About 20 years ago, my wife and I had just gotten married and we rented a condo where all the windows and sliding door faced the parking area. My wife, to celebrate our first Christmas as a married couple put a white rope light on the railing on our 2 foot grilling area. It, was nice little gesture.
That night we went out to dinner and when we came home, found a letter under our door. The letter read "All holiday lights must be removed immediately from the exterior portion of the condo. Christmas or other religious lighting is against HOA policy and failure to remove can result in fines and other legal actions." My wife felt horrible and I couldn't believe it. The owner of the condo had left a copy of the HOA regulations and I found a nice little loophole. Apparently, they could regulate lights on the exterior balcony/grilling area, but not lights inside the condo. Game on.
I took my wife immediately to the big box hardware store and picked up two fake Christmas trees, about 2,000 colored lights, a light ball and whatever holiday decoration I could find. Our condo had 3 windows and the sliding glass door. I filled up each one of those windows with lights, crisscrossing, around the inside of the perimeter of the window and one had the led ball hanging in the center. The sliding door had the Christmas tree in full view completely covered in lights and ornaments. Also the sliding doors were full of Christmas lights. My electric bill must have tripled. When you came into the parking lot of the Condo complex, you saw a beacon of light full of Christmas spirit. You probably could see the condo from orbit. And, nothing could be said by the HOA snitch.
Apparently at the next board meeting, a proposed rule change was brought up to limit the amount of "holiday lighting" being shown through windows. It was quietly pointed out by another HOA board member that was an attorney that you probably could not regulate activities inside a person's dwelling.
I moved out before next year, but I never received another notice.
Some cars have weird, confusingly shaped lights on the dash, or maybe you just didn't read the manual. Either way, you don't necessarily need to know what every light means as long as you pay attention to the color.
Green: Non issue, just a notification. Things like fog lights, or ready to move on hybrids.
Amber: Non urgent issue. These are for issues that are OK to continue driving with, but should be fixed soon. Things like check engine, ABS failure, traction control failure, tire pressure, etc.
Red: Urgent issue. These are for issues that pose an immediate serious danger to you or the car. If a red light comes on, stop immediately. Things like no oil pressure, overheating, or brake failure, or charging system failure.
Charging system failure may sound like that should be an amber light, but there's a good reason it's red. It's rare for an alternator to just die all of a sudden, so that could also indicate a broken serpentine belt, which would also stop your water pump and power steering pump. It could also indicate an electrical fault that could, in serious cases, start a fire. Even if it's neither of those, when your battery dies, you are stranded. So that's why it's red.
Why YSK: If you don't know what all the lights in your car mean, just knowing what the color means can save you a lot of money and avoid dangerous situations.
Think of even Abrahamic religions which I don't follow but the example is still important. Islam has 99 names for Allah but are all those names for different gods? No. They are aspects of the same God. Judaism has different names for God too. Similarly Apollo, Set, Venus, Thor, Lakshmi, Quetzalcoatl and all the "pagan" gods are not separate gods but rather aspects of nature and the same one universal God.
Got a home with a pool, pool guy is coming tomorrow to do some things to make the pool usable and I need to decide about replacing two lights which are filled with water.
He’s charging $600 for regular, $950 for LED, $1200 for color changing LED. First off, how do those prices seem (So-Cal)? Second, I am debating between regular or color changing but am wondering if color changing is a gimmick that i will get tired of. Paying $2400 for lights seems pretty high.
And I mean things that girls are born with, so not stuff like nail polish color or underwear color.
It seems like the church just 'double dog dared' us to light the Y in rainbow colors. I don't know much about drones, but have seen the some of the drone light shows on Youtube.
Does anyone know if this would be legal? If so, how much would it cost?
This might be a good response to BYU's threatening to arrest protesters on Y mountain.
