OK. So I finished "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". I am now starting on "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling. This is also a reread for me. My question from the end of HP 1: When does James Potter save the life of Severus Snape? I just can't remember, but Dumbledore tells Harry that it happened so it must be true. I just can't remember when we are told about it.


I took some funny pictures of Adeline today. We just upgraded her to a more user friendly model, as you can see below.

We also moved the treadmill from the upstairs bedroom over the garage where I originally assembled it all the way down to the basement. Believe me, it was no simple feet. We have a little touch up painting to do now. But, after all the blood and sweat it is finally in place. Hopefully for a very long time. The second ordeal after getting it into the basement was to power it. Our home was built with only one power outlet in the basement into which we have plugged the chest freezer and the cable modem and network router. It was also clear that the same circuit is used for all the lighting in the basement and stairwell. So I check the breaker box (for some reason located on the outside of the house and it just happens to be pouring rain at that moment) and find the breaker for the basement light circuit which does indeed control that outlet as well. However, I also find a mysterious breaker labelled "basement plugs" which doesn't seem to turn off anything (hardly surprizing since there are no basement plugs). So, I take the front off the breaker panel and discover the secret method that was employed (and not explained to the insignificant homeowners. I still think that builders should be required to provide all home buyers with a complete set of blueprints so they know what the house looks like without having to tear it apart). There is a single cable going to the basement, but it is a 4 wire rather than a 3 wire cable. The black and white wires are used to power the "basement light" circuit and of course there is the bare copper ground, but there is also a red wire powered by the breaker labelled "basement plugs" and dead ending in the basement light switch box. Once that was discovered it was simple enough to extend this new circuit out to a power outlet for the treadmill in a convenient location (I actually had wiring, junction boxes and a spare outlet among the random junk I moved with). Well, now we are all set up except for the TV Micaela wants to somehow mount down there in front of the treadmill (if you're running in a basement you may as well watch your favorite movies).