but the good news is i got a 4" lockwrench which will play a key role in my toolset right beside the magnetic wand thingie from the car parts store.

i always get confused with a watch and a warning. seems to me you'd have a WATCH if you were going to WATCH something, such as a witch on a bicycle, go blowing past. you would have a warning if you were just like, hey - yellow light - warning. but it's the opposite - a watch is a warning and a warning is a watch. for the reason of this confusion, i am likely to experience a storm in a negative way.

so.

tonight we purchased a weather radio and a new light fixture for the bathroom.

the light fixture has less to do with storm safety and more to do with the other fixture's having been wacked out. it didn't provide enough light. it was hot hot halogen. dim and hot. poor combination. so we got a new one and we spent like an hour trying to get it installed because firstly we are like the most inept do-it-yourselfers ever and because secondly these do-it-yourself light fixtures are wacked out. this new one? it's got this method of attaching the globes to the base with these weird metal washer thingies and the base is porcelain and so it sounds okay in theory but the metal's all out of calibration and the porcelain's sort of rough. i mean, whatever, allright?! why not keep it simple for the simpletons who are clearly going to be purchasing this stuff?! bah!

we spent so much time installing the light fixture that we didn't even get to set up the weather radio because it was like 22:00 already and we hadn't even watched the oscars yet. but the light fixture is going to have to come down and go back in the box and go back to the store because it's impossible to maintain. a normal person cannot get a normal hand into the abnormally narrow space of the fixture, so you could never get the things down to clean them.

and if there's anything i am mad about, i am mad about cleaning.