Hot water!

I spent the whole day with Devon and the family but Mike was busy working on the house. His dad got the hot water working (although I haven't tried it yet) early in the day. He has to come back to do the earthquake bracing tomorrow.

Mike worked on cleaning up and setting up the media closet. He had to install a four gang box inside the closet by tapping into an outlet on the other side of the wall. There is still some drywall work to be done but it's powered. He also investigated our blinking lights.

Last night (during one of the many times we were up) we noticed the hallway lights flash dimly but constantly. The baby's lamp did too. It turns out that CFL lights require such low voltage and are "instant on" so the small amount of voltage required to keep his lit switches lit is enough to turn the CFLs on. We are working on the problem and hope that we won't have to replace all our new light switches he worked so hard on.

We spent the evening away and the baby was asleep by the time we got home. We decided to finish installing the baby lock on the door out to the laundry room. His dad had figured out how to get the rest of it off (something about using a putty knife as a pry bar). After a fairly long attempt and multiple disassemblies and reassembles we came to the conclusion that the locks do not work on all doors. At least it wasn't expensive.

The next project was to try and watch some TV. After assembling the TV, DVR, various cables, etc we thought we were all set. Except we had no idea where the cable remote was so no DVR for us. It hasn't been hooked up for a month so I don't even remember what was on it. We didn't get the old cable box hooked up though ... Only to see "Searching for your cable service - 0%." After watching it slowly get up to 100% by 5% increments it changed screens to the optimistic "Your cable service has been interrupted and should return shortly." We think it's BS and when we got a different cable set up our old unit wasn't activated.

So no TV, no Internet (this post comes to you from Mike's phone) but we hopefully have hot water. Which is enough to be thankful for.