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I<\/span> don’t know if we all<\/span> know the feeling… but some of you surely do.<\/p>\n I’m not talking about the feeling of blowing it<\/span>, flaming out, wigging, flipping your lid,<\/span> or otherwise losing control.<\/p>\n No… I’m talking about that world-weary feeling you get when someone you’ve cared about, agonized over, loved, lamented, and forgiven a thousand times, someone you have <\/span>lost control over in the past, someone who was once<\/span> your everything, pushes too far once too often and you realize that, instead of anger, or sorrow, or rage or pity — you feel nothing<\/span>.<\/p>\n Now, the electrically minded among us (and I know a lot<\/span> of you geeks because I am<\/span> one of you geeks) will be compelled to point out that a better analogy might be an old fashioned fuse since once they blow you have to put in a whole new fuse, whereas, with a circuit breaker, you just flip a switch and you’re ready to go again (but hopefully you’ve unplugged a leggy blonde or two).<\/p>\n But fuses go out with a flash and a loud pop… what I was really after was <\/span>the precise, businesslike click-thunk-thank-ya’-ma’am-I’ll-find-my-own-way out of a circut breaker relay. No muss, no fuss, no blackened fuse box. Just a clean, emotionless shutdown.<\/p>\n\n