The today of me
Apr. 18th, 2012 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisTop of my list of things to do to day - and also things I am putting off by writing this entry - is the medical bill stuff. There is a disconnect somewhere and today I am going to find it. I'm going to spread out the papers over my new big table and figure this sucker out.
While I am waiting for the handy man. I suspect he will be here later this afternoon but it could be this morning. He's doing other work in the building and since I really didn't need to nail him to a specific time, I didn't.
I did discover that I measured the transom for the stained glass wrong. Yep. I had a heart attack last night until I realized that hanging it in front of the transom recess will work fine and actually look better - more important. And, will enable me to back light it if I ever decide I want to do that. Whew. Bullet dodged.
I doubt there will be any work today, so once the handy man leaves, if it's early enough I can go swim or do whatever I want.
I've been watching the first season of The Big C and it is oddly very compelling. I caught the pilots of Best Friends Forever and Don't Trust the B* in Apt. 4C. I enjoyed the former. The latter's getting one more shot. It's hard to see that regular network TV has much of a future. They just can't seem to get their shit together.
But, my new TiVo is stepping up to the plate. I've always tried to 'train' my TiVo's about what I like and have been moderately successful, but this time I have nailed it.
I started off my porting my old Season Pass list from the old TiVo to the new via the TiVo website. It's one of the worst pieces of coding I have ever seen but I finally managed to make it work and it beat the hell out of doing it by hand. Then, in the early days, I was religious about thumbs up and down for stuff I chose to record and stuff it found.
Now, in the 'recommended' file is stuff I'm actually interested in! Plus, two times now I have heard, after the fact, about a show or interview I wish I had caught, and went into that folder and there it was!!
The response time on the new TiVo is not good and there is a major bug that I can overcome only by using the other TiVo, but having four tuners and a giant hard drive really makes up for a lot. And they will likely fix the problems with updates eventually.
Ok, now I've put off my chore long enough. I'm going to get to it now and get it done.
While I am waiting for the handy man. I suspect he will be here later this afternoon but it could be this morning. He's doing other work in the building and since I really didn't need to nail him to a specific time, I didn't.
I did discover that I measured the transom for the stained glass wrong. Yep. I had a heart attack last night until I realized that hanging it in front of the transom recess will work fine and actually look better - more important. And, will enable me to back light it if I ever decide I want to do that. Whew. Bullet dodged.
I doubt there will be any work today, so once the handy man leaves, if it's early enough I can go swim or do whatever I want.
I've been watching the first season of The Big C and it is oddly very compelling. I caught the pilots of Best Friends Forever and Don't Trust the B* in Apt. 4C. I enjoyed the former. The latter's getting one more shot. It's hard to see that regular network TV has much of a future. They just can't seem to get their shit together.
But, my new TiVo is stepping up to the plate. I've always tried to 'train' my TiVo's about what I like and have been moderately successful, but this time I have nailed it.
I started off my porting my old Season Pass list from the old TiVo to the new via the TiVo website. It's one of the worst pieces of coding I have ever seen but I finally managed to make it work and it beat the hell out of doing it by hand. Then, in the early days, I was religious about thumbs up and down for stuff I chose to record and stuff it found.
Now, in the 'recommended' file is stuff I'm actually interested in! Plus, two times now I have heard, after the fact, about a show or interview I wish I had caught, and went into that folder and there it was!!
The response time on the new TiVo is not good and there is a major bug that I can overcome only by using the other TiVo, but having four tuners and a giant hard drive really makes up for a lot. And they will likely fix the problems with updates eventually.
Ok, now I've put off my chore long enough. I'm going to get to it now and get it done.