A Saga of DeLight

Or this is the story of how I installed a motion detection system way under budget while missing a few deadlines along the way. A few years back I decided I really wanted a cordless lamp for the living room in the small place we were living in Lake Oswego. True to my nature I did very little research, did a quick internet search and found a lamp that would work in the living room. I ordered DeLight on-line.

When it arrived a few days later I was pretty damn excited. I now had a lamp, I could move closer to where ever I decided to read. The box that came to our front door was smaller than anticipated. With muted enthusiasm, I opened the box and DeLight was not what I thought I had ordered, It was extremely small, and upon closer inspection, it was more of a light one would use when camping. Much to my delight, DeLight never saw the light of day in Lake Oswego. If you check the back of DeLight’s baseball card DeLight did make a token appearances at Ollalie Lake and a secluded campground on the Oregon coast, both times while sitting on a weather worn picnic bench.

DeLight lived a rather mundane life of outlandish mediocrity hanging out with the camping gear in the garage. That is until DeLight was going to make the move to another state. DeLight steadfastly survived many days inside a moving box nestled inside a well worn sleeping bag. DeLight lived joyfully with that sleeping bag for a few melancholy years.

That is until one day DeLight was suddenly grabbed from it’s (her) resting place on the musty garage shelf. Post November windstorm, the entire neighborhood seemed to be dark and DeLight had been called into action. It was what she dreamed about. It was her Raison d’être. She sat there on the kitchen table doing what she does best. What she does best is spreading light on the world.

After the power was restored, Delight was forgotten and left to sit on the work bench next to a bunch of total strangers. She sat there on the workbench sitting next to a paintbrush and a yellow cordless drill. DeLight found much delight in conversing with the the drill. It was frustrating at times.

And by some odd quirk in the cosmos DeLight is now scaling Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Apparently, DeLight has a setting that detects motion. We found this much to our surprise, after leaving the dogs out at night. DeLight knew we are there. I walked into the dark garage and DeLight lights up like a lightning bug on a July Pennsylvania evening, It took awhile to realize this was actually happening. DeLight had solved a problem we only remotely know we had.

And she now does her job guiding us through the garage by her glowing presence.