I Have Had an Electrical Mishap

Surely anyone who knows me isn't surprised by this. I don't seem to have much luck with electricity, or electrical appliances. *frown*

My other roommate Alison had to go back to Canada for a few days to sort out her visa. We figured that while she was there, she could get us a wireless router since they are so expensive here. She came back yesterday, and we were anxious to set it up.

I have been crowned the Techo Wizard of the house thanks to all my residual knowledge of computers that I gleened from dating the computer teacher for two years (thanks George!). So 0f course I was the one voted to set about getting this router thing going.

I checked the voltage thing on the plug for the router (120 volts and 60 hertz) and for some reason figured that it would be fine to plug in. I got a plug adaptor and hooked everything up.

Of course (and I do know this), the voltage is too strong here and after a few moments, the plug adaptor sparked, there was a popping noise, and all the lights went out. Figures. I had the thing out of the box for not even 5 minutes...*shakes head*

Hopefully the actual router is fine and we can just buy a new plug for it. I am thinking it will be since it didn't smell like burning plastic, only the plug did.