One of Katherine’s more annoying recent habits is to flip off the light switch in our office. That wouldn’t be so bad, except that the switch is a half-hot that controls some, but not all, of the outlets in the room. My webserver and my own computer are not on it (although the monitor is) but the main email computer and the one Robin uses for her work are on it.
So after about the fifth time Katherine killed power to Robin’s computer this past week I decided to rewire the switch to a flat plate and remove the control over the outlets. This was a pretty trivial change compared to some of the work I’ve done in our basement over the past couple of years, but it was pretty satisfying.
So far Katherine hasn’t made any comments about the lack of the switch — we were out of the house enough yesterday that I’m not sure she noticed. I’ll be interested to see her reaction when she finally figures it out — I hope it won’t be to go over and shut down the computers manually…