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Summer technicality

June 26th, 2026 at 05:51 pm

Right now, I'm trying to solve a technical problem.  Every time I turn my room fan off and on, my internet momentarily goes out.  Yes, you read that right.  Please feel free to read that again if you wish, I can wait.

I feel like the Christmas light guy in the parody, 12 Pains of Christmas.  "One light goes out, they all go out!"  Haha, what a funny song.  Anyway, it's starting to kind of drive me batty, and it's making me painfully aware of just how often I turn my fan off and on throughout the day.  This issue has gotten so bad that I am finding myself just leaving the fan on through the day and night, and sometimes even falling asleep without realizing that the fan was still on the whole time.

I did a quick survey of my room's power draw, and it's very well below the wattage limit.  In fact, my killowatt barely registers above 200 watts on average, unless I turn on my PC, but even then, it's not even close to half the limit, nor does turning my PC off and on cause any issues.

Perhaps the issue is with the fan itself?  OMG, as I was blogging this and testing everything along the way, I finally figured out what the problem was!  It wasn't the fan, but the extension cord that I plugged it in, that was apparently the issue?  Why is that, I have no idea.  I'm just glad that the mystery is finally solved, and jinkies, it was Mr. extension cord all along?!

Edit: Well poop.  I just turned on the fan and the outage happened again.  Looks like the mystery continues, gang.  

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