The house guests are gone and the TV is operational once again! I apologize for there not being a blog yesterday. I just didn't have the time. Hopefully today begins a return to a regular schedule.
So DeAnne's Dad and his family left yesterday. We enjoyed seeing them and having them here, but we were ready to see them go also. It's amazing how similar the girls are to what I picture DeAnne and her sister Sara being like when they were small. While they were here, we also discovered that we will have no need for a baby monitor when we have children. Between the house being so small and the floors not being carpeted, we were able to easily hear Anna when she woke up in the night, even through two closed bedroom doors.
We also got the TV back yesterday. The new Dish receiver finally arrived, we hooked it up and now we just have to reset the eight million settings and recording timers we had set on the thing. It'll probably be days before we get everthing back in order. We've still got to figure out a way to see the shows we missed that don't rerun, but other than that, we're back in business.
Have a good Friday and a good weekend. Oh, and happy halloween.
--Paul
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
It's Amazing
It really is amazing how strange it is not to have TV. Even if we had it, we'd be watching cartoons for DeAnne's little sister, but still, it would be TV. Instead, we've had to watch a steady stream of Disney movies. This is much worse on DeAnne simply because she's here during the day so she has more exposure to it than I do.
Her Dad did get a building and got the majority of his stuff moved yesterday. He should finish up moving today and then I think they're planning on leaving either Thursday or Friday. It's really been a lot of fun at times. The children are starting to really warm up to DeAnne and I, Cindy (the oldest one) especially. We've had a good time with them, but it'll be nice to have the house to ourselves again. We've enjoyed the company that we've had lately and we're glad for it, but at the same time, you miss just having time to yourselves. I know that if we ever have children, that will be a permanent change, but with children it just seems like it would be different. Of course, I could be wrong. Who knows?
The election is only six days away. The closer it gets, the more news items seem to come out directly tying Obama to socialist ideals. Fox News has had a steady stream of articles detailing Obama's connection to socialist thinkers such as William Ayers. It's beyond me how anyone can vote for Obama after looking at this guy's history and record. I guess there's just that many people in this country that have gotten so lazy that they're to the point of looking to the government for a handout. Now that's sad. Go vote next Tuesday.
Have a good Wednesday.
--Paul
Her Dad did get a building and got the majority of his stuff moved yesterday. He should finish up moving today and then I think they're planning on leaving either Thursday or Friday. It's really been a lot of fun at times. The children are starting to really warm up to DeAnne and I, Cindy (the oldest one) especially. We've had a good time with them, but it'll be nice to have the house to ourselves again. We've enjoyed the company that we've had lately and we're glad for it, but at the same time, you miss just having time to yourselves. I know that if we ever have children, that will be a permanent change, but with children it just seems like it would be different. Of course, I could be wrong. Who knows?
The election is only six days away. The closer it gets, the more news items seem to come out directly tying Obama to socialist ideals. Fox News has had a steady stream of articles detailing Obama's connection to socialist thinkers such as William Ayers. It's beyond me how anyone can vote for Obama after looking at this guy's history and record. I guess there's just that many people in this country that have gotten so lazy that they're to the point of looking to the government for a handout. Now that's sad. Go vote next Tuesday.
Have a good Wednesday.
--Paul
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Crouching Blog, Hidden Post
I managed to get a post in today. Things are going well. DeAnne's dad, step-mother and two half-sisters are staying with us. So far things have been pretty cool. The girls are precious, DeAnne's step-mom is nice and her dad...well, he's her dad.
The biggest problem we've had so far is that the Dish receiver died yesterday. It won't even come on. So now we have a three year old in the house and no TV to entertain her with. Normally, I wouldn't consider this to be a problem but, since their just visiting, they didn't exactly bring a toy chest full of toys for them to play with. So last night we had to bust out some of the kids movies DeAnne has picked up for her classrooms.
I'm a little upset with Dish. I called and after jumping through all kinds of hoops to appease the tech so that he would finally declare the receiver dead, he told me it was going to be 3 to 5 days before we got the replacement. Already, having it down last night hurt. We missed Chuck, Heroes, Little People, Big World, Jon & Kate and 17 Kids and Counting. There's nothing on on Tuesday, but Wednesday has Pushing Dasies and Private Practice and Thursday is Ugly Betty and Grey's. So if it takes three days to get the new receiver, we're out pretty much an entire week of our shows. I guess we'll have to turn to steaming versions on the company websites. I think the worst part of all of this though is going to be redoing all the timers to record the shows when we get the new receiver in. There's no way to transfer the settings from the old receiver to the new one.
So that's what's been going on. I think I'll be able to post the rest of the week, but if I miss a day, then don't hold it against me.
Have a good Tuesday.
--Paul
The biggest problem we've had so far is that the Dish receiver died yesterday. It won't even come on. So now we have a three year old in the house and no TV to entertain her with. Normally, I wouldn't consider this to be a problem but, since their just visiting, they didn't exactly bring a toy chest full of toys for them to play with. So last night we had to bust out some of the kids movies DeAnne has picked up for her classrooms.
I'm a little upset with Dish. I called and after jumping through all kinds of hoops to appease the tech so that he would finally declare the receiver dead, he told me it was going to be 3 to 5 days before we got the replacement. Already, having it down last night hurt. We missed Chuck, Heroes, Little People, Big World, Jon & Kate and 17 Kids and Counting. There's nothing on on Tuesday, but Wednesday has Pushing Dasies and Private Practice and Thursday is Ugly Betty and Grey's. So if it takes three days to get the new receiver, we're out pretty much an entire week of our shows. I guess we'll have to turn to steaming versions on the company websites. I think the worst part of all of this though is going to be redoing all the timers to record the shows when we get the new receiver in. There's no way to transfer the settings from the old receiver to the new one.
So that's what's been going on. I think I'll be able to post the rest of the week, but if I miss a day, then don't hold it against me.
Have a good Tuesday.
--Paul
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