Sentence of Dave: Another Long Journey to Genius

We've had a dog in our house since January 2012. First was our beloved black lab and Weimaraner Sirius. He was a great dog, and he died too young (of tick diseases).

Then in May of 2018, we rescued Lola. She was billed as a lab/Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, but once we saw a real Rhodesian Ridgeback we realized she might be a faux-desian pitbull. She's a little nuts, but I treat her like the daughter I never had. And she's been vaccinated against Lyme's disease, so hopefully the ticks won't do her in.

Lola turned two today, and she's enjoying something Sirius never had: outdoor lighting. A few months ago, I strung some Sunthin outdoor patio lights on our back porch. Two 48 foot strands. There's even a remote control. All those years of taking the dog out back before bed, and I never did it with any kind of lighting. Sometimes I would take a flashlight. But now we do it in style.

The theme this week is that some ideas take a LONG time to implement. You've just got to hang in there until your brain does something good.

2 comments:

NeilNovember 3, 2019 at 2:04 PM
I caught the low-voltage LED lighting bug about 8 years ago. Now planes make their turn for EWR directly overhead. But don’t let it fool you. Just because it’s “low-voltage, it doesn’t mean it won’t throw you backwards if you forget to turn off the transformer while splicing. The other downside is the dogs now need sunscreen before they go out at night...
DaveNovember 4, 2019 at 12:11 AM
i would never splice without turning off the transformer! that's madness!

in a moment, i'll google "splice" and "transformer," but i'm guessing the transformer is the thing that connects to the outdoor plug socket and has remote capability.