I am such a klutz.

Bruce (Pistol) and I were working the scene where Pistol apprehends a nameless French soldier (IV.iv) during the battle of Agincourt and after the English siege of Harfleur. We're playing it as Don Knotts and Don Knottier. We back into one another, each drop our swords, and hit the deck. I'm sort of rolling into this fetal ball on the floor, which is asphalt tile over concrete.

Except this time I rolled up and bounced my head lightly on the tile.

General banter while I'm shaking the cobwebs out, making sure that everything is still attached, "are you okay?", that sort of thing. And then Bruce said, "Well, of course, because we're in Hardfloor."

I tell you, if the accidents in rehearsal don't cripple you, the bad puns just might.

posted: 11:00:32 PM  

I woke up way too early this morning and didn't go back to sleep. I came downstairs to make coffee at 6:30 and I checked the electronic thermostat.

Blank display. No time, no temperature. More to the point, the heat pump wasn't running, even though I had heard it in the middle of the night. I pushed, clicked, and slid just about every control on the panel. No response. Is it possible for a thermostat to crash? Or worse: had something fused in the heat pump (which I had just installed last summer)? Or was the equipment just taking a clandestine siesta? ("David's asleep, he won't notice I'm not running.")

Downstairs to the circuit breaker box. Nothing unusual there; the heat pump's breaker had not tripped. I figured I had nothing to lose, that I could use the breaker as an ONOFF switch and try to reboot whatever had fallen over. I switched off the breaker, waited about 10 seconds, and flipped it back.

Happy ending! After about 10 more seconds, the heat pump rumbled to life, and the thermostat's display came back.

I wonder what had happened?

posted: 3:01:52 PM