Yesterday, after winnowing through the National Electrical
Code while teaching an exam preparation course for some journeymen about to
take the master electrician’s test, I came home and melted into my sofa.
This teaching stuff is hard work.
As my teaching buddy, Steve, always
expounds: “Electricity is hard!”
For some strange reason, I am one of
those fraction-of-a-percenters who really enjoys the Code. To me, the provisions written within the Code
range on a scale that starts at confounding but ends at Shakespearean. Between the ends of this spectrum, I truly enjoy
the knitting of shalls and shall nots, the formalized structure. I even
enjoy the run-on sentences dragging ahead like heavy freight trains. And, in the end, I enjoy toying with my own
plain English conversions for better understanding.
Crazy, thick, and perplexing as the
Code can be, I think we really need it in place. I can express why we need it in photograph
after photograph. Today, for example, I
am posting a couple photographs I captured in Vietnam in 2009.
-- Mitchell
Hegman
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