Pain? Indeed.

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At least I know it is just muscular, at this point.  It feels like a knife was stuck in my chest and is being slowly rotated.  Ah.  But you know it makes me feel, or at least know that, I am alive.  Well, at first, sort of, and once I realized it was just muscular.  I must have picked a 100 pounder up a bit quickly, or let it down too fast, or twisted... just... right... at some point.  *kink*  Youch!  Yum.  Hey, what can I say.  I decided, finally, to take some anacin.  It works well enough without killing it all.

I am beginning to do research regarding installing a subpanel in the garage.  There is some good information, and a lot of fubar dope out there.  Gotta be careful.  Though even the books, such as the NEC, are vague at best.  As for code?  Too many codes on too many things.  My guess is even electricians just do their best and hope the inspector will play along.  Essentially code has just become a way of keeping those who don't pay the state from doing what the state is trying to keep open only to professionals.  It's a money thing.  Safety might be involved, but that is loose.  Very loose.  It is more about education money changing, license fees, taxes, and such.  Safety comes in dead last in all other considerations, from what I can see.  So, for me, I will be looking with more of an eye to safety.  My own, first, then the more general system safety.

The NEC costs about $90, and a second that has a good rep, Ugly's I think, runs another $20.  I think I have a home electrical manual around someh where, those run about $20 as well.  I did a minor check on having it professionally installed, and that... seemed prohibitive.  Now, some large part of the cost is components.  If it's half, what I am looking at, even so, will be $300 to $600.  I won't be doing that this year, depending on some other possible eventualities, but I will be studying, maybe buying the books, perhaps buying some components I am more sure of such as feeder cable and maybe the subbox and "main" breaker connection for it, as well as grounding rods et. al.  A bit here, a bit there, after I have done a bit more study and am sure of my plan.

Urhm, before I get to that plan, however, I have to review the wiring in my home.  I'm... not sure about that.  The main breaker panel IS newer, within specs.  After that, in the walls, in the attics, I don't know.  This might end up being way over my head to even consider, depending on what is found a little deeper in.  Oh, I'm sweating it.  A whole house electrical would be both a nightmare and an expensive one.  Which, in part, is what has kept me away until now.  No book(s), no help, could get me to redoing a whole home's electrical while trying to live here.  Way too much.  Then again...  If conduit is good...  Gah!

I did put the peg board pieces in.  No tools have gone up, save my hammer drill, since it was handy.  I just arranged pieces to see what they looked like, and according to their forms, so when I go to add tools or such, I will be able to grab as needed, experiment, and such.  It is starting to look like a real workshop.  My friend wanted to get rid of his small drill press, so I may get that from him at the first of the month.  The chainsaw is rightly stored on the bottom shelf.  And, before long, I'll get the gas additive for that stored on the upper lip shelf, along with some other supplies along those lines.  I'll slowly begin setting that up.  Slowly, until I heal.  Then slowly just because I am slow!  :p

Hmm... Maybe a run to town for a bite?  Nah, I'll just have a pot pie or two.  It takes an hour and an half, between cooking and cooling enough to eat, but a trip to town would take just about as long, burn gas, and cost money.  Yeah, pot pies.  Later.