Monthly Archives: December 2017
New Friends and Mexican Breezes . . .
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I spend most of the day working on a lot of online and paper catalog corrections at work today, keeping me busy enough that the day was over before I knew it. Nice day.
Gas prices are still drifting downward, with an 8 cent drop just in the last week, now at $1.93 a gallon.
My new HDMI cable came in today to replace the flakey one that connects between our Direct TV DVR and our Samsung TV.
I got the heavy duty, gold-plated one so I hope it will last longer that the old one.
One of our reader’s commented that the Grimaldi’s in Tucson that I mentioned a couple of days ago was closed when they tried to visit recently.
Turns out they closed right after Thanksgiving because they lost their lease. Or as the article says, they failed to negotiable a new one. Which probably means that the landlord jacked up the rent more than they were willing to pay.
Which must have been a lot since the location was one of the most popular ones in Arizona. They say they will be reopening at the new location sometime late next year.
About 5:15 Jan and I drove over to the La Brisa Mexican Restaurant on 146 in Bacliff to meet up with blog reader’s Jan and Dale. They’re staying at an RV park down in La Marque and wanted to get together to meet.
We had a great time, great food, and hopefully we’ll be able to to it again soon.
Karma hasn’t had an update recently so here she is.
For a half feral stray, she’s turned out to be a pretty good kitty.
The Word of the Day is: Terpsichorean
Thought for the Day:
Everything happens for a reason. But sometimes the reason is that you’re stupid and make bad decisions.
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It Was The . . .
Jan and I left the rig a little after1pm heading up to the Clear Lake area.
Our first stop was King Food for our usual delicious meal of Hot & Sour Soup and Extra Spicy Chicken with Jalapenos in Hot Garlic Sauce. We’ve been eating here for so long that when we walked in this afternoon, the owner asked, “The usual?”
While we were eating, I got a text message from Amazon saying my new Echo Dot had been delivered to my client’s, so after we were done, we went by to pick it up.
Then it was on to Staples to make a return of some card stock we didn’t need and then it was on up the Interstate to the Wal-Mart for some gifts and supplies.
I had hoped to get home early enough to install the new awning, but didn’t quite make it. I wanted to make sure I had plenty of daylight to finish the job in one session. So now it’s put off until Saturday morning sometime. I hope.
Getting home I set up the the new Echo Dot and installed it in the bedroom. Besides the usual Alexa stuff, we’ll also be able to use it as an intercom between the Echo in the front of the coach and the Dot in the bedroom. It’s called Drop-In, and once it’s set up you just say, “Alexa, drop in on the bedroom” and you’re in communication.
I mentioned a couple of times in earlier blogs about the video/audio blackouts that I was experiencing on our Direct TV DVR/Samsung TV.
Since the blackouts weren’t recorded, but only seen on live TV, I pretty much eliminated a problem with the DVR. And I eliminated the HDMI cable between the DVR and TV by plugging and unplugging it, and wiggling it along the entire length with nary a glitch.
So I was narrowing it down to the TV itself. I did try swapping inputs but the problem still occurred. But before I looked in to replacing the TV under our Wal-Mart extended warranty,, for some reason I swapped out the HDMI cable with the longer one that connects my computer to the TV.
And after two days the problem had not reoccurred. And then when I swapped the original cable back in, it no longer worked at all. For about 30 seconds, and then it started to work again.
And again, shaking the cable and twisting it didn’t make any difference.
Then that evening when we came home the screen was pink with no audio. And once again, no amount of plugging, unplugging, twisting, shaking, wiggling, etc. made any difference to the picture.
So I swapped the long cable back and ordered a new one from Amazon which should be here tomorrow. So it was the cable.
What I still don’t understand is why the cable was acting like this. There are no active components, just wires. And if there’s a problem, it should be sensitive to any kind of vibration. But every now and then you come across something that makes you say WTH?
Then you just accept it and move on.
The Word of the Day is: Congressional Staffer in Charge of Investigating Sexual Harassment Accused of Sexual Harassment
Thought for the Day:
As a kid, did you enjoy ringing people’s doorbells and then running away before they could answer?
Well, they’re hiring.
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