|
Post by Hunny on Apr 15, 2012 16:15:32 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 15, 2012 16:48:58 GMT
Just a little place to share my thoughts. Feel free to copy the idea if you want And you of course can comment here.
This week I came into a little money I had been waiting on. I went shopping for seven hours! Bought a dining room set, a television and some office furniture. I've got some left to spend, but I'm just not that good at blowing available money on whims. (If I was, I would surely have been shoe shopping by now).
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 16, 2012 21:10:21 GMT
I'm trying to buy a TV.
I say "trying" because it seems the manufacturers of things have added a whole new layer of entirely unnecessary complexities to how dvd players and TV's work. Their aim, it seems, is to make me have to re-buy all the stuff I already have (and am quite happy with) with a newer, allegedly improved format. But it isn't improved. It's just ass hard to make work without a science degree, layered with extraneous things you can't figure out why anyone would use (skype, 3D glasses, internet on your television, etc), all just to be able to charge you all over again for what you already bought, and to make SURE none of it is backwards compatible, so you can't get out of doing it.
And this is not to mention how they've removed the tuner from the DVR so you have to buy it separately (a way of doubling the price of it). This tactic, being successfully schlepped onto us, is being repeated everywhere. (I half expect the next time i buy a car, to have the salesman ask me if I'd like to buy a steering wheel "to go with it".)
Anyway, today was aggravating. I guess I'll go watch a movie on my old TV! (I'm going to watch it the old-fashioned way: insert disc / press play / watch..
|
|
|
Post by sadie1263 on Apr 17, 2012 3:37:59 GMT
Have a DVR in my bedroom.......not sure where hubby took the VCR.....miss it....would like a watch a movie the old fashioned way also.........
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 17, 2012 9:39:15 GMT
We're having a bit of a heat wave, in the Northeast. It's mid-April and summer has started already. I don't know whether to be pleased or worried. But I am plugging in the air conditioner.
|
|
|
Post by trubble on Apr 17, 2012 11:23:32 GMT
Take it where you can get it!
What with all those tornadoes blowing around elsewhere....I'm glad to live in a moderate ''middle-of-the-road'' zone. We have typical erratic April weather at the moment, all the weather groups in one day, but we had thunder, lightning and a hailstorm so hard that it turned the ground white a couple of mornings ago, and a mini-tornado just down the road in Bray Co. Wicklow - I've never heard of a tornado in Bray before, it usually just does two weather types: ''raining'' and ''not raining''.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree totally with the 'new technology' post -- it's a scam!
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 17, 2012 11:36:03 GMT
Have a DVR in my bedroom.......not sure where hubby took the VCR.....miss it....would like a watch a movie the old fashioned way also......... The man told me the reason my DVD Player wont play is that it doesn't come with "the codecs" installed. he said "all" I have to do is put a chicken in a bag, wave it over my head and recite the alphabet backwards while standing on one leg, and...well, it seemed he was saying approximately that! (Really he said i needed to go online with the dvd player itself (it'll do that?) and use my remote to type in a google search for "xvid", and then download version 2.1.1, which is "firmware", and, oh yea, the chicken!! I asked him doesn't it seem incredulous for a company to make it so hard, when the codecs were always pre-installed before? Why change to a nightmare procedure we have to swim through? He assured me that "old people" always react that way to new things, but "new is better". Okay, now I have to go back to fathoming some algebraic equations (I'm trying to make toast!)
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 19, 2012 12:22:45 GMT
I like music. A lot of my posts here may include some.
I play guitar and sing, and write songs. 70's rock, funk, blues - that's the good stuff. Favorite artists: Grand Funk Railroad, Neil Young
I liked the Pretenders because Chrissie doesn't "sing like a girl". The feminist in me appreciates that. Music ought to be about music, not one's gender schema. ..And she's got a great vibrato which I find tasty. A hallmark of a talented music artist is they tend to have a little "flourish" or some "tell" like that which they always seem to throw in. They can't help it, they're musical. For John Lennon it was a particular 4-note phrase he tended to stick on the end of any lead he played. For Chrissie, it was the vibrato (the waver in her voice).
