December 13, 2007
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1 So...Ike Turner walks into a bar...
2 Second Ike in fifty years.
3 So it goes, so it goes...
4 Moving on: Green guitar. Seasonal. WHICH makes me think: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
5 I know because on Sunday I went out around sunset and started hanging the Christmas lights.
6 The deal about Christmas lights is that I always clean the rain gutters at the same time.
7 And every year I get lazy and grab my leaf blower so I can really get those leaves all over the neighborhood.
8 Thing is, I always get WAY deep into it and wind up mud blowing as well.
9 I looked like I had pulled a mudpie out of the ground and it popped up into my face like a wet dirt clod.
10 I had dirt and mud and leaves all over my face, glasses, ears, and nose.
11 Fortunately I organized my lights AFTER Christmas last year.
12 I separated my lights, put all new bulbs in, and put my good lights into a milk crate, and labeled it "First String: All are calm; all are bright!"
13 Naturally I forgot that I did something THAT organized and just grabbed the milk crate.
14 For the first time in my life, Murphy's Law wasn't at work. There were the lights, and there was the sign inside.
15 Made me smile.
16 Then I thought, "That's SO anal for me." That occurred to me after I had mud blown the gutters right back into my own face.
17 Blowback. Dirt clods. Bright Christmas lights. All working.
18 It got dark, but I really wanted all of it to work. Half the gutter clips faced the wrong way, but other than that, it all worked, pretty swiftly too.
19 You can't help feeling a little like Chevy Chase when you're hanging lights though, because they're designed to tangle, fall, break, and get caught on any hose.
20 I wondered how there aren't a million accidents, shorts, electrocutions, and all the rest that a guy my age would worry about.
21 Then I thought, "Ah, just be careful, old man."
22 And then I thought, "Yeah."
23 And THEN the ladder decided to widen its stance about twelve feet.
24 I grabbed it and did a ladder jump, and in no time it was back to the only lighting design I do nowadays.
25 And I'm loving it.
26 Getting older and smiling isn't really so bad.
27 Enjoy this stuff while you can.
28 'Tis the season.
29 Baby it's cold outside.
30 I'm going in now.
31 Peace.
~H~
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