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 Post subject: Pray that me and Weston don't diePosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:20 am 
We're going to light the ole English Tudor with lights again... The two peaks of the roofline are like 35 feet... one of them hovers over concrete...so, splatting wouldn't be good. If we fall from the roof, we might just slide and crash 15 feet or so, but it's hard to hang off the ladder to the left and right without falling...and at the towering heights, we...or me...could slip on the slicky wet ladder...and drop with a dull thump on the grass below. I'm being ridiculous, but...it scares me to death every year. Now I have to pull up my digital file of the diagram - showing me the strategic method to route the lights and electricity. Ever see that Chevy Chase movie? That's like, our house when we're done. It usually takes a day and a half...not because it's some big house. It's just a regular house, but, we put a lot of lights on the sucker. Why? Because we're real big into decorating and putting a lot of crap up every Christmas!! It's not the "reason for the season", but... it helps our glowing faces to shine when we go outside and look - with warm smiles on our fireplace eyes... and the hearth of our head mantle flickers with dash-away embers. And visions of Texas Tours dance through our heads. Here we go. 
bd ------------------------------------- 
Climbing up...traversing the vortexial blump to the vertextial vlatress and peaking the crest at nightfall. 
This shot is looking down onto the tiny Weston below... Looking down the valley where I almost lost my footing tonight and skived down, down, onto Weston - who hopefully would break my fall. 
Out there...to the tip of mount crumpit... that's about 15 feet out. 
Well... see how scary? mom, mom...I'm on the roof!! 
Dizzying heights... a shot without my scribbling. 
Weston shoots me. "...When you say he's looking good, he acts as if it's understood he's cool..." 
Pwang!! 
This is the decent. 
That's looking down the back - where I can tap into plenty of juice. 
For once, I didn't even make this coffee. 
Chops is a trained to kill WARDOG - trained by the late, late Baroness Froiline Muher', who, in war time, trained 30 rabid huskies for WAR CRIMES and for eating their enemies at night... So, don't ever try to get us. ------------------ 
Just a shot of the finished first round where we outlined the house. Now that I've built this all up, the final thing won't really be any big deal. Remember, the thread was started because I didn't want Weston and I to die... not to show anybody our lights. It's just evolved becuz someone asked for pics. When we get back from LA, I'll try to shoot something to finish out this thread. Thanks. bd _________________ EisleyWebGuy "The industrialists never saw the fruit of their own labor - Post Moderism, which I now proclaim as dead. Their forefathers digital revolutionists, have accelerated the final resolve by punctuating an end to our chaotic journey with a new manifesto and a new era: The Age of Meaning." (manifesto's sold separate) Welcome: Illuminists |
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Joined: 04 Nov 2002 | Posts: 5180 | Location: Tyler, Texas
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:32 am
Godspeed to you, fellows. I would prefer that Eisley doesn't have to find a replacement drummer, or begins only doing acoustic shows, and they'd lose half their fanbase without you, Boyd.  Anyway, seriously... Be careful putting up those lights. Let us know once you get them up and running--I don't want to hear "They look good even if they aren't lit" or anything of the sort! 
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:34 am
good luck! yes national lampoons. i like that series of films Christmas vacation was good, but national lampoons vacation was the best, with wallies world, yes i like. good good. but yes be safe. _________________ "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." - Charles Darwin (legend) |
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Joined: 04 Apr 2003 | Posts: 1296 | Location: Gateshead - good ol' blighty, up north
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:34 am
yeah, dying would be bad.... And without you around, no one's gonna get my cracks on Ed Bronfman when the time comes. _________________ "It's the new golden fact." |
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Joined: 04 Nov 2003 | Posts: 1000 | Location: Camp Anawanna
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:43 am
may the force be with you and awsome that you add a diagram _________________ www.capricorn15.net http://img17.photobucket.com/albums/v50/tgukempire/ 
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Joined: 09 Dec 2003 | Posts: 629 | Location: san diego (city on the edge of forever) california
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:59 am
Careful, guys. As the hollow days said, may the Force be with you. How 'bout some pics if it all goes right?  _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Joined: 15 Aug 2003 | Posts: 25184 | Location: East Texas
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:05 am
TheAntrider wrote: How 'bout some pics if it all goes right? That's what I was going to ask, but I thought it might come off semi-creepy.  It would be cool to see the product of your efforts, and if it really stands up to Chevy Chase's decorating prowess... 
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:35 am
Yeah, I thought for a second about the creepy factor ... but I figured it would be at night and you'd only mainly be able to see lights. I already know where they live anyway ... beacause I have a friend who lives nearby. I'm not the type to abuse that kind of knowledge, though _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Joined: 15 Aug 2003 | Posts: 25184 | Location: East Texas
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:46 am
oh you know youre a stalker jamie. dont lie. but on another note, good luck with the lighting situation. dont fall or cause a blackout in tyler. _________________ 
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Joined: 31 Oct 2003 | Posts: 860 | Location: orlando, florida
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:55 am
everyone should post their christmas lights, now that would be hip! _________________ dear recently distressed i am sorry to inform you that ive cause so much unrest |
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Joined: 07 Dec 2003 | Posts: 197 | Location: 8/28/04
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:14 am
TheAntrider wrote: Yeah, I thought for a second about the creepy factor ... but I figured it would be at night and you'd only mainly be able to see lights. I already know where they live anyway ... beacause I have a friend who lives nearby. I'm not the type to abuse that kind of knowledge, though Yep, good points.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:59 am
that sounds like fun, boyd. I wish I could help. j/k, not really. that looks and sounds like alot of work, which I only do if you feed me. _________________ http://xanga.com/adamaustin66 |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:26 pm
godspeed, and may the force be with you boyd and weston. _________________ http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Gameboybob/ http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=gameboybob http://www.myspace.com/thegameboy |
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Joined: 01 Aug 2003 | Posts: 5453 | Location: Nagoya, Japan
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:35 pm
"is the house on fire clark?" "no aunt bethany.." - National Lampoons Xmass vacation. no falling off the roof, it's against the rules! ;) _________________ "Religions have started on lesser revelations" - investor on MarketWatch.com |
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Joined: 01 Jul 2003 | Posts: 4403 | Location: Dallas
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 2:03 pm
well...reporting in... We haven't died; I almost pooped several times after ooching out all the way on one of the...uh, whadduh you call those things... jetty's... peaks...uh...cornices....vortex... no.. um, crest of the pointy things... I'm not a good construction worker... anyway, once you ooch way out there on your butt, and it's almost straight down on both sides and you look over the front straight down and weston looks like he's 1 foot tall, you sorta swoon and almost poop. Gotta go back out there...and up there. It's pitch black... from the roof top, you can see Tyler... the wintery dead sticks from the pecan branches that surround us, the cloudy sky lit by the horizon of lights, the lack of Christmas Spirit portrayed by the boring neighbors who do as little as possible this time of year... the chilli cold seaping into your furry gorrilla torso. (wait, you can't hear cold) I need a furry gorilla torso. Cheers! Jesse Munns just brough me a mocha from Starbucks. I'm feeling the Spirit now!! I'll try to post pictures or something... if I live through it, of course.  _________________ EisleyWebGuy "The industrialists never saw the fruit of their own labor - Post Moderism, which I now proclaim as dead. Their forefathers digital revolutionists, have accelerated the final resolve by punctuating an end to our chaotic journey with a new manifesto and a new era: The Age of Meaning." (manifesto's sold separate) Welcome: Illuminists |
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