Speaking of feminists and music, sometime I'll tell you about my mom. She played lead in a Big Band, back when women weren't thought of as capable of doing "men's things", such as being a musician (Can anyone say "WTF"?)
Let's go back to Ohio...
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 21, 2012 22:23:01 GMT
I'm such a bad photographer, I probably shouldn't show you these, but here is some of what I bought on my shopping spree...new desk, leather chair and second computer: my new TV (and that's Captain Meow using it for something to stand on): the empty spot where my new dining room table will go when it gets delivered finally:
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 22, 2012 10:56:11 GMT
As I've said, one needs to get a science degree to buy a tv/dvr now. In my case, I had extra problem(s) to deal with. I have 20 years of movies, documentaries, and shows-collecting all burned as data.
As opposed to burning a movie normally, a data DVD can be burned quickly, and 5 movies will fit on one disc, BUT only 20% of the available dvd players will play a data disc. I always relied on Philips, Samsung or Panasonic as the brands i could use for a player. NOW however -because of America's anti-piracy crusading- only Panasonic is left, and even that, only briefly.
This left me with two pain-in-the-neck tasks recently: 1 - Buy no less than 5 dvd players, finding one at a time that they will not work any more, and that any older deck I may find won't hook up to a flat screen TV. 2 - Therefore prepare for 'plan B' which is to use VLC (my computer) as my dvd player. I bought a long HDMI cable to send the audio/video signal, from my PC to my new television. The picture arrived nicely. The sound will not work (yet). (grrr)
So I'm saying, yes I had a ball spending three grand on stuff recently, but it was a lot of aggravating hard work. And even after all that, it still isn't even over! It took me many hours to build the furniture I bought (yea, I'm not wealthy, what i got looks great but it comes in a box, and you assemble it at home.) It took hours to go buy the stuff, it took repeated trips to get "accessories" I kept finding a modern TV/DVR requires. It took patience (and working in unnatural positions) to wire everything. Time on the phone with techs, etc etc etc
In conclusion, perhaps i should learn that there are other things one can "watch". Sunsets come to mind. And the wonderful visage of a man doing all this for me!
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 23, 2012 13:11:43 GMT
I just spoke with my friend in Finland I have been missing. It made me feel quite happy, I'm very fond of the friends I made there.
There are thousands of forums online, all with 6 members (if not none), but I have come to value such places very highly, because you meet people, from across the globe, and with different perspectives; and sometimes you make a friend you actually come to love as such.
I've had marvelous times at forums, doing magazines, and creative threads to have some fun and laughter.
My favorite site was a women's game/forum, where I made a few girlfriends I still treasure. I don't know if I'll ever have such a magic time again, or feel so close to some people on the internet, but I came here to see what might be here. The serious discussions are ok, not usually my thing, but interesting, but I always worry I'll alienate people with my strong opinions. So I started a little blog here because it seems safer and familiar to me. lol
I'll start a game thread or two soon, hoping it may be some fun for people here. But we'll have to see if there is interest.
I gotta' go have a day now. Good morning folks! Be happy!
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 25, 2012 17:58:33 GMT
Ferbles is closed (the site I busted my ass building). I just didn't have the money to advertise for members, so it never grew. That's ok. I've got other fish to fry.
I'm going to post a game called "Bullshit!" here (in the games forum). I hope that word's alright to say, as that is what it's about.
I'm also posting two or three other new games here.
My hope is it won't come across as all "who the hell is she? to do so, and maybe there'll be some daily posting there.
Also I'd still challenge you to start your own little blog (or "wall") here, like this, and be brave enough to let it all hang out, so we'll be in on your life a bit. At least I've always valued that. I like having a few friends sharing what they're up to, inviting comments, so we can go visit each other. That's the idea.
