See?

And I could "hear" him snickering...and really didn't take it badly.

I mean, anyone who forwards you a link to "gopher moat" can't be all bad!

Hmmmm, has anyone seen the crossdressing mayor who is missing from Idiotville?

Last I heard he was mayornapped by a rogue mouse on a jetski.

Okay I have a small problem and could use some help. Every year for the "December holiday event" (we can't say the REAL word), I put up lights out front. The neighbor across the street does too and we are about the only ones in our immediate vicinity that do so. Of course, many neighbors are of another faith so naturally would not put up lights. Anyway, last year I really slam dunked the neighbor. She uses colored lights and I use only white rice lights. Last year I used about 30 sets of rice lights and had an amazing display.

This year she raised the bar a little bit and got even more colored lights and, on top of that, she put them up two weeks ago! Fine. She fired her bullet. I currently only have about 23 strands of rice lights and I turning over every stone to get more but they are hard to get here - especially in 120V. My plan is to put up about 50 or 60 strands of lights and, although my neighbor doesn't know it, I purchased a 16 channel light controller with synchronized music from animatedlighting.com. Neighbor lady's goin down! I'm gonna take her down to Chinatown! Er...excuse me....oh, yes....my problem....

I'm a little concerned about so many strands of lights. Before I put them on, I have to complete a rather complex mathematical model factoring in the amount of heat generated by rice lights, the rate of convective heat transfer as a function of atmospheric temperature, humidity and wind velocity (factoring in seasonal variations) and the auto-ignition temperature of cellulose. I’ve created the CFD model running on a bank of 16 dual core processors but need to match it to empirical data and, so far, I have significant error. Any ideas?

riiiiiiiigggghhhhhht....

You just keep that happy thought.

The man asked if we have an IDEA

"I have significant error. Any ideas? "

You are using the wrong colour cable ties. Problem solved.

She's right Pio - you should have thought of that.

Good point. I think I'll go buy some more cable ties.

Hey BigK, yesterday I'd just finished calculating 160 student grade point averages and I'm also helping organise the wedding of the century (at least that's what I think it is if the planning is anything to go by ). I get a tad snappy and grumpy when I'm very tired.

lol, I guess that's an apology.

Well then I guess I'll accept your apology!

Speaking of the wedding, well not really, speaking of DD and her fiance....you all know that Rob is notorious for not wanting to go on holiday. He "wants" to go but always finds an excuse. The kids have told me they want to give him (and me, by extension) a week's accommodation in Fiji for Christmas and for his 60th birthday next year. All I have to do is find a date and pay for the airfares. They've sworn me to secrecy so that he won't find reasons they shouldn't do it and so they can present him with a done deal. I'm very uncomfortable keeping "secrets" from Rob. Is a "good" secret ok to keep?

How are we supposed to tell the difference?

I think Dr Harley specifically says this type of secret is OK.

Heeeeeeey, someone at work the other day accused me of being "permanently chirpy".

I think so. But, my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it. :RollieEyes:

Good, because I think it will be very exciting that he doesn't know about it. He'll HAVE to take a holiday and he REALLY needs one.

BTW BigK you had a holiday in Fiji a while ago. Where did you stay? The kids thought Denerau would be nice?