Oh Christmas Tree.....Oh Crap!!!

Back in the day it was simple. Go cut a tree down, drag it into the house and light with non CPSC approved stuff. Or if you took they easy way out you could simply put up the Aluminum tree.

But oh no! Not now! My friends passed an artificial tree to me this weekend. With integral lights. Time is short and so I fell for it. I only needed this to get everything running:

That is wrong! At least I did not have to whip out this!

So after throwing every ornament I own on the tree it still looks sorta uh, sad. Well it does work now and to me the tree is simply an excuse to whip this stuff out:

The track will be running this first under the tree:

A forty plus year old Lionel train. Ground effects will be more impressive than the tree this year! 

Oh, side note. The new Hallmark Star Trek tree ornaments that are battery powered suck. The old school ones plugged into the lights on the tree, these have you load a kabillion watch batteries into them.