Larry Jaques wrote:

I most certainly did NOT, Bill. I told you to mount the lights in that
orientation and asked WTF? when you started on about furring strips,
which are unnecessary, unless you have some nastyass warts on your
shiny new fixtures. Most are built to mount flat against the wall or
ceiling.

Yes, you and others got me to rotate my lights by 90 degrees.

Furring strips may be unnecessary, but I think they may add something
extra, beside making it easy to nail up my clamp and boxes. There is
something that makes me uneasy about running EMT across the stippled
ceiling. It could end up looking too much like somebody's basement. A
beveled furring strip says, to me, that somebody cared. I'm about the
only one that's going to be in there, and I'll appreciate the
difference. The added inconvenience is pretty minimal since I'm doing
the work myself. Besides that, if I didn't put up the furring strips, I
wouldn't have as good of an excuse to repaint the ceiling! : )

Bill