It seems this weekend was the weekend of unfinished things.

The first unfinished thing was a showing of Hellboy. Hellboy just came to the dollar theatre. Kirsten and I were in the mood for a movie, and since I hadn't seen it (she saw it with her brother when it first came out), we decided to go.

About an hour in (for those who have seen it, it's when they go back to the subway tunnel), the screen plunged into darkness while the sound kept going. After a minute or so, the audience realized that this wasn't a plot point, and a couple of people went to go get someone to fix the projector.

We were treated to a half hour of the following:

1) Movie slides of 5 year old movies, and "bios" of actors long past their prime.
2) The occassional *ZZZZZZRRRRRRP!* accompanied by a general surge in the theatre's lighting. I imagine that the projection-room floor is littered with the bodies of minimum-wage-paid Cinema City employees.
3) The movie resuming audio-only.
4) Repeat ad infinitum.

Finally, the manager comes in and tells us that the projectioner has died and gives us all rainchecks for the movie. I still don't know how Hellboy ends (aside from a summary given to me by K).

THe second frustrating unfinished thing is courtesy of our favourite crack-fueled home renovators.

We had to run up to Home Depot yesterday to pick up some hickory chips for the BBQ (Kirsten made some BBQ ribs last night, and we needed the chips to smoke 'em). While we were there, we picked up a ceiling fan for the living room that was on sale.

So first, I pulled down the light fixture that was up there... and found an extra set of electrical wire, which had just been taped up (no marrettes, or any other form of safety material was used on the wiring to prevent, say, an electrical fire from starting...). It got worse when I took off the dimmer switch on the wall, and found three sets of wires.

Let's quickly recap here. The light switch has three sets of wires. The actual fixture that the light connects to has two. Notice a problem here?

After hooking the old fixture up, so I could do some testing, I spent about 3 hours doing the following:

1) Run downstairs, turn off the main breaker (since the wiring in the house is such that you can't easily tell which circuit is on which breaker).
2) Run upstairs, try a combination of wiring.
3) Run downstairs, turn breaker on
4) Run upstairs, see if it worked.
5) Repeat.

At one point, we had it on... but it wouldn't turn off. I finally gave up at dinner time, and I'll try it again tonight.