The many faces of Christmas













Eric and i headed down to Owego on Saturday morning to continue the festivities with the Myers clan. Kristin hosted everyone for dinner and the stomach bug alert level kicked down to yellow thankfully after anna started feeling better.









The afternoon consisted of exhausted sport - inclined nephews, the first try of an experimental Hor' duerve "Grandma's Garlic Yum Yum" and much sugar-enhanced goofyness. Presents were unwrapped, beverages consumed and mash potatoes thoroughly ketchupped. Nephews cracked smiles and there was much rejoicing.























To finish the evening, the ladies did their best Isadora Duncan imitation.

Merry Christmas!

Eric and I both were awake pretty early. So much for a holiday and sleeping in. We entertained each other fairly well with our stocking contents.














The circus peanuts were not universally received.

Its got to be the morning after...








Well, the annual holiday party was a bash. Despite the last minute stress bombs.

Eric and I were up early to start getting the house ready and we were moving at a fairly good clip until 9:30 am when eric turned on the vacuum cleaner. Half the house promptly lost electricity
and the breaker was not the problem.....

!!

SO - a phone call later and the landlord and his electrician were ovder around 11 and were here for 4.5 hours trying the find the problem. Eric and I told the landlord this was the same circuit we have been having problems with and since half the circuit was still on... there was a bad junction box somewhere. Hopefully not burning in a wall....
Meanwhile - they have tools all over the kitchen and I am tapping my foot to start cooking for the party........ My sister Kristin and her friend Chris arrive to help out and they finally clean up around 3:30 or 4:00 YIKES.
So at 3:30(?) the landlord locates the problem...... turns out it is a... junction box..... in the back stairwell.....

Annnnd off we go.....


The party was great. Especially with electricity. The extra help really was awesome. I got to spend actual minutes with all our guests. Our resident photographer was on hand to document the party. But here is the morning after...

Happy Holidays part 2




This years holiday card.


St. Eric - patron saint of abandoned disco balls

St. Tom - patron saint of old grumpy volkswagens

Happy Holidays!









This month has been a blur. Work strangely became nutty busy [ with a sprinkle of unreality thrown in ] and rather than just focus on getting ready for our party, I have been making messes around the house rather than cleaning them up. We have managed EVEN MORE Leds for the holidays - more pics later.. All fun.

Success!

Now to find a suitable project box!

Flux capacitor!






The holidays are coming and there is a zillion things to do - but instead I have made a mess of the dining room table with this. IT is a home electronics kit for a color organ. THose old 70's disco-y things that made light to the music? Eric and I have several off E bay and I bought this kit last year. So i finally dragged this back out to try and put together. Not finished yet - but it is fun to try and decipher the assembly diagram and put it together. Hopefully I will not burn down the house. Some examples on YouTube:





Hopefully Eric and I will make it up to this