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Holidays: Nerd tips for Christmas decorating
Sun, 07 Dec 2008

We were decorating the house today for the Christmas season; the baby was out with grandma so we diug out the tree and ornaments, the garlands and lights, the figures and wreaths. We're not Chevy Chase'ing it but someday my frienbds.. some day!

When it came to running garlands up the stairway we decided not to wrap them around the the banister as we've done in the past - it makes the total length shorter, and the wiring in the thing tends to scratch up he handrail a touch. So what to use? String would be too slippery and we didn't have any dark colours around to stealth it in there. Being a good little nerd and eletrical junkie I had a good assortment of nylon cable ties around, including some black ones of 12" length. I have to say, they were perfect -- fast to apply, good and strong grip with no slippage, and easy to trip to the appropriate length to avoid nasty bits sticking out. And being black, they hide right in there against our dark coloured banisters. Perfect! (You can of course use the standard dirty-white nylon colour, white, black, and even brown ties.)

So there you go.. being a geek does have some use!

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