That’s just my lovely GF watching me sleep ❤️
(she doesn’t like her dreams)
Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn’t.
After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.
Plumbing is the worst. Just kill me now
The other night I heard a weird explosion sound and eventually classified it into the firework category and moved on. It was a meteor. Always investigate the weird sound at 5am, who needs sleep?
The year is 199X…
Damn, one of your neighbors might have found baby Superman instead of you.
A son? In this economy?
10x worse with cats. What the fuck have you gotten into…
I sometimes wonder if attributing every weird noise to the cat is dangerous. I’ll hear something and think “ah, it’s just the cat” and go back to sleep without checking.
The worst is when you think “ah, it’s just the cat”, but then you see them sleeping nearby. So now I have to assume it’s just a little ghost cat, so I can go right back to sleep
Is that not one of the reasons to have a cat?
Easily one of the top 5 reasons, right up there with killing spiders
I swear random shit crackles and pops in the middle of the night
Thermal expansion.
Is that like domain expansion? /s
Lol. My home (not even a house, but a flat) is WWII era lol. It has rudimentary electrical installation. Like, it fullfills all requirements…if we back the clock by around 30-40 years. Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason. And I have old communist newspapers as “insulation” in the floor xD
Anyway, what I wanted to say…if you live in similiar conditions, everything that your mind connects to possible shortcircuit somehow manages to reboot you from sleep to full awareness within nanoseconds. xD
It sounds like you’d have to wind it back more, 30 years only puts us in the 90s and the stuff you’re talking about sounds like even the 80s would have at a minimum raised eyebrows by the inspectors
No, clearly 30 years ago is the 60’s. I’m not old.
I would accept early 70s but otherwise it’s nonsense
I’m getting Eastern Bloc vibes
Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason.
My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.
We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later… We ended up redoing the whole system.
I’m a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.
Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes
God, there really is something there with that “problem!” signal that our brains can give off before any conscious dots have been connected. And this is for abstract shit that you’d figure our monkey brains wouldn’t give a damn about.
But… might be a predator?
Alexa has a wake word. We have wake noises
I’d be more concerned about the mysterious light in my face.
