Well I Feel Like An Idiot... Again

It's been over a year, but I feel like an idiot again.

I got home last night (Sunday) from a weekend trip to see my friends Kyle and Shari get married in Nashville. Our travel day started at 7:30am, and we arrived in Waco at 10:15pm. Maybe that's what impaired my judgment. As I walked in the front door, I was followed quickly by a dragonfly. I don't know if you've ever noticed, but dragonflies are really loud. I tried to shoo the thing back out the door, but that dragonfly just wouldn't cooperate. I warned him that if he didn't comply, I would have to take drastic measures. When he refused to follow direction, I grabbed my my fly-swatter that doubles as a sandal. This bug must have studied under Hezbollah because he kept flying around things that I didn't want to sacrifice in order to take him out (like my TV, one of my grandmother's paintings, my wall sconce, etc.). He eventually flew into the frosted glass cone of the wall sconce, and I got the idea to lay siege to him until he submitted. I cut off his only escape route by grabbing a DVD case and placed it on top of the sconce.



I quickly turned off the light because I didn't want to melt the DVD and potentially cause a fire.

Today, I got home from work and decided to watch some TV. I totally forgot about the DVD case on top of the light, so I flipped the switch to illuminate the room and enjoyed about 2 hours of TV without a problem.

Then I started to smell something. It smelled like burning plastic, but I didn't know where it was coming from. Then I saw it... the DVD case on the rather warm light fixture. I removed the case to see what was amiss. To my horror, this is what I saw:



Then, I noticed what the case held. Oh, no! Not.... Rock Band!?! Arguably my favorite game on my Xbox 360. I opened the case, hoping to find that the disc was unharmed, and...



...ruined. Totally ruined. And now I'm out $60 because I can't go without my Rock Band. I am such an idiot. It's just too bad that this moment of stupidity is so much more expensive than my last one. [Sigh/groan!]