8/18/2005 - The wet light fixture...

Well this weekend we went to the new ikea that opened up near us, it was a zoo.  The first lady into the place had been camped out there for 3 or 4 weeks... ikea gave a gift card 3000 dollars i think; and the next 100 people got a free chair.

   Any way it was way to crazy to believe.  I mean when I lived near Toronto, we went to that one a couple times, hell I love browsing through there.  Where did all these wacko's come from? The closest other ikea is in Houston, like 4 hours drive away!  I can't believe all those people had lived in Houston before moving to Dallas and went wacko when the new store to opened.  Then again, I was pretty excited about it opening....

On to what we or I did.  My wife wanted a new lamp for our hallway so we picked this one  

Its kinda of cool and the light is good.  Any way, there's no fixture in the ceiling the hall light is mounted on the wall.  So I remove the old light, figure out where the wire go (up to the attic luckly) and I locate where to put the new light.  Excellent, everything is coming together flaulessly!  Then I call for help to check that I've traced the right wire up to the attic.

   "Yes, the wire is moving." My wife calls up as I pull on the wire from the attic.

   "All right!" I say.

   "Get down here there's water shooting out of the water heater!"

   "sh*t," I say "Hold on! I'm coming down!"

So it was that I fought the hot water squirting monster, socking 12 towels and myself in the process.  2 hours, 2 trips to wal-mart (this was between10:00-11:00 on a sunday night) and a whole lot of stress later.  The water heater closet and all the connections where bone dry and the shower I needed, badly.  What a long night that was.  On the bright side, the new light looks great and really brightens up the hallway and when I open the door the water closet too.