Well an unprecedented thing is happening today, I am writing an entry for the second day in a row. This entry will be a departure from the previous ones in that it is not dedicated to the subject of ferrets, although they do play a small part. How could they not? ;-) Since I am experiencing the new Netflix, in other words, I rent to many too fast so I am being throttled, as they call it, I have decided to watch my cool big screen movies on the new 47" HDTV. I have been going through the Jurassic Park movies. They look awesome on this TV! It's like I haven't seen them before! Anyhow, its quite enjoyable. Just as I was getting to my favorite part of The Lost World, the part where the T-Rex runs loose in San Diego, I got an IM from a friend of mine in the Phillipines, Socrates. Damn! Oh well, I Paused the movie and chatted with him for about a half hour. I was jealous of him because it was very hot and sunny where he was, and it was very dark and cold where I was. Other than that it was a good chat. We both have cameras now so it makes it that much more personal. Technology is cool!
Starlight managed to get a claw tangled in one of the sleepers, so I took her and the sleeper out to get a pair of scissors and extracate her. Sasha and Ozzie were still out for their run time, but Ozzie was sound asleep, I was distracted with keeping Starlight from wriggling, so I left the top door open. *sigh* Sasha was up and about so she wandered in to have a look-see. Lil didn't appreciate that and told her so. I had to hurry back in with Starlight and break up the resulting brawl. I took Sasha out and put Starlight down and shut the door this time. Lil managed to scrape her nose a bit so we went into the bathroom for some peroxide and some calming down. I think they get into fights for the resulting treats they get from me.
This afternoon is my guitar lesson, I got a reprieve of extra time to practice from George, who was really sick with a cold last week, and I mostly squandered it because I got a new toy, a directv reciever/DVR unit. Tivo rocks! I love being able to pause live TV! It's one drawback is it's need to make phone calls to get updates and such. I have Vonage VOIP and the modem on the tivo doesn't like it very much. It took about 3 hours worth of phone calls between directv and Vonage to get the initial call to happen, so it would complete setting up. After that it needed to download a butt load of data to update it's OS. It couldn't do it, kept failing the call during download. Fortunately there are plenty of geeks out on the web who have figured stuff like this out. What I ended up doing was getting a null modem cable for the Tivo, setting up a modem on COM1 of my computer, and now I just use that to do it through the internet. Works great! Geeks rule! Spending all my time figuring out, searching and doing this was how I squandered my guitar practice time. I did do some, but not nearly enough. D'OH! I hope to someday have some original songs I am working on posted on this site, that's what the lessons are for.
Well that will be it for this entry, I think. I should probably get back to work. I have no idea when I will do another, not to long I hope. It is pretty easy to ramble on about stuff, and who knows if anybody reads this stuff? If you do, sign my guest book on my web page! I may get around to putting some pictures up soon. Bye!
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