Misc.

Figures

Timing is everything! As I made my way downstairs this morning KRP’s first words were: the TV took a dump.

Ok? Ugh, what and morning to you too.

Seriously, the old Hitachi 46″ is no more.  It gave us years of viewing and now – well – it is what it is.  Wanna bring down the TV Anthony gave me and use it and I can go back to my 19″? I await anxiously for the answer – and a swear I kept a low profile and held my tongue -and YES here it comes – NO I will call my cousin and see what kind of deal he can get me on a new one.

Can you say Yippee! The answer I wanted to hear. I wuv my new TV and would be fibbing if I told you I really wanted to give it up. So, I got the little 19″ set up downstairs for now – all KRP does with TV most of the time is use it for background noise – well . … the little guy does do that LOL.  I must admit the 19″ on the right there does look kind of dwarfed by the old set.

Just so you know I did figure out that the noise is a relay that sends the power to the other components so I guess on of those is the culprit.  OH wells

Plus-Minus-Equals

My small little personal world is starting to feel normal again – whatever normal is. My territory is mine all mine again LOL.

It was so wonderful to have our Godson Anthony home here in the states. Lots of giggles and fun. I do worry about him going over to Kosovo but it is the job he wanted because it got him closer to Germany – one of the countries he has not visited yet and really wishes to do so. He is a traveler that is for sure.

To many humans in this small condo made for an interesting if not stressful few weeks. Everytime I turned around there was someone somewhere – generally in my way. I felt like the Outer Limits intro – we control the verticle, we control the horizontal . …


With the rainy and cold weather I have not ridden my bike for a few weeks but have been using the stationary bike in PE. The week with no class made me aware of how just the having somewhere to go everyday and peeps to converse with helps.

The most exciting (well to me anyways) thing that occurred was the gift that Anthony left for me.

I managed to get it onto my Grandmother’s old trunk and hooked up. I have a whole bunch of catching up to do on what a television does now days – other than be – a television. My old school AMP does not have any HDMI ports so it took my poor brain a bit to figure out how to get the xbox and surround sound all to play nice. Oh yeah KRP bought me a Blue Ray DVD player to go along with the new TV – sweet! I watched 2012 last night.  The welcome screen kept asking me to hook up the dvd to the computer so I could listen to the radio and oh who knows what else.

So I make sure the power adapter worked etc and then I hit the WALL. Since the TV was purchase in Qatar I knew about the power plug and I checked the specs out. I missed the big one – the wall – the freaking plugin for the antenna – err umm this looks odd LOL. So, the television did everything but talk to me – except being able to Auh be a television!

KRP picked up an adapter that I found RadioShack carried so yeah I am all excited – hook up the antenna and no joy. I tried everything. Ever try to read a manual written in some sort of Arabic I think. Online Google again I started to notice that all the info that discussed digital TV mentioned the HDMI hookups. But no info really on the antenna plug. Then I started thinking that maybe just maybe the antenna input only did analog and the HDMI plugs the digital? So I got out the box we got that is for converting the digital  so that analog TV’s could still work and low and behold I can now watch TV. I am going to break down and run a coaxial cable from downstairs with a splitter and get another cable box for upstairs.

Now what to do about way too many remotes!

Thinking of BobRobert and Steve

Be back soon till then thinking of Steve and BobRobert. Things in the photo if you view larger:

I wore orange – I dislike wearing orange big time.
KRP let me post her photo here
We walked for BobRobert Sunday
Sorry the photo is so bad but that is cell phones for yah.


Long story short: Lots going on here, Godson arrived from Qatar Via Thailand and is heading out to Kosovo. House full of peeps and crazy. Xbox of Godson using way to much bandwidth and my internet access has been limited because of all the crazy stuff going on and bandwidth.

Ears still Attached

Just updating what is what around these here parts. Our Godson came in from Thailand and has been busy purchasing a car, filing taxes, and taking care of business. He has applied for several jobs overseas and we are waiting to see which one he gets if any?

PE class again today yeah something productive health again. Gosh the cost per unit is going up from 28 to 40 bucks and they are making all sorts of cuts.  As usual, many of them land on the backs of oh yeah you know this is coming the adaptive PE and special programs for yah the handicapped – o surprise – well more like the DUH factor anymore in this state.

Apparently I am not a priority either because when I tried to register with the disabled services on campus and register I encountered numerous problems. First when I went to the office for those services the lady there was clueless and provided no info and had no idea why I would be considered handicapped or how I would go about registering with their services. Second, the web site would not accept my application for enrollment when I tried to list myself as a returning student nor would it let me enter my chosen degree I was working toward. So I ended up not considered by the state of Calif as a priority student because of all of the above.  So her we go again LOL. At least now it recognizes me as a returnee student but I had to once again say I had no goal. Big mistake!

My PE teacher is going to find out WTF and the 411 to help me get on the right track or maybe I should say get those who are suppose to know off their arses maybe? Seems, the State will provide more funds etc – oh heck I dunno but if I am registered with the disabled peeps and am working on a degree it works out better for all of us.

The weather has been nothing but cold, windy, and rainy. Cold I can do but the wind and rain have put the car-bosh on bike riding and coffee shop sitting – seems others do not find the cold as nice as I do.  I tried watching the news a bit ago but honesty I have no interest in Tiger Woods and what is going on with M. Jackson doctor. Enough already – the earthquake would be interesting … all fluff and nothing of interest for me anyways.

So hooked up the xbox upstairs so Catfish and I can shoot all the bad guys Gears of War 2 and maybe be Big Daddy later as Steven lent me the games for awhile. The big screen downstairs is so old that the text is hard to read etc and I have cleaned so many times I am thinking it does not have one more in it LOL hey it is maybe 8-9 years old, a projection screen – albeit a good one by back then standards – but the little  19 inch guy upstairs is way faster especially in game mode.  Besides I do not have to stop playing when everyone gets home and wants to plop in front of the boob tube.

So rain rain go away until then xbox, reading, exercising, and generally killing time. Oh yeah got a foam sword and ambushed Dorothy on the way into class it was great.   We do these sword fight mock type games once in while – a fun way to work on balance issues and I drew Dorothy as my partner last time- Good grief by the time she got her goggle and ear protection on the class was over. Oblivious to this fact she turned around and whacked me so hard it knocked off my goggles etc and knocked sideways and down I went LOL. Payback!!!  Bra HAHAHHAHA  She loved her sword and we all had some fun over it. My bunny ears are still attached because I was the faster rabbit ha ha

Sunday I went to my folks and afterward we went over to our friends and ate and ate and ate – their Grandkids are there so we had a fun time with the Easter stuff and dang they got solid chocolate bunnies! My mom – oh the Easter Bunny – when I was growing up only got us hollow ones. What’s with that?

LOL