Gardening Tedium vs. The Excitement of Electrical Projects

I have a natural proclivity for all things electric.   Somtimes I suspect that my siblings are jealous because they have other interests that rage all the way from gardening (yawn) to gardening.

But give me an electric project and I solve it, usually accompanied by 10 or 12 soldering accidents, a discrete shock 5 or 6 times with 110 volts and discovering, much to my regret, just how much juice a capacitor can store.  Good times, good times.

Why, just yesterday I was troubleshooting an outdoor electrical fixture that was acting up.  One may argue that wearing leather-based sandals on wet ground was a tad ill-conceived, but when I woke up 15 feet away, my only thought was gardening is no where near as fun!