The decorating frenzy...
As promised, here is an account of Sunday's holiday activities. My entire day in timeline form.
07:00 - Got relieved from my 12 hour shift at work. Got into car and drove straight to church.
10:00 - Church commenced.
11:40 - Church ceased. (short service for some reason)
12:00 - Got home, changed clothes and proceeded to untangle 9 25-foot strings of lights to go on the gutters and roofline.
13:00 - After spending an hour untangling and testing above mentioned lights, I determined that four of the strings needed all the lights on them replaced due to weathering reducing them to basically clear glass. Also realized that since there are 25 lights on each string and replacement bulbs come in packs of 4 for 99 cents, it was cheaper to buy 4 new strings of lights at 5 bucks apiece. Entered car and proceeded to hell, or Wal-Mart, whichever you prefer.
13:30 - Searched for C7 lights for 20 minutes and finally found them with the assistance of a slightly ugly, MONUMENTALLY stupid employee of hell. Paid for lights and headed home.
14:00 - Proceeded onto roof of domicile with wife on the ground to feed me the lights to clip to the gutters. First clip snapped in half. More to follow.
14:45 - Finally completed the gutter lights. Should have taken 10 minutes but since every other clip broke and I had to change them out as I went, it took 45. Whee. At this point I'm ready to end all life on the planet.
14:50 - After lamenting over the clip situation (by lamenting I mean cursing at the top of my lungs from the roof of my house) I proceeded to start adorning the roofline with 5 more strings of lights.
14:51 - Black & Decker Powershottm staple gun jammed. More to follow.
16:00 - Completed lighting duties and did final test. Apparently, five bulbs that were working before they were put on the house have decided to take the rest of the holidays off. Back to the roof.
16:05 - Bulbs changed out and all are burning.
16:15 - Placed and secured a very retarded looking inflatable snowman on the lawn and plugged him in. Unfortunately, it worked.
16:30 - Decorating complete.
07:00 - Got relieved from my 12 hour shift at work. Got into car and drove straight to church.
10:00 - Church commenced.
11:40 - Church ceased. (short service for some reason)
12:00 - Got home, changed clothes and proceeded to untangle 9 25-foot strings of lights to go on the gutters and roofline.
13:00 - After spending an hour untangling and testing above mentioned lights, I determined that four of the strings needed all the lights on them replaced due to weathering reducing them to basically clear glass. Also realized that since there are 25 lights on each string and replacement bulbs come in packs of 4 for 99 cents, it was cheaper to buy 4 new strings of lights at 5 bucks apiece. Entered car and proceeded to hell, or Wal-Mart, whichever you prefer.
13:30 - Searched for C7 lights for 20 minutes and finally found them with the assistance of a slightly ugly, MONUMENTALLY stupid employee of hell. Paid for lights and headed home.
14:00 - Proceeded onto roof of domicile with wife on the ground to feed me the lights to clip to the gutters. First clip snapped in half. More to follow.
14:45 - Finally completed the gutter lights. Should have taken 10 minutes but since every other clip broke and I had to change them out as I went, it took 45. Whee. At this point I'm ready to end all life on the planet.
14:50 - After lamenting over the clip situation (by lamenting I mean cursing at the top of my lungs from the roof of my house) I proceeded to start adorning the roofline with 5 more strings of lights.
14:51 - Black & Decker Powershottm staple gun jammed. More to follow.
16:00 - Completed lighting duties and did final test. Apparently, five bulbs that were working before they were put on the house have decided to take the rest of the holidays off. Back to the roof.
16:05 - Bulbs changed out and all are burning.
16:15 - Placed and secured a very retarded looking inflatable snowman on the lawn and plugged him in. Unfortunately, it worked.
16:30 - Decorating complete.
I could go on with the rest of the day and evening's activities but I'm already too tired from typing this. Let's just say I went to the new club to see it and wound up building it.
Good times.
posted by Dropdtuner at 10:28 PM
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