I've been looking for my wire strippers for days and haven't found them yet, but I did finally find one of my pairs of pliers. So I used the pliers to strip wire, and the first bit went more easily than I expected, so I thought, "Oh, this wire is being very cooperative," ... then I tried to cut it, and discovered that the reason stripping the wire with the pliers was so easy is that the cutting surfaces had gotten so munged that the wire-cutter section of that pair has turned into a wire stripper instead of a cutter. So ... convenient and frustrating at the same time.
I had a lot of that today. Crashing now 'cause I feel like crap and I'm driving to Pennsylvania tomorrow.