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Synchronized Christmas Light Show

Amanda Congdon of RocketBoom fame introduced us to a house lit with Christmas tree lights syncrhonized to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s "Wizards in Winter" (from The Lost Christmas Eve album) in her Monday show then again on Tuesday which also revealed the house to be in Mason, OH. Apparently Carson Williams used 88 light-o-rama channels to control his 16,000 christmas lights.

Amanda has the full video of the house’s show.

On Tuesday Amanda told us that the light show had made it into Snopes with an "undetermined" status. I guess I need to send my folks on the hunt for the house. Should be easy since Amanda’s Tuesday show also revealed the home owner’s name with credits to Alek. Now I think Amanda pronounced Snopes incorrectly. I pronounce it with a long O same as you would "nope" but Amanda pronounced it with an ew sound like in Snoopy which would make sense because the definition of snoop is " To pry into the private affairs of others, especially by prowling about." however I think that it wouldn’t be Snopes then it would be Snoops.

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From the mouths of babes

How to horrify Dad.

While walking through Walmart, Amy (3) says, "He’s black."
We continue walking as Dad processes Amy continues, "I want him to be like us."
Dad thinking he misheard the conversation asks, "what?"
Amy declares, "I want him to be white."

A thousand thoughts rush through my head most questioning how I could possibly be teaching bigotry to my children. Let’s see. No racial jokes. Hmm. We don’t have many friends from other races and cultures right now but for the most part our schedules and economics have alienated ourselves from everyone so we don’t really see many people outside of the family. I do like the theme song to All In The Family but I don’t think that would do it. Finally I land on the conclusion that it is simply the naivety of a child’s world.

Dad, the Meathead that he is, flubs with "that’s not nice. We like people just the way they are."
Mom upon hearing the story soars in on angelic wings and artfully delivers this wonderful metaphor of crayons to people and how boring our pictures would be if the only color in our box was white.

Both ladies left Dad’s chin on the ground today!