What We're Seeing at the Junkplex

My Salvadorean electricians arrived bright and early today to begin two weeks' work of adding outlets, putting in new fixtures, dimmers, bringing some past work up to code and installing some outdoor lighting as one of the final stages of the condo conversion of the Junkplex. This place is of an old enough vintage that most overhead lights are on top of what once were gas lamps. So that's always an issue.

Bow has been calm but not thrilled to be quartered off with me in the back part of the flat so she doesn't interfere with the workers. She feels this is their loss since she won't be able to share her encyclopedic knowledge of electrical and wiring codes and matrixes.

Top of My List

Okay, I know it's been going through many of my readers' heads. What, oh, what do you give Junk Thief for the holidays this year? I know that finding the right gift for the king of all junk is not an easy task, so I am pleased to give you a tip. This little beauty is just what I want.

It's so state-of-the-art, so sleek, so...20th Century. I called Best Buy, and they seem to have run out of them. However, I suggest stopping by the soon to be defunct CompUSA. This seems just the sort of thing you'd find at that place.