The Big Guy Went Christmas Shopping

and he bought a Christmas Tree Stand from Canadian Tire (some assembly required) complete with a small bag of easily lost components vital for correct operation and a 14-page booklet with step-by-step instructions, diagrams and Limited Life Time Warranty in both official languages. But garbage collection day arrived before the tree did, so the booklet was gone by the time we actually put up the tree. Things went well despite the missing instructions (there aren’t too many technical problems a Professional Engineer and a Computer Science Major can’t solve) and we only had three little white knobby thingees left over at the end.

He also bought two strings of Christmas Tree lights, chosen to replace the perfectly adequate lights we already have. The new lights are State-of-the-Art “LED Technology”, “Virtually Unbreakable”, according to claims boldly proclaimed on the boxes. We’ll see.