Lights Out

[terrycloth]

It turns out there wasn't a power outage. There was a bad lightbulb, that tripped a breaker, and when I was checking the breakers in the morning to make sure it was a really a power outage, I didn't realize that a *tripped* breaker is only slightly off from an *on* breaker -- I was expecting it to look like an *off* breaker.

Anyway, once I realized the breaker was tripped, it was only a matter of eliminating every other possibility before finally checking the damn lightbulb. I didn't know lightbulbs could short out -- shouldn't the filament burn out like a fuse or something?

I'm also really glad I have breakers and not fuses.