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Know when the holidays have officially arrived?
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I got my LED tree lights at Menard’s, a home improvement chain in the midwest, but Lowe’s also carries plenty. I first bought some Phillips-brand, but SWMBO didn’t like the color temp, the CRI wasn’t right:-)
I wound up with a Menard’s house brand called Enchanted Forest no 284-0931, in a red box holding a string of 70. They were having a huge sale the day I came, and I got these for $4 a set, as I recall. I recommend you over-buy by at least 2 boxes past what you figure you need, and then you can return the extra sets, my problem was buying about 2 sets too few and they ran out of stock for 2 weeks before I could get back.
They tout you can hook up to 43 of these together in a row off one socket. One string uses 4.8 watts versus 28.8 for incandescent, and they tout a 25,000 hour bulb life, don’t know if they are counting the 48 weeks it is off in storage there:-)
Still a little yellow-blue compared to the incandescent Italian white mini’s we’re used to. I suggest you surreptitiously plug a set in somewhere in the store to be sure you like the color before you buy.
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You’re generous to a fault, Ron, but then you’d be robbing my wife of the chance to find the bargain non-functioning unit, victoriously negotiate it down to a pittance, and surprise me with it, me to take it apart and put the new battery in it and be a big man with amazing mad techno skillz in front of my kids for disassembling it and then fixing it while they watch. That’s what we did with the 4-gig mini I have now. You’re a peach, but I think I should do it the way we have been on this next one… seems to entertain the whole family that way:-)
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I’d hate to do anything that might break up a functional family unit.
;o)
Best,
Ron
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As a nice cross religious Christmas celebrating consumer I will always vote for matzoh ball soup as a favorite holiday treat. So delicious and a great way to warm up on a cold Christmas morning, those latkes would be great for soup dipping.
Jake Williams
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Re: Music – Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow – perfect mix of Rock, Blues, Funk and the 1970’s. Lava lamp, disco ball or smoke machine optional. Just be careful listening in the car, you may find yourself going 90 without noticing (full disclosure, me driving 90 is about as likely as the Star Wars Holiday Special coming out on Blu-Ray)
Re: Holiday Music – Hate it with a capital H – only because it is in such heavy rotation this time of year. If I have to spend more than 10 minutes at the mall I have a problem. In small doses, however, Burl Ives’s Christmas album is awesome.
Back in 5th grade, as one of two Jewish kids in the whole grade, I remember kids asking me why I knew the words to Jingle Bells or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Not “how” but “why” as if it were somehow illegal. Granted this was the same group of kids who did not know New York was both a city and a state. No offense to the fine people of Iowa – I’m sure it was a fluke.
Re: Star Wars Holiday Special – I remember watching this when it originally aired – it is pretty awful if you can find it online. Worth watching for the pure insanity.
Ok, I’ll save you the trouble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNGjKnTzaQ
Happy Life Day.
Mike Cohen
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Not Lucas’ proudest moment. But now Harvey Corman and Bea Arthur and Art Carney are enshrined in SW canon.
/dooooo noooot waaaaannnnttt!
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Boy that truly was awful!
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