Vulpine

Last night I woke up to the terrifying sound of one of my plugs arcing. Cue me turning off every wall socket in my room and unplugging everything. (Everything = Snake heat-mats, TV, Computer, Phone charger) Checking to see if I could hear the same thing in any of the other rooms, which I thankfully couldn't.

And then spent the next three hours staying awake to make sure nothing spontaneously combusted despite being unplugged. (I've been having nightmares of my house burning down for as long as I remember, this, doesn't help.)

The next morning, I woke up with half a brain and explained what happened to Mom. And together we tried to figure out which plug was arcing. I thought I found which one it was, when I had a thought and opened the vivarium.

It wasn't the plug that was arcing, it was the Mat itself! Then smoke starting to come from it before we had chance to turn the power off again.

Imagine if I hadn't woken up, something tells me those nightmares a going to get worse after that close call.