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So I braved the mobs at KMart today to buy unsexy nails from which to string the outdoor lights on the front porch. I found some in a nice little plastic box with assorted small nail sizes. Perfect since my nail supply has dwindled to almost nothing. So far, so good.

I came home and dragged the lights out. The first rule of hanging Christmas lights is to plug them in first to make sure they work. They did. Every last one of them.

I hammered the nails in and started stringing lights. It didn’t take too long, really. And it’s a warmish day out so my fingers didn’t freeze. Then the moment of illumination. I plugged in the lights and whad’ya know. Between plugging them in the first time and plugging them in the second time, something happened. About every two feet there’s a section of lights that don’t light.

You can be sure I said some choice phrases about that. Now I have to go brave the mobs again in the hope that there might be some lights left at the store and then I get to take down the ones I just strung and restring the new ones. ‘Cuz I’m just not going to stand out there on my ladder sticking a brand new bulb into 300 sockets to see which one is the dead one. Grrrr.

Posted on 12/10/06 at 03:06 PM
 




Linkmeister

You don’t have a flasher bulb in the string somewhere, do you?  I’ve seen that happen; the string doesn’t work and doesn’t work, and then when the flasher gets started the whole string works just fine.

United States   Posted by Linkmeister on 12/10/06  at  04:48 PM





Kate

Nope, no flashers. These are the icicle lights with no blinkage.

The thing I’m a little puzzled by is that there are 3 strands of lights plugged in together at various points and if only one bulb was dead, that should only affect one strand of lights. But the outage is uniform across the three strands. As I said, about every two feet. I don’t understand.

United States   Posted by Kate on 12/10/06  at  05:02 PM





Dave

There’s such a thing as ‘sexy nails’?  I want some…

United States   Posted by Dave on 12/11/06  at  07:19 AM





Kate

Did you know nails come in colors?  I recently learned about the white ones, but my other choices were silver, brass, black, red, and green. I chose the plain ole unsexy silvery nails.

Besides, everyone else there seemed to be buying Christmas presents and decorations and wrapping paper and I was just there for nails. I had to wait in line at the checkout for 20 minutes to buy nails.

United States   Posted by Kate on 12/11/06  at  02:22 PM





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