I spent the bulk of the day working on a project for our master bathroom. Jeanine has asked me to build a frame to surround the large mirror over our vanity and to replace the existing single-lighting array with a pair of nicer fixtures. Building and painting the frame took less than an hour but the same cannot be said of the lighting project. I needed to replace a single wall box (and patch the resulting opening in the drywall) with two new wall boxes and run the associated wiring. As can generally be expected with any renovation work there are always surprises. In this case the presence of several vent pipes, three shouldered 2x4s (very hard to drill through), and a rat’s nest of wiring in exactly the locations where the new boxes needed to be installed. It will take another day or two to complete the work.

Maya invited several girl friends to spend the night and as I walked into our family room this is the scene I encountered. I am told they were doing “pencils”. I do not know what a pencil is or why teenage girls find this so entertaining. Perhaps it is some form of warm up for the game of Jailbreak which ensued with girls alternatively hiding silently and then flying through the house screaming as only girls of this age can do. Fortunately all the activity seemed to help them all get to sleep at a reasonable hour.