I had it all planned out down to the day. I knew I would miss out on some of the setup time due to my baby girl being born and taking care of her (which I happily gave up). I was right on schedule when WHAM! the cold of death hit and knocked me out for five days! As I type this, I sound like a life long chain smoker hacking a lung. This make it impossible to do anything. Needless to say the show is late starting this year. Tonight is the first night that we have something running, one song.
Thanks to a friend for the heads up! The 2012 Tour of Lights nominations are now being taken on the Chico Enterprise Record’s (ER) website. If you like the show that we put on and would like others to see it as well this is an easy way to spread the word. There are a couple homes in the Nob Hill area (West of California Park) that I plan to nominate that have their lights up already.
It's December 30th, and we have decided to extend our shows until the 5th of January. This is in large part due to the appealdemocrat.com light contest that we have been entered in that ends the 5th. We have found that the contest is kind of a pain to vote in and not many people take the time to register… wait for the confirmation email… then go back and vote. Thank you, though, to the 28 that have voted… As it stands we are lagging by 3. There are two houses tied at 31 votes then us at 28 votes.
Feeling kinda crumby (have a sinus infection) I grumbled when we got a knock on the door tonight thinking it was another person trying to sell us something that we didn't want or need. Now having very little voice my wife answered the door and to our surprise there was the Mote Family. Continue reading
For those of you that came by last night… Well we are up again. We had a breaker fail on us.
After about 3hrs of soldering the FM transmitter is up and running crystal clear on 107.5FM (Thanks to my Mother-in-law for the "early" Birthday present!). I also spent a couple hours working through an LED strand that decided that half did not want to work. I finally replaced it with a spare and I will work on that one more when I get time (hahahahahhaha)
You will now find some new pages on the site including a guestbook and a fun facts page with Christmas related trivia.
Two FM Transmitters down, 4 split fingers, and over ten thousand lights later we are up and running! (Well kinda). All I can say for the FM transmitters is CHEAP. The next one I get will be higher quality so that when I touch it it doesn't short itself. So needless to say, we are not currently broadcasting on 107.5 FM. We are however playing the music through some speakers that I have mounted outside under the eves so that the music can be heard from the street.
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It is almost that time… SETUP! The plan is to begin setting up on Sunday November 21st. We hope that the crew can come out and help out throughout the week to be up by the 26th. The first show will be at 6:00pm on the 26th.
