Man I must have it lucky. My power didn’t even so much as flicker throughout the entire storm. I’m relatively far south of the city proper though.

“Whaaaaaattttssss happpening…. Hey just a heads up, I noticed you didn’t put the new cover sheet on the your TPS reports… you did get the memo, right? I’ll get you a copy of that memo..”

I have mine hooked up to a modern IP phone switch via an analog station card installed in the switch. It actually natively supports converting the pulse dial signal into a modern SIP trunk (VoIP service) which means I can have the best of both worlds, no expensive monthly landline fees and can still use my nice old phone. It’s great.

That’s awesome haha. I have an early 1950s rotary phone (WE 5302) in my house and anyone younger than about 20 has serious trouble figuring out how to dial it haha. Guess none of them had one of these as a kid

Are they touch tone nowadays? Or still rotary??

Tunnel monster.

Had an electrician buddy of mine come over to take a look at a couple weird electrical things in my house.

Queue him trying to flip a 240V oven outlet right side up as the previous electrician put it in upside down (which was why my oven wouldn’t go back against the wall). I ask him if he wants me to turn off the oven breaker. He goes “nah, I’ll be alright” and I shit you not, 5 seconds later there’s a massive bang and his hands are covered in black soot and the wall has the same all over it.

He just goes “Well, it’s off now!!”

Good tow companies are so hard to find but when you do find one they are lifesavers.

There’s a tow company in the area a little bit away from me but I will call them every single time because they will always be fair and willing to help out versus most tow companies who will give the run around and nothing else.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it frustrating. It’s a constitutional right to face your accuser in a court of law. If a computer installed on the side of the road is your accuser then there is not a way to face them in court. You also have the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If you state you weren’t driving at the time, and there isn’t a human who can verify beyond a reasonable doubt that he processed your license and got your signature on the ticket, you have to be presumed innocent. Both of these reasons is how and why the work zone enforcement can’t issue anything legally binding. PennDOT can codify into their rules that the owner is responsible for their vehicle then issue “violations” against your vehicle registration. An actual legally binding citation is issued to the person, who is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

As much as I wish we had better traffic enforcement, especially on highways around here, undermining constitutional rights is not a great way to do it. These are all the reasons other states have taken away most of their red light cameras and speed cameras that issue actual tickets. Most issue tickets against a vehicle and do the same thing our work zone enforcement does.

Yep - the “real fines” are still not actually a ticket though. It’s a “violation notice” and does not affect your driving record, insurance, or anything else. It’s purely monetary. Most people don’t know that though.

Automated enforcement which issues actual tickets is not legal in PA as well as most other states in the US.

The work zone speeding enforcement that started in 2020 issues “violations” which cannot affect a driver’s record and there is no real way to collect the revenue from the driver other than just to send them to a collections agency. You can’t renew your registration with an outstanding , but that’s about the only penalty.