So I’ve had this electrical problem in my house. There’s a switch box by the front door that has 3 switches in it. One controls the light outside the door, one controls the light inside the door, and the third controls an outlet near the door. They used to work fine, but after some time they were intermittent. Eventually they stopped working all together. Around this time, we also had a leak in the roof which caused some water damage above the front door. I thought they may be related. I borrowed a signal tracer (the Fox and the Hound) from a friend and took off the face plate and started tracing all the wires. I was sure I located the problem wire, and I thought I knew where the problem was. Unfortunately it seemed like I was going to have to knock a hole in the wall to fix it, which is not something I wanted to do. Fortunately, I double checked the connection at the last known working outlet in that circuit, and sure enough there was a loose wire. I connected the wire more securely and everything is working now. It only took me about 3 years to figure it out, and I almost got out foxed by the Fox and the Hound…

Other then that, I’ve been working with Ron on our new site. We’ve made a lot of progress in a very short time. I’m optimistic that we can launch the site in the next week or two. From there’ it will take a lot of user contributions to really make it fly…

Still no basketball today. I have an appointment with the doctor on Wednesday to find out what’s wrong with my knee. In the mean time I’m still going to the gym 3 times a week, but I’m only doing upper body weights.