Ah, another tale from the Well, There's Your Problem files. I know them well.

This place is reasonably well-built, although it has other quirks just owing to its age. For instance, the wiring is a Manifestation of Chaos, simply because the house pre-dates the electrification of the town, and has since been wired in at least four separate stages, each added without decommissioning its predecessor. I do at least have circuit breakers, not fuses, in the basement, but the breakers correspond to objects in the house in ways that I'm sure made sense to someone, at some point. For instance, one of them controls three of the four outlets in the kitchen, an outlet in the living room, and the lights on the front porch.

(Also, some of the exterior walls contain no insulation, simply because it hadn't been invented yet when they were built. This is sort of a problem in, you know... Maine. Although the place doesn't cool off nearly as fast during a wintertime power outage as you would expect knowing that!)

--G.
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