Elves and Plastic

We rented the movie Elf this weekend. What a great movie. If you haven’t seen it then do so now. The snowball fight scene is the best.

My other excitement for the weekend had to do with working on the house. We live in an older house and the windows definitely are showing their age. So, I spent an afternoon covering some of the windows with plastic. When I was shopping for the plastic I got pretty excited about the fact that it now came with a little tape dispenser. That’s right, I got excited over plastic window covers with a tape dispenser. But hey, that crazy little roll of double sided tape can be a pain to work with and any tool that makes it easier is just peachy in my book.

Anyway, putting the plastic up wasn’t too exciting or difficult. Oh, and the tape dispenser that came with is reusable, so I guess I’ll just store that thing away for next year incase I pick up a box without one.

I also figured out a little trick. The hair dryer just wasn’t getting hot enough to tighten things as quickly as I liked. So, I took a rag and covered about half of the air intake on the back of the dryer. By doing this it allowed the air to remain hotter coming out of the gun. Now for a word of caution. This trick makes the air flow considerably hotter, so I can’t imagine it’s good for the hair dryer to do this for a very long period of time or to completely cover the intake. Especially if it’s your wife’s hair dryer.