Today's coloring color is pink

[susandennis]

The gym is scheduled to open at 5 am. This morning there were about 25 of us waiting outside at 5:15 when the first gym employee sauntered up. She had stopped to get her Starbucks so didn't have time to get there by 5. Also, she didn't have a key. And, didn't really give a shit.

I do not pay for the gym directly out of my pocket. It's included in my health insurance (old people benefit) which is the only reason I do not raise holy hell at that place every single day. It's amazing to me that all those young people paying $60 a month, every single month, put up with their crap.

But the pool was an acceptable temperature and did not look chemically unbalanced and for most of the hour I was in there was my pool alone. Once my face gets in the water, I really find it hard to worry about the idiots who mismanage that place and today was no exception. It was a lovely swim.

Today is the last hot day. It will likely get up to 80 degrees but looking at the 10 day forecast, that will not be happening again. thankyoujesus.

Today looks to be a little of this and a little of that. The Homeowners Association President sent out the security consultant's report (to the committee people) and like any true consultant, we got 25 pages of boilerplate bullshit and 5 pages of meat. Sadly, this guy did not do any meat consolidation so we have to wade through is bullshit to find out want we want to know. I'm pretty sure that none of the other committee members will bother to do more than just glance over it. So I figure it's the least I can do. I'm looking for my highlighter now...

Also tonight is the Homeowners Association meeting. The ballgame starts at 5 and the meeting at 6. TiVo, get ready.

Last night TiVo had a little seizure. It lost the network. In the early days of TiVo (I got my first one in 2000), TiVo problems were a daily headache. It literally called into HQ every day via a home telephone line. And it was excruciating slow. Never - early days or now - has it ever had any kind of decent error code translation and/or good troubleshooting. But, gradually over the past 17 years, things have gotten faster and better. Years of coaxing, yelling, screaming, trial and error have taught me a few things and I used them last night and got her up and connected and running fine last night. These days, it's very rare to have issues and having one kind of really just serves to remind me to appreciate my wonderful TiVo.

I do want to get a flu shot this week. I think maybe I'll add that to the list of errands I can do when the house cleaner comes on Wednesday.

Now I think I'll get off my ass and go clean up the breakfast dishes and get this day going.

Comments

[lostincandyrain.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking that it's the last hot day here, but then the weather predictions keep changing, and there keep being more of them coming up... It's crazy!

[susandennis]

What's crazy is how many times a day I look at the 10 day forecast in hopes of seeing something rational... rain or clouds or something.

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the flu shot suggestion when the house cleaner comes. I was wondering where I could go.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the TiVo and its gradual improvements (some of which aren't really), there was an "Easter egg" I learned about years ago, which later stopped working (and I can't remember how it worked anyway): It was a way to get rid of the "timeline" at the bottom that appears when you hit Pause. I want it so that when I pause during the closing credits I can actually read the whole screen. Do you happen to know if there's still (or again) a way to do that?

[susandennis]

This what you are looking for?

To make the Status Bar and Pause Ad disappear automatically during Pause and Fast-Forward or Rewind:

1. On your TiVo remote, press "Live TV"
2. Wait for the Status Bar and Channel Banner to disappear (or press Clear)
3. Press Pause
4. Press Down if a gold-star Pause Ad appears
5. Enter the code:

Select-Play-Select-Pause-Select

If the code was entered correctly, the Status Bar and gold-star Pause Ads will disappear automatically whenever you Pause or Fast-Forward or Rewind from now on, or until you re-enter the code to toggle this behavior back off, or if the TiVo reboots.

If the TiVo has recently rebooted you may need to first press Right during Live TV to show the Channel Banner and enter the code before the banner disappears in 4 seconds.

This undocumented code is very helpful when fast-forwarding through news programs with text at the bottom that would otherwise be obscured.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=122090

Found here: https://www.tivocommunity.com/community/index.php?threads/remove-play-bar-when-pausing.501934/

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's it. Thanks. (And thanks for doing my homework for me -- I could surely have found that myself if I were not terminally lazy.)

Of course there are times when I want the status bar, like when some CBS Sunday night show has been pushed back by football.

[susandennis]

Yes, you could have found it yourself BUT THEN I would not have been reminded of it and so would still be pissed at missing content on the screen because of that stupid bar.

So... thanks!