"They broke the mold after this guy."
Yeah, but daddy glued the pieces together and there I was in my feckless youth doing pretty much the same things with electricity and chemical rocket propellants. With loud explosions and smoke by day, flashing lights and buzzing arcs by night watching my house was for neighbors more entertaining than television.
"Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even usually surpassing knowledge."
I not having any working knowledge any time is the right time.
"This is a situation that I frequently wake up to in the middle of another adventure."
This is a situation that I frequently wake up to at the conclusion of another misadventure is a way of life, mine.
Oh and BTW that nickname Michigan Madman struck just a LITTLE too close for comfort considering another sort of Motor City Madman...