Lighting the City of Dillon

As I said before, I had some volunteering to do and I did it. Flawlessly. 3 1/2 hours of printing pictures of children with Santa actually is really fun. You literally get to see every facial expression a human can make, most notably, horror. I was a pretty easy system for me, really. I stood there and explained where to find the guys' website then handed them the photo. There was a hot dog delivery system set up, so that was delicious. It ended with a bang.. kind of. Someone in the bowling alley downstairs (Yes, imagine a shopping center with a bowling alley in the basement) threw a dart and hit a fire sprinkler.... HOW BAD IS YOUR AIM WHERE THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU?? Anyway, the basement started to flood because the sprinkler was hit and wouldn't shut off. Upstairs it stayed nice and dry, however the loud buzzing of the alarm did get obnoxious for the last 15 minutes we were there.

On the way out the door, the friendly citizens of Dillon that I worked with invited me out to have a few fine lagers. A great group of people and we ended up hanging out for the rest of the evening. The rest of the evening played out pretty fairly. Bar, dance party, smoke machine, dudes climbing to the top of a 50 foot tree trying to mount a golden Santa Claus whilst blasting metal music at 4 am, then sleep.

All in all, a great night.

Working fo' free

After a little over 2 weeks of being cooped up in my apartment (think The Shining) I decided it was time to get out and meet some of the laid back country folk. Seeing a billboard looking for help to "light the city of Dillon" I recognized my calling and punched the numbers. I really had no idea what to expect, but after a few confusing phone calls and a couple weeks later, I was standing in front of boxes of fake trees waiting to be put together. I have had some volunteer experience before that was uneventful, but this was actually pretty fun. We decorated a few rooms where children from the city will come in and create ornaments and we also decorated Santa's room where they will come in and get their pictures taken. When doing the decorating this pro-ject, I met the Mayor of Dillon Ron Holland. He was a very strange guy but very nice. I didn't take pictures of the setup, but I will when I return tomorrow.