Of course this stuff may fly, or it may die, but I'll take the chance. I'm pretty creative, and actually unhappy when I'm not doing something with that energy, so you may just see an occasional off-the-wall thread appear.
( I thrive on humor. I'm rarely serious, so yea, "off the wall"...)
When I am serious, I tend to do things like for example write about other country's holidays. I think it's fun -and friendly- to find out what other members value in their lives.
And since the US is "another country" to those who don't live here, I've written of American holidays too. (though don't expect much reverence from me. I tend to dig for the truth, and I'm neither religious nor a fascistic-type patriot, so I guess some of those pieces could spark up a conversation.
Speaking of sparking up! No no, I joke, I don't do that! (Sorry, I can only stay serious for just so long, then it's all...
Horse walks into a bar. Ouch!
No?? Okay.. Horse goes into a bar and the bartender says "Why the long face?" (ba dump bump pssssssh
Okay, I'll stop it now.
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on Apr 28, 2012 11:30:06 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on May 4, 2012 9:55:00 GMT
I bought a slow cooker and a pressure cooker, neither of which I've had, so I'm expecting to like these and eat a little better. So far I can't see a lot of difference between using the slow cooker, and just using a covered pot on very low heat, but I rather like the idea of preparing a meal the night before and having it cook all day as I work. The pressure cooker I'm told will get me the same results (amazingly tender meat etc) but quickly, if i want to cook "last minute". I'm thinking it will be great to do vegetables in. I so don't like having steaming pots of water going until the wallpaper droops, that I haven't been making them as much as I would; and the pressure cooker I'm assured though will cook vegetables in a few minutes without said steam curling all the papers in the room!
Oh and beans...I'm told i should make my own beans in it, that's one of the things it's good for. mm, well how many beans am I supposed to eat then? I mean i know they're good for my heart and all but.. beans?? Why do i want to make my own beans?
Well, I guess I'll find out, as I have time to fill now and i intend to spend some of it putting some energy into cooking. I used to be quite good at it (until i got lazy)(no, make that busy with my computer addiction). I was feeding five, so it mattered. Now it's just me and Captain Meow here and he doesn't like anything I cook.
Really, I've tried it all. I gave him peanut butter sandwiches, toast, cereal, everything I make! and he wouldn't eat any of it. Go figure!
...If anyone has any good recipes they want to share, that'd be cool.
[/b]
|
|
|
Post by Hunny on May 9, 2012 14:28:04 GMT
News From The Street (lol) [/color] Well, they're done replacing the water and sewer pipes under my road, but it is yet to be re-surfaced, and at this point suddenly there is every kind of department wanting to have a look at it. Public works, the cops, the utilities...but wait the cops? Yes. In fact there is an unmarked out there watching my building even now. As best I could, I've hidden the di... only kidding!! Actually we had a sex offender saying he lived in my building and to some extent he was apparently, but not legally enough, because I had to let seven state police into the hall staircase so they could go up to the fifth floor and get him. I feel sorry for him. I mean, whatever he's done, he's already payed with jail time. Now this registering thing he has to do will keep him from being able to get a job or an apartment for the rest of his life. (Probably why he had to fudge where he lives). Anyway, it's a life sentence when we make someone register, and most of the 700,000 + American citizens who do aren't serial rapists at all, they're more like ...peed on a building drunk, had marital troubles, got a hooker, parked in the wrong place. It doesn't seem right to impose a life sentence for things like that.
This man wasn't level 3 (those are the pedophiles and real rapists), he was a minor offender, so what ever happened to "everyone deserves a second chance"? It used to be a principle in this country. Now we're all mean-hearted, vilifying people we actually know nothing about, saying "he deserves it", when they show this stuff on the TV. *shakes head*
Well, that's the news from "the street".
-33-
Hunny
[/center]
|
|