{"id":20522,"date":"2025-05-12T20:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20522"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:49:38","slug":"daily_3723_-_why_is_this_scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/05\/12\/daily_3723_-_why_is_this_scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3723 – why is this scary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The lamp stopped working. Blinked off and on once, and then went permanently off. I swapped lightbulbs, extension cords, and wall outlet, so I guess the lamp itself is the problem.<\/p>\n

I’m unused to investigating and fixing mechanical and electrical problems. Other traditionally maybe-male tasks like basic carpentry, yard work of all kinds – sure. But for some reason cars, electrical appliances, and just machinery of all kinds feels irrationally scary. I know it’s not going to blow up just because I open it up, and I know I can be careful enough to put it back together the way it was, but still. Somehow I expect to fuck it up before I’ve even started.<\/p>\n

I did disassemble and then reassemble an electrical plug recently, to get the cable through a too-small opening. Nothing exploded. I guess the lamp is another super-small, super-safe project to ease me into this.<\/p>\n

(It turned out to have a little black box inside, labelled “dimmer” on one side and “fuse” on the other. Probably the thing that broke, then. And look – nothing exploded this time, either.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lamp stopped working. Blinked off and on once, and then went permanently off. I swapped lightbulbs, extension cords, and wall outlet, so I guess the lamp itself is the problem. I’m unused to investigating and fixing mechanical and electrical problems. Other traditionally maybe-male tasks like basic carpentry, yard work of all kinds – sure. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20524,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20522\/revisions\/20524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}