Luke Odom

My father wrote this song. It is a parody of  ”Granda Got Run Over by a Reindeer” and “Little Old Lady from Pasadena.” Merry Christmas and enjoy.

RudolfGotRunOverbymyGrandma

Lyrics copyright 2009 Anthony Odom

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season. Here are a couple videos of Christmas music I like. Enjoy.

So, Joy and I lived in a very poorly lit apartment for 2 years. No matter how many lamps you put out it was still dark. When we arrived at our new apartment in California we were distressed to find out that neither the living room or the bedroom had ceiling lights. A couple days ago, while walking through The Home Depot, we spotted a display of street lights. (All pics taken from my iphone)

After analyzing the wiring, mount, etc., I decided I could “refit” an outdoor street lamp into an indoor street lamp. I assembled the lamp per the instructions up to the point of mounting it. I have a ton of old computer power cables laying around so I grabbed one and cut it open in order to splice it to the power of the lamp. Instead of the black, white, and green I was expecting, I got brown, blue, and green/yellow. I researched it and realized that those were European wiring standards (I have no idea where I got a European cord.) I wired brown to black, blue to white, and the bare cable to the green/yellow.

These were designed to be sunken into concrete, not be free standing so I had to make a base for it. I got a piece of scrap lumper from The Home Depot and made the base depicted below. Holes are for the bolts. Power cable goes through center hole and out the back. (Diagram made using Dia, a free diagraming program.)

While at Lowe’s I also bought I hand saw

Below is the finished top piece.

It has scared Joy’s grey cat. He is running and hiding.

We now have plenty of light in our living room.

A close-up of the base.

As you can tell, it ain’t pretty. I am leaving the decorating and hiding of the base to Joy

The last couple days I have had some interesting text messages and calls. These are all from the same cell phone number.

April 26, 2008

4:49 p.m.  Call: They hang up when I answer

5:55 p.m. Text message: Hey

7:56 p.m. Call: They hang up when I answer

8:02 p.m. Hi this is *******, ALLCAP’s DAUGHTER!!

8:18 p.m. ALL i have to say is you BETTER LEAVE her ALONE!

9:12 p.m. DO YOU GOT IT’? you better stay away

Text messages end. I assume they have realized their mistake. I didn’t respond because I assumed it was a joke/prank/junk message or something trying to get me to respond to make sure my number was valid. I had no idea whose number it was so I just left it alone . . . until today.

April 27

2:19 p.m. Text: Hey who is this??

I was tired of getting these texts so I decided to have a little fun and tell the truth.

2:21 Text from me: None of your business

2:22 p.m.  Text: Well it is seein that you have been textin my mama

I decided to be obstinant

2:24 Text from me: I will text who i want 2 text

2:27 Text: Well all I have to say is you better stay away from her

Not wanting to have some anonymous person tell me who to hang around with I respond:

2:29 Text from me: I will hang around wherever I want to hang around

2:30 Text: Oka well you wont be when my daddy other known as her husband gets done with you.

As this point I am fearing for the life of whoever is messing with XXXXXX. They are about to get beat up with no warning at all So, I respond:

2:54 Text from me: I think you have me confused with someone else. I have no idea who XXXXXXX is.

3:10 Text: Oka i’m tellin my daddy and then i’m telling my mama i kno and she will get rid of you

3:15 Text from me: You really have me confused with someone else.

3:20 Text: That is a lie!!

5:35 Text: I kno that its you i’m not an idiot unlike you

7:13 Text: Just incase you didn’t understand me earlier if you ever text my mama again you will regret it big time

Well I was going to leave it alone but I have been called a liar, an idiot, threatened, and it appears that ******* is not going to believe I am not texting her mother. Since she is threatening me, I might as well figure out how my destruction will play out.

7:22 p.m. Text from me: How so?

7:24 p.m. Somehow she has a family with a 12 year old daughter That’s me and a 14 year old son and a husband

Soooo, I’ve been tormenting a 12-year-old. I almost feel bad. I will once again try to convince her she is very comfused.

7:29 p.m. Text from me: I promise u i have no idea who your mother is. U have me confused with someone else.

Finally, she believes me.

7:37 p.m. Text: Well then why have you been agreeing with me the whole time??

9:02 p.m. Text from me: Actually, I haven’t agreed with anything you have said

9:05 p.m. Text: Well why didn’t you stop be at the begging??

I have decided to be completely honest with the poor gal

9:09 p.m. Text from me: I honestly thought it was a prank at first

9:10 p.m. Text: Sure you did

Considering how long it took me to convince her I was not after he mother I have decided to just drop it.  I have had a good day of amusemnt. The two morals of the story are don’t cheat on your husband and don’t let your 12-year-old have a phone.

My name is Luke Odom (as if you didn’t know from the URL). I have an undergraduate degree in Information Systems and I am working on my graduate. This blog is my random thoughts on pretty much anything but probably centering on IT. Well, that’s all for now . . . until next time.