In-lightened experience

It's unusual that I blog during the day, but I just had to share this with everyone. Last night I was putting out the garbage and noticed, for what seemed to be the 100th time, that the motion sensor on the floodlights in front of my home were not working properly. So armed with much patience and my trusty tuque and parka I decided to once and for all adjust the motion sensor. Now the particular model I have has two main settings, one to set the duration of how long the lights stay on and the other controls the sensitivity of the motion detector. Climbing up on a small foot stool I set out to adjust the duration to a minumum so I wouldn't have to stand in the middle of the driveway an interminably long time waiting for the lights to go out before moving again to see if the motion detector would pick up my movements and turn on the lights. I set the sensitivity to its lowest setting and proceeded to walk out to the middle of the driveway. Sure enough the lights didn't come on, so I started back to re-adjust the sensitivity when all of a sudden the lights came on. So I stopped moving and waited for the lights to turn off, which only took about 5 seconds and then proceeded once again to moving, expecting the lights to come on as they had done just just 5 seconds previously. Alas, they did not and I was left there in the dark. I approached the motion detector, turned up the sensitivity and began the whole process again, move, stop, wait, move, stop, wait. By now the neighbors were probably wondering why Landi was doing the funky chicken in his driveway, that or they probably thought that I had finally gone full tilt and they proceeded to slowly back away from their window making sure I would not see them. Truth be known, I didn't care, but it did occur to me how silly I must have looked, walking all over my driveway flailing my arms about trying to get this supposed "magic-eye" to "see" me! It made me chuckle to myself as I finally got the motion detector to succumb to my wishes. Then another thought occured to me, yes I've been having many of these and I'm going to go see someone about them as soon as possible. All these adjustments were for me and my 6 foot 210 lb frame walking about with arms flailing, but would it "see" my wife who has a much smaller frame than I, or worst would it see the diminutive figure of my daughter as she steps out from the front porch and towards the driveway. So again, there I was walking around in my driveway, this time trying to present the same height profile of my wife and my 3 year old daughter. I'm sure the neighbors were still chuckling to themselves at the breakfast table this morning.