Beagle
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Ok so...
I'm working 55 yo 60 hours a week right now, 6 days a week. and my wife emails me and says, "daddy wants to know if we are interested in going to see Christmas lights at the Texas Motor Speedway with them? It's $20/car" Really? drive 1/2 hour or more in traffic to get to the TMS, then drive around outside it thru a bunch of Christmas lights and pay $20 to do so, then drive back home for 1/2 hour or more - all after working a full day at work. Sure! I'd love to! (NOT) but I will. because I love my wife and it gets me "husband" and "in-law" points. 
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Ham N Egz
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you remember, Bit, was offering bribes to people to take his place at a function...
just sayin...
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bapu
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Pay my airfare, room and bored and I'll be your surrogate Beag
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Beagle
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you remember, Bit, was offering bribes to people to take his place at a function...
just sayin...
I think that was actually Randy offering to pay for a surrogate to attend a wedding with his wife... but point taken!
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Beagle
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bapu
Pay my airfare, room and bored and I'll be your surrogate Beag
only problem is that I think my wife would notice the difference. this is a "finding things for us to do to spend time together" sort of event. besides - the moobs would be a different size. she'd definitely notice...
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bapu
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I could pad mine 
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Beagle
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bapu
I could pad mine
[insert rimshot]
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Don't feel bad Beags, I am always doing those kinds of things. Somehow I always get talked into it. My wife has at least three events lined up for us. I go along because I know she enjoys it and sometimes I even enjoy it. Who knows maybe it will be fun...well maybe.
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Beagle
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Don't feel bad Beags, I am always doing those kinds of things. Somehow I always get talked into it. My wife has at least three events lined up for us. I go along because I know she enjoys it and sometimes I even enjoy it. Who knows maybe it will be fun...well maybe.
AH! the eternal optimist! I can't really imagine it will be fun for me. she will enjoy it but me? meh. I'd much rather spend my off time working on music instead of driving around for an hour or more (not counting to/from time) looking at "pretty lights"
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I love driving around looking at Christmas lights! I can't wait to go to Branson Mo. this year. The wife promised me I could! I was jumping up and down when she told me. Of course, I had to do it outside, ya know, being 300 + pounds I didn't want to end up in the basement. :-)
But I was excited!
I have 3 Christmas trees up already in my house and I haven't even brought up the boxes of lighted porcelain Christmas village yet. There's 11 of them. Totes full of them that is. I got barns, and houses, and windmills, and churches, Santa's Workshops, and little people huddling around campfires (that light up). Then I have a set of real Christmas bells. They have little padded hammers in them hooked to coils and a little midi unit. You plug in the Christmas cartridge and it plays Christmas music via the attached bells. It's a pain to set up so the bells aren't touching anything and they ring real loud, but it's worth the effort. Then I got the Christmas traveling circus train to set up. 8 cars, all with lights and animations. It plays music too, but I took it apart and wired in a switch so I can turn it off. It clashes with the bells.
Then we get to the interior lighting. I got 25 boxes of 100 light sets.
I may keep it simple on the exterior illumination this year. Got a lot of other stuff to do.
For the first time in a very long time I'm in a Christmassy mood this year and I'm gonna roll with it.
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Beagle
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you go, Bub! sounds like you could get all "Griswald" on us there! LOL!
glad you get excited about Christmas lights!
normally I'll put up a tree and decorate it and put a few things around the house and lights up around the exterior of the house, but I've not even done that this year and probably won't just because my kids are all grown, my grandkids are all in other states, so no kids will be coming around and this year I'm just too pooped!
but driving around looking at other people's lights has never interested me. yeah, they're cool if I see them on the way somewhere, but paying to drive around looking at a display is not my idea of a grand ol' time.
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Bub
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I've always loved working with lights. I love wiring buildings, electronics, LED's, and all that stuff.
We're having 13 people, 1 baby, and 4 dogs here for Christmas at the new place this year. 4 of the people are staying for 4 days. I'm hoping I can pull this off and not pull a Clark Griswold. I'm hoping to make it something special that people will remember. Hopefully. Or they'll think I'm nuts. :)
I can understand about not wanting to pay to see that stuff. Some of them are much better than others. :)
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Reece, have you ever seen that light show along I-20? Between Longview and Terrell, somewhere.
I used to drive a sales route between Dallas and Shreveport and every year, there would be this huge, drive-through Christmas park there. Just seeing it from the highway was impressive.
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Beagle
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no, I can probably count the number of times I've been on 20 east of Dallas on one hand! I wasn't even aware that it was there!
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You da man Beagle... or is it dog....?
Either way... you is it.
we did more than a few of those "ride around and look at lights" trips when my girls were younger...and a few of the really big commercial places too. It's family time.... nothing else matters.
In recent years we simply have to walk half a block (we can actually see most of it from our side porch)..... as my neighbor on the next block down gets her husband out in the yard after thanksgiving and has him start the decorating.
I counted almost 50 of those fan powered blow up decorations in their yard last Christmas. That doesn't count the lights on the house, the trees, the yard.
This lady now "decorates" in like manner for every holiday or perceived holiday that comes along on the calender. Poor Don. I know he dreads those holidays. It was well past tacky many, many years ago.
But... not only is her house a neighborhood event.... people drive in from all over the county bringing their kids and grand kids to see it. So I guess it's worth it.
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Hey Beag,
I feel for you. every year I get roped into driving around the back woods here looking at all the lights folks put up. But I think this year it's going to go to the side. Oldest daughter and her family moved in with us about six months ago so things are a bit more stressed around here. Wife is not so apt to do those sort of things.
But honestly, I ain't going to mis it.
Kudos to you!
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Beagle
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lucky man!
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Been there, done that... or something like it many times. Now that I am 60 I feel like I can say "no" and get away with it.
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Beagle
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Been there, done that... or something like it many times. Now that I am 60 I feel like I can say "no" and get away with it.
J
60's the magic number? drat! just over 10 years to go! 
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