I know it doesn’t make any sense, but being up on a ladder really emboldens me.

The past two weeks, with Christmas coming at us like a freight train, I doubt that I am the only one who has spent a couple minutes—or in the case of the past weekend, a couple days—hanging from the top of a ladder.

It is a lot like calling the Digger’s Hotline: you know you need to be careful, but sometimes you feel jus…