If it isn't one thing,it's another

摘要

Over the past year,plenty of local businesses have folded;there simply isn't the customer traffic to keep the doors open any more due to lockdowns and general economic malaise.While our overall revenue has dropped,as you would expect with a lot less work coming in,the silver lining is that I finally have some free time to get onto those little jobs that I'd been putting off.Those of you who live the rock and roll life of a serviceman know that sometimes things don't go according to plan.An anticipated five-minute job can easily turn into a two-day mission in the flash of a shorted battery connector or a clumsily-placed screwdriver.That sort of thing doesn't happen to me,of course! But I do hear rumours that it happens to other,less-careful people.The first small job created itself when I went to use my soldering station,and the pencil was still cold 10 minutes after I switched it on.The as-ulte among you will know soldering irons are meant to be hot,so the fact that I could hold on to the wrong end of it without being burnt told me that something was up!