Madison is still a guppy
No surprise there — we knew she wasn’t ready to be whatever comes next (tadpole?) but Noah, who was jealous of the end-of-class Gushers given by the teacher, was trying to make her think she flunked. This from the formerly unschooled kid. See, I told you that virtual school was ruining him!
Speaking of ruining him — or rather his LIFE — we decided to give up cable FINALLY. I’ve felt guilty the whole time we had it but I’d be lying to say I’m not going to miss it. But so much of what we watch is available on the computer and we just figured out how to hook Brett’s laptop up to the television. Besides which we’re all watching too much anyway. When we broke it to Noah he began to gnash his teeth and tear his hair, poor dear. Life is hard in the big city.
Today I’m going to work on theming our new biz site after I get my regular work done. Hoping to debut it soon but we’re taking it slow and this time I’m walking Brett through some of the things so he won’t feel so left out and frustrated. We’re talking about what other aspects of the biz he’d like to take on besides the paperwork. Working with him is a challenge, frankly, because our communication styles are pretty different. Like he’s detail oriented and I’m “get-the-big-idea-and-move-on” oriented. And he’s a worrier and I don’t like to focus on worries because they sometimes catch me with their evil little purple claws and keep me stagnant. (Caution is one thing — chronic worry is another.) Plus I’m generally more optimistic, which would surprise everyone who knew me when I was a gloomy teen but there you go. Sometimes people change.
Oh and changing the subject entirely — since upgrading to Firefox 3, I’ve lost all my scroll bars. Very frustrating. I can still scroll but I can’t see the scroll bar. Firefox 3, to me, is like Wordpress 2.5 — perhaps released too soon seeing as how bug-filled it is. (I hear the beta of Wordpress 2.6 is out. I’m salivating for it because I haven’t learned my lesson about wordpress upgrades yet.)
What are you going to do with your Tivo box? Are you getting rid of it? Please talk to me first, if you are.
We’re keeping it for now. Brett says it works with regular tv although I have no idea whether or not this is true.
Oh and also because we can download amazon movies to it w/unbox.
Tivo works fine no matter what the signal comes from, you just have to tell it so it knows the channel lineup. Now tell me how to hook a laptop to the TV! Please!
You just need an adapter — like the kind that hooks a laptop up to a projector? And then you get one of those cords — the yellow/red/white ones — that you use for your DVD player, game system, what-have-you and that connects into the adapter. You’ll only use the yellow one (that’s the screen) and then the white one can sorta go into your computer headphone jack for speakers. (It doesn’t quite fit on ours but it works.)
We were going to get rid of cable/tv too, except I love the Olympics! So, we’ll revisit after they’re over.
My goal is to give up cable too! Congratulations to you for actually doing it.