- 3:38 PM, Friday,
December 20th, 2013:
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- Man, neighbor,
brother: I get it. When my kids are old enough to
actually care about this - I'm probably gonna
"Griswold" my house a bit. I won't put TONS of
effort into it (save that for the GolfKon events) but
I've done the icicle light thingees before and I'll do
it again. And I really do get it - you went to
the store, probably excited that they twinkled. And,
oooh! They're LED! This will be awesome. So I
give you, my neighbor's light display:
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- What the serious
fuck is that. It's a goddamned horror movie,
that's what that is. Not sure if it comes across on
the video but it feels like a broken flourescent light
on an abandoned building in person. First, LED lights
just suuuuuuuuuuuck for Christmas lights. There's no
warmth. It legitimately looks like office lighting.
And twinkling is fine, but when it's random?
EVERY STRAND? It's simply frightening. It's like
the opening of a haunted house. In fact, now that
I think of it, I should buy those for Halloween
'cause that would scare the bejeezus out of
kids.
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- So yeah, it's that
time. Of course my neighbors have a lit up Santa and
Snowman in their backyard AFTER I put up a 9 foot
wall so Vienna can't see it. (sigh) Not that it
matters much this year anyway. I want to be really
excited for Christmas this year, but the truth is,
this is an "in-between" year. Our family isn't
complete. We're waiting for Cameron and even
next year is gonna be kind of just another day.
Until a kid's 3, they're just not getting the whole
"CHRISTMAS IS TOMORROW!" awesomeness. And
don't we need to get rid of a few of Vienna's toys so
she's even excited? I don't mean to be a scrooge here
but I just don't remember ever having this many
toys. And looking at old pictures? I don't think
I did. I've been scanning those recently. Here's
some of me at Vienna's age...
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- Yeah, I'd say the
mailman is safe. My goodness it seems like Vienna
hopped in a time machine for a few of those. But yeah,
if my toys didn't fit in my toy chest? They were no
longer my toys, they were this good guy named Will's
toys. LOL. We just didn't have the room. We have even
less room now so some of this shit has to GO.
What a scrooge.
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- But only for a
little longer. Christmas 2015 will be when the real
family fun starts. No doubt. And it certainly won't
involve The Flashing LED lights of Terror. Good lord,
man.
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- Alright, here's
hopin' Anchorman 2 is fun tonight. :-)
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- Adam
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