Shortly after I got up, my friend Perry picked me up for lunch. Perry is a good friend whom I haven't seen in a few years. I met him when I was regularly performing stand-up. We hit it off and always enjoyed talking whenever we happened to meet at a show. The last time I saw him, I had scored some free tickets to see Dana Gould at the Irvine Improv. I went with both him and my friend Laura (mentioned a few weeks ago in this blog). Immediately afterwards, Perry moved away and ended up in the Raleigh-Durham area. It was a great pleasure to catch up with him, and we discussed some script ideas that we may collaborate on.
After arriving back home, it was time to put up the Christmas tree and decorate the house. Jeff and I worked on the tree while Denise and Austin worked on the house. Before the lights went on the tree, I was sitting looking at it and I had an unusual idea for "spray-on lights". Picture a small LED light with bristly hooks on either end and a small battery and circuit board. The whole thing could be made for less than a nickel each be no bigger than a junebug. Now put 500 or a 1000 of them in a cannister with a spray wand, like a garden pesticide dispenser. Use a little RF clicker to tune the cannister of lights to a specific frequency, then simply point the wand at the tree and spray tiny lights all over it. The RF clicker turns them all on and turns them off again. Instead of untangling your lights every year, replacing bad ones, and then draping them around your tree, in a few minutes you could have a tree covered with tiny lights!
We finished off the day by having dinner and seeing a comedy show at Charlie Goodnight's. We all had a good time and enjoyed a lot of personal attention from the comics.
Only one more day here in Raleigh and then I have to go home. :(
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