Xmas light's and my wife are going to send me over the edge

[Delphinus]

OMG man.

This year I have a few strings of LED's up. Both me and my wife have just been run so ragged the last 2 months we were happy we got any up at all.

It is nice to see them up though.

I have these colour changing LED strings on the back fence which if I watch them as I'm moving I can see they are physically changing from blue to red to make that purple. As soon as I stop and look at them while still then the colours blend back to purple. Do other people notice this too? I guess it must be happening at 60Hz so must blink 30 times blue and 30 times red in the space of one second so I think that's kinda neat to be able to see that.

1400 lights. Ahhhh yikes. Well, look on the bright side: at least it's not -40 or something..

[zum14]

Sorry dude, I know how you feel. Sorry for the crappy pics, I had to run out and quickly snap these as the camera was dying.


This is my street.









I live on whats called Candy Cane Lane. The lights continue around 2 blocks. Basically you get hassled for money to put the lights across the street, you get letters on your door if you dont participate, and you get to deal with people crawling down your street that will stop to take a picture instead of pulling over then look at you when you drive around them just to get to your driveway. They told me of this after I signed the papers on the house. I think next year were going to look into renting our frontage to a company for advertising, they can pay for all the dumb lights. I liked christmas lights till someone told me I had to do them.

[cwatkins]

Originally Posted by zum14

Sorry dude, I know how you feel. Sorry for the crappy pics, I had to run out and quickly snap these as the camera was dying.

I live on whats called Candy Cane Lane. The lights continue around 2 blocks. Basically you get hassled for money to put the lights across the street, you get letters on your door if you dont participate, and you get to deal with people crawling down your street that will stop to take a picture instead of pulling over then look at you when you drive around them just to get to your driveway. They told me of this after I signed the papers on the house. I think next year were going to look into renting our frontage to a company for advertising, they can pay for all the dumb lights. I liked christmas lights till someone told me I had to do them.

Now I know where all those Gensets ended up after they were done at the olympics... Powering half of Prince George

[zum14]

There's one around the corner where everything in his yard flashes. Everything, and theres lots of it. I would hate to live across from that house.