Dogmush wins the best suggestion award:
Do you have a handy kind of friend that needs beer?
Now THAT is my idea of easy! Besides, I haven't played the girl card in a while. Well, except for the cable guy that was here the other day. I had him move a tv from one room to another and kill a spider, but that's what he gets for flirting with me when I'm old enough to be his mother. (When did they start letting ten y.o. boys make repair calls?) I'd rather play the girl card than risk having to report back to you guys that I burned down the house or electrocuted myself. Though I haven't yet had the opportunity to blame Fistful for anything and after that remark he made I find myself eager to, so it might be worth trying it myself just for that reason. Then again, I'm sure other opportunities will arise that don't require such effort on my part.
I'm sure I can round up a handy friend and I'll watch everything he does so I'll learn. And I'll pick up the tools you mentioned Dogmush. I used to have a fairly good collection of tools before I got married, but they somehow disappeared in the divorce. All he left me with was a rusty hammer, a rusty multi-bit screwdriver, and the body of my cordless drill (case, bits and battery missing). What kind of man takes a woman's tools and leaves her rusted junk?
Scout - I DO know how to program my appliances! I'm female, I can read directions.
Avenger - lives wires are fairly safe? Uh huh.
To answer Avenger and Monkeyleg, the house was built in the 70s. Have no idea what the wire insulation looks like.