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Jul. 1st, 2005 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revchrisI should post more often, but, well, I should post more often.
We went canoing two Mondays ago. Lots of fun, until we crashed into a rock while trying to read the park sign to see where we were (I can finally bend my right hand full-range, but it still hurts a little). That was the second canoe-rolling of the trip. The first one was right after we carried it over a sand bar; we got in, started moving, and rolled it in 6" of water. Fortunately we'd planned for that and the cooler and dry bags were tied to the canoe.
Last weekend we went to Mary & Dan's wedding reception on Saturday. Lots of fun. Took 350 pics, printed 180 of them and sent the album and CD to the happily married couple. Also (intentionally) spent a lot of time distracting the psychotic friend of the bride who wanted to corner her just to talk about the friend's troubles. Is it just me, or does the bride always take better pictures than the groom? Or is it just that we paid more attention to the bride because we like her better?
Last weekend Sunday we got tix to Tartuffe at APT. We made it through the first act, but then the heat, humidity, and some stomach thing we think we got at the wedding made us decide that going home would be a good idea, so we skipped the second half of the play. Very good, though. The whole play is set in rhyme, making it, as Maggs puts it, like 'Dr. Seuss does Shakespeare."
Today, we bought a new DVD player. This, of course, is not quite the simple process it sounds like. First, I had to find one that wouldn't do macrovision, since the DVD player is connected to the TV via the VCR. This involves starting at Best Buy and eventually moving to Walmart, but going through all the players listed on the web site, looking them up on a couple of hack sites, and eventually picking the Philips DVP642_37, which, according to all the reviews, is macrovision-free right out of the box. We went out, and they had a pile of them in the store for $58 each, so we bought one, took it home, set it up, put in a movie, and watched it macrovision. Back up the the computer and search around. Find the answer, download an older firmware file (0531), downgrade the player, and we're back in business.
We went canoing two Mondays ago. Lots of fun, until we crashed into a rock while trying to read the park sign to see where we were (I can finally bend my right hand full-range, but it still hurts a little). That was the second canoe-rolling of the trip. The first one was right after we carried it over a sand bar; we got in, started moving, and rolled it in 6" of water. Fortunately we'd planned for that and the cooler and dry bags were tied to the canoe.
Last weekend we went to Mary & Dan's wedding reception on Saturday. Lots of fun. Took 350 pics, printed 180 of them and sent the album and CD to the happily married couple. Also (intentionally) spent a lot of time distracting the psychotic friend of the bride who wanted to corner her just to talk about the friend's troubles. Is it just me, or does the bride always take better pictures than the groom? Or is it just that we paid more attention to the bride because we like her better?
Last weekend Sunday we got tix to Tartuffe at APT. We made it through the first act, but then the heat, humidity, and some stomach thing we think we got at the wedding made us decide that going home would be a good idea, so we skipped the second half of the play. Very good, though. The whole play is set in rhyme, making it, as Maggs puts it, like 'Dr. Seuss does Shakespeare."
Today, we bought a new DVD player. This, of course, is not quite the simple process it sounds like. First, I had to find one that wouldn't do macrovision, since the DVD player is connected to the TV via the VCR. This involves starting at Best Buy and eventually moving to Walmart, but going through all the players listed on the web site, looking them up on a couple of hack sites, and eventually picking the Philips DVP642_37, which, according to all the reviews, is macrovision-free right out of the box. We went out, and they had a pile of them in the store for $58 each, so we bought one, took it home, set it up, put in a movie, and watched it macrovision. Back up the the computer and search around. Find the answer, download an older firmware file (0531), downgrade the player, and we're back in business.
