Sunday, May 21st, 2006
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It’s hot…
Posted by Thomas on 21 May 2006 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
Yeah.. The heat is on. And I don’t mean in a Axel Foley kind of way. Not the cool hot.
We’d hoped to have gotten the backyard started by now, by doing some pluming work, but it just didn’t seem to make it. So that means I’ll probably start to work on it in July, when we’re back from our trips, just when it’s good and hot. Tom + shirt off + July = ewww. There. I said it. I knew you were thinking it.
This week is the wife’s last week at school, and then she’s off the Summer. So that means I need for her to get a job at a certain coffee place. Actually, I guess that would probably be a bad idea. Anyhoo, it will be nice having her home for awhile.
Especially since we’re busy with da’ trips. It will be nice going to San Francisco, but the day we get back from that, we fly out to Denver to a reading conference for the wife for 8 days. So basically, we’re not home long.
We recently replaced our cable company DVR, the Motorola 8000 or some such, with the new TiVo version, a dual tuner model.
This version fixes the main advantage of the cable one: record two shows at once. Other than that, TiVo beats the cable companies hands-down:
- Cable Companies box crashed. It would randomly lock up, or act like it wasn’t taking button input, and then all of a sudden, it would do all the buttons at once.
- Cable Company box didn’t tape other shows it thought you might like. Sounds small, but it was cool to always have other shows to watch.
- Cable Company box you couldn’t get the shows off, to say, burn to a DVD or something. With TiVo, it hooks into your home network, and you can take shows with you to watch later, or burn to DVD. Also you can get information on TiVo, let the weather, or even listen to your music or view your photos. It’s cool.
So it’s nice to have TiVo back.