular people there. I'm an engineer - but not just any old kind of engineer. My specialty is reverse engineering. You know that guy that backs the train up across busy intersections? Yep. That's me! I lo...
13 Dec 2020 3 minute read 6 comments uthus2000
Sometimes, well, quite often, when reading or listening to scripture, things jump out at me. This is what I heard last night and reread today: Lord , do not let evil people have their way. Do not let their evil schemes succeed, or they will become p...
13 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I know that most people aren't wild about fruitcake cookies, but my mother used to make them around Christmas every year. These were fresh homemade cookies! Not just home baked like some people do with the tubes of premade Pillsbury dough (though t...
11 Dec 2020 1 minute read 6 comments uthus2000
I've been an electrician in the St Louis area for a few years now and have never had difficulty getting parts that I needed until recently. The company that I work for does quite a bit of business with Home Depot as well as a couple of smaller,...
10 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I went to a customer's house yesterday. Apparently they had lost power to their detached garage. After checking the panel and making sure there was power leaving the house, I tried to open the conduit body to check for power. You've seen conduit bod...
30 Nov 2020 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
So I decided that I've been spending way too much time on my phone. Yesterday I got a 1 year subscription to Fender Guitar's website to help motivate me to learn to play. I started pretty much from the beginning and was rehashing some things I alread...
29 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
As I sat in the cafe sipping coffee, I noticed a guy over in the corner with a finger jammed into his ear up to about the second knuckle. It looked like he was mining for ear wax. The nugget he pulled out could have been described as glorious if...
27 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
16 Rejoice evermore.17 Pray without ceasing.18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesusconcerning you.1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Gammy and I spent yesterday with our younger daughter's family as it was Gammy's birthda...
22 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul.Proverbs 22:24-25 NLT We all know at least one - a man, a woman, a boy, a girl, a teen - who is prone to volatility, a p...
