My Navigator & Time Stepping

This past weekend I was outside putting up Christmas lights along the roof of my garage. After all the strings were put up I plug them in to find the one of strings was only partly working. It had worked just fine until I put it up.

Well first thing to check is to see if one of the bulbs is out. Not really that fun to do hanging over the edge of the roof. I grabbed an extra bulb and climbed back on to the roof and started to check the bulbs one by one. This is a good time to mention that this string of lights are colored. I cycle of four different colors down the length of the string. I got tried of this process very quickly then I notice this. Crap now I am going to have to go back down and grab the right colored bulb once I find the bad light.

I looked at the extra bulb I had to see that it was a red one. I had the thought that I should just trust myself that I grabbed the right bulb and just check the red bulbs.

So I did.

I was right! Another 4 or 5 red bulbs down the string I switched out a red bulb for the new one and the whole string lit up! I managed to turn checking 16 to 20 bulbs into 4 or 5. I wish I would have thought to feel this out earlier.

When I got off the roof time stepping popped into my head so I sat down and quickly sent back to grab a red bulb and only check the red ones to myself.

I definately think that by listening to my navigator and receiving a little information from my my future self was at play in those events.