Weekend 'n' stuff
Jan. 14th, 2007 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sillygoosegirlI am now the proud owner of the world's cutest coffee maker. It's got a little tiny 4 cup pitcher and fits conveniently in the dead space between the fridge and the dish drainer. Also, it has a timer mode, so I can set it up to start making my coffee before I get up in the morning... so I will have fresh hot coffee waiting for me when I get up in the morning! Now how's that for an incentive to actually get up when the alarm goes off? So I suppose it's not quite as good as having Dad downstairs making coffee in the morning when I get up, but it's certainly got some other advantages... like not requiring me to live with my parents. If I'd known such a cool device could be purchased for only $19.99, I would have gotten one of them years ago!
This morning, Josh and I rearranged our A/V stuff. We moved the stereo stack over to the far side of the room (where the speakers are and where the projector projects to, across from the couch). This involved unplugging everything, and then replugging everything, and more. Because before we were kind of lazy putting it together... we weren't planning to use remote controls, so we didn't do that stuff, we didn't do the equalizer, we didn't have a long enough composite cable to actually use the VCR, we weren't particularly successful at setting it up to do easy projection and sound from a computer, and we didn't set it up to actually work off one master power button. Well now, it's much more high tech. We can use the equalizer now, which means hopefully we don't need to choose between blasting the neighbors with over-loud movie music or not being able to hear the over-soft dialog. We can actually get picture as well as sound out of the VCR. We turn it on and off with one button now. We can use the remote controls with it easy, rather than doing the annoying bend-around-can't-see-a-damn-thing controlling of it we've had in the past... and hopefully this will be an improvement. And we now have cords coming out for plugging into a computer... which all goes through the VCR (DVD player doesn't have AUX-in as it doesn't record)... which unfortunately does degrade the quality as it is a crappy old mono VCR, but at least it's easy to set up. Also, we put the glass door on the stereo stack (and then took it immediately back off and cleaned it), so it looks much classier than it did before. Anyway, the whole thing took pretty much all morning, but it's done now... so yay!
Other accomplishments for today include a fridge audit, starting laundry, and vacuuming.
I'm also starting to think about what I'll be planting in my garden this coming spring. I'm seriously looking forward to gardening again.
Plans for tonight include going to REI to get Josh some biking shoes, sewing some button holes into a shirt for my sister, cutting Josh's hair, cleaning the kitchen (again), and hopefully finishing the leg work on a few last financial things from last year (if only the online banking at the credit union starts working again by tonight). Ah, what fun.
This morning, Josh and I rearranged our A/V stuff. We moved the stereo stack over to the far side of the room (where the speakers are and where the projector projects to, across from the couch). This involved unplugging everything, and then replugging everything, and more. Because before we were kind of lazy putting it together... we weren't planning to use remote controls, so we didn't do that stuff, we didn't do the equalizer, we didn't have a long enough composite cable to actually use the VCR, we weren't particularly successful at setting it up to do easy projection and sound from a computer, and we didn't set it up to actually work off one master power button. Well now, it's much more high tech. We can use the equalizer now, which means hopefully we don't need to choose between blasting the neighbors with over-loud movie music or not being able to hear the over-soft dialog. We can actually get picture as well as sound out of the VCR. We turn it on and off with one button now. We can use the remote controls with it easy, rather than doing the annoying bend-around-can't-see-a-damn-thing controlling of it we've had in the past... and hopefully this will be an improvement. And we now have cords coming out for plugging into a computer... which all goes through the VCR (DVD player doesn't have AUX-in as it doesn't record)... which unfortunately does degrade the quality as it is a crappy old mono VCR, but at least it's easy to set up. Also, we put the glass door on the stereo stack (and then took it immediately back off and cleaned it), so it looks much classier than it did before. Anyway, the whole thing took pretty much all morning, but it's done now... so yay!
Other accomplishments for today include a fridge audit, starting laundry, and vacuuming.
I'm also starting to think about what I'll be planting in my garden this coming spring. I'm seriously looking forward to gardening again.
Plans for tonight include going to REI to get Josh some biking shoes, sewing some button holes into a shirt for my sister, cutting Josh's hair, cleaning the kitchen (again), and hopefully finishing the leg work on a few last financial things from last year (if only the online banking at the credit union starts working again by tonight). Ah, what fun.
