John Garrant 0 Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when... You find yourself outside late at nightin the rain putting lights on trees - in one handis a string of lights and in the other is a tree sawfor cutting branches - just so the display is more visible! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rossg10 0 Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Were you driving by my house the other night?!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jeffmill 0 Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 John Garrant wrote: You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when... ...you get up at 4:00am to go outside in the cold with your laptop, so none of your neighbors or passing traffic will see the changes you just made to a new sequence... jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blearning 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when... You listen to the ticking of a clock in the kitchen as you make coffee and think it has a nice steady beat to synchronze music to. And say to your self YAH it would work. A big christmasy decorated Clock and tick tock to the lights ...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Garrant 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hey - this is coming along nicely! I'm going to put together the top 10 list after Christmas! Keep adding! We will all vote on them. John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roadnut 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 ....when, once your Christmas display sequences are completed, you think about sequencing some Valentine Day love songswith the red and white strands of lights. PS - don't forget Green and White for St. Patricks day, although drinking songs just don't cordinate all that well!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashleigh_B 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when... You wake up in the middle of the night from a car passing by with it's head lights on and the radio blasting that you think your display has just turned on randomly. Or You sit at your computer all day browsing a website called.. PlanetChristmas! :shock: (okay, okay, okay, I know.. stop it will the corny dry humor. ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blearning 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 PS - don't forget Green and White for St. Patricks day, although drinking songs just don't cordinate all that well! after a few drinks it really doesn't matter :laughing: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flanigan 2 Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 ....when you come out of the workshop from a long sequencing session and the wife says "Who are you?!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sasmuse 0 Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 ...when you're sitting in church listening to the "special music" segment and thinking I could sequence that....:laughing: Sally Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flanigan 2 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Okay - I need to get a life. Enjoy! 1. When a chain store calls you to see if you can spare any light strings 2. You download a "new" sequence only to realize you wrote it two years ago 3. You save every little packet of spare bulbs, but always buy new strings anyway. 4. If your passwords are Christmas related 5. You run out to the yard at 3AM because you thought of another thing to add 6. If you home-school and you teach your kid(s) sequencing as part of Art class. 7. If D-Light or LOR calls you for spare parts. 8. If watching Close Encounters brings a nostaligic tear to you eye 9. If you remove all the photos of your kids from your wallet and replace them with pictures of your display 10. If you make $30/hr at work and spend two hours fixing a $2 light string 11. If China has to lay off workers because you spent Christmas away from home 12. You can accurately guesstimate the current draw on all the houses in your neighborhood. 13. You plead with the local store to hold several blow molds until you have room for them. 14. A new city ordinance is written to require drivers to wear sunglasses when driving down your street. 15. D-Light answers the phone with -"What have you dreamed up NOW?" 16. You're thinking about next years show as your putting the lights away. 17. If D-Light sends you a Christmas card 18. If "Mad Russians Christmas" makes you feel warm and fuzzy. 18a. If "Wizards in Winter" makes you want to puke. 19. If you've ever taken an ink-blot test and described them all as various blow-mold figures. 20. You shower the Bride and Groom with mini-bulbs 21. You wire your gas grill ignition to a controller - timed to "Burning Down the House" 21a. You wire all the lights IN your house to a controller! 22. Your power company sends you a Christmas card with twenty stock certificates inside. 23. Your kids rather sit on the curb and watch your light show rather than go to Disneyland. 24. Your display is part of the Superbowl half-time show Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Gelinas 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far ........... When the kids ask "...where's Dad" and mom says....."where else....." :laughing: Ken Gelinas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scottsgrfx 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far ........... Your co-workers and neighbors start asking how it's going on the display, and ask when the lighting is. "Of course all year up to this point they thought I was nuts." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when... You start imagining how to decorate and synchronize someone else's house. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blearning 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Scott wrote: You start imagining how to decorate and synchronize someone else's house. OOOOOOEEEEH that one hit home ... LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Garrant 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 WOW! I guess I started a pretty good topic! Keep up the good work - I've got a few more ideas on what to do with these. John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scottsgrfx 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when... 1>you start putting battery operated lights on your dog along with a set of antlers. 2> your already planning next years display and haven't finished this years yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 blearning wrote: Scott wrote: OOOOOOEEEEH that one hit home ... LOL We must be sick, or warped. This can't be "normal" can it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mary Jayne 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Your son says...he will help you clean outthe gutters on your house but he will not help you put up your lights, as he is not going to help further your addiction. You begin to think like Wiley Coyote...Super Genius...and come up with all kind of ways to try something out for your display...only to have it fail time and again, but you do not give up. No...not even when the mega tree starts falling on your head and all you can do is hold up a little umbrella trying to fend it off. Then you actually wish there was a Acme company for you to call up and order all kind of neat things from. Like a jet pack, so you can reach the top peak of the house without a bucket truck. Clark Griswold...you consider him just another Christmas Lightamateur. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jeffmill 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Scottsgrfx wrote: You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far ........... Your co-workers and neighbors start asking how it's going on the display, and ask when the lighting is. "Of course all year up to this point they thought I was nuts." This one really hits home Scott! I listened to it all year. Now it's time to light it up, and they're all fired up to be first in line to see it. I'll certainly give the local PC folks a heads up when the shows run. The rest can figure it out on their own...:laughing: jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BetterDays 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Flanigan wrote: ....when you come out of the workshop and realize that your wife sold the house and moved :edited for my version: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BadSCR 0 Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 You know its bad when.... 1) You have to get another 200amp service ran to your house.... :laughing: 2) Or get a temporary pole or two just for the lights every year... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dale W 4 Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 You know it is bad when: ...The power company votes you "Customer of the Year" for putting up your full Christmas display. ...The power company sends you a Get Well Card when you only put out 10,000 lights. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Lomnicki SR 0 Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 When you havea LED strap-on light that you put on your hat to work outdoors after the sun goes down and the200 hour battery is dead! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blearning 0 Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 John Lomnicki SR wrote: When you havea LED strap-on light that you put on your hat to work outdoors after the sun goes down and the200 hour battery is dead! I love mine, and the cats have a blast with chasing the light beam, and You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when... you have a complete strap on LED headlight backup unit on standby, JIC your battery on your production unit goes dead ... LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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