Wired Grrl
Just to keep busy, I've been overhauling our main bathroom in a minor inexpensive fashion. The rewiring of the GFI plug went OK, with Bob's support, as did the demolition of the wooden valance covering a really antique fluorescent fixture (just me and my girlie hammer -- such fun to break things).
I painted, then painted again, deciding that two coats of primer were needed before the exquisite "orange confection" which is really a demure pale peach nicely covered the walls. In a final mad push to get the room back into functional territory, I tackled the installation of a new light fixture this evening, only to find that it worked, but didn't turn off. Well, the instructions said join the white wire to the white and the black to the black, but didn't say squat about the red wire, which, it turns out, actually is the wire from the switch, as in "on" and "off."
I figured it out, after a quick consultation with the net, then verified my rewiring decision with friend Brian. Yay, it works! Still have to tackle painting the cupboard doors and drawers and I have far too much "orange confection" paint left, but I'll soon be ready to move on to the ensuite bathroom. Brian says making a GFI out of nothing is a piece o' cake ...