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Dec. 26th, 2001
New Years Resolution #1: - Be more trusting of Humans.
The new VCR says HI And BYE when you turn it on or off. This creeps me out to no end.
The new VCR says HI And BYE when you turn it on or off. This creeps me out to no end.
SALT
Someone have mercy on me and give me some seared animal flesh with LOTS Of salt!
Fruit salad is nice, and so is cookies and baklava and candies and chocolates...but PLEASE! GIVE ME PROTIEN WITH SALT! ANYTHING, PLEASE! Beans, steak, chicken, cheese! ALL I ASK FOR IS SALT!
New Years Resolution #2: - Remember to stock up on non-candy items next Christmas
Today I was supposed to see Steph, but this didn't pan out. So I spent the day FINALLY catching up on my EMail and LJ Comments and junk'n'stuff. Not to mention giving my sister a taste of her own medicine.
My sister can be an INCREDIBLY selfish person. You CANNOT use her stuff because it's hers. Period. Her computer is verboten to us even when she's not here. Same with her car (which my mom uses anyways, and then gets an earful). But if she needs something of ours, she just gets it.
Last night, when I asked to borrow her PS2 to watch a DVD in my room, she simply said no. I asked her why I couldn't use it since she was going to bed, anyways: "BEcause it's mine."
So she tries to watch a DVD movie on her TV, and can't (it should be noted it was one of MY DVDs I didn't know she borrowed). Her VCR picked up the MAcrovision signal on the DVD and smeared the image. (Macrovision is a signal put on movies that makes your VCR go haywire if you try to copy the movie). So she can't watch DVDs...While she was out, I quickly borrowed her PS2, plugged it into my new VCR to see if it would work, and it DID! IT seems my VCR ignores the MAcrovision signal until you hit the record button. Once you press record THEN the image smears.
Told my sis about it. Her first response: "Can I borrow your VCR in the morning?"
Heh.
Me: "No."
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Because it's mine."
Her: "That stupid."
Me: "It is isn't it?"
Hee hee....
On a lighter note, I took the telescope for a shakedown cruise of the stars. Typical destinations - the Moon, which is BEAUTIFUL! and Saturn. Saturn looks nice, and you can see the rings, but I took it out WAY too early, and it was hazy on the horizon. I can't get a handle on how the fine tuning works on it, either. I did manage to get close enough to Saturn to really get a nice look at the rings. Nothing spectacular, mind you, its still pretty small, but Saturn is a beautiful planet.
Aspiring astronomers out there should find an old abandonware program called Skyglobe. Good program there.
And - to add to last nights creepy VCR story...I forgot about the Sleep Timer on my old TV. Ten seconds before it shuts off, the timer comes up, and counts down to zero. Once it gets to 5 seconds before it shuts off it prints on the screen: "Good Night."
After it shuts down, the antenna sprouts out, grabs a knife and kills you. I should know. It's happened to me. :)
Someone have mercy on me and give me some seared animal flesh with LOTS Of salt!
Fruit salad is nice, and so is cookies and baklava and candies and chocolates...but PLEASE! GIVE ME PROTIEN WITH SALT! ANYTHING, PLEASE! Beans, steak, chicken, cheese! ALL I ASK FOR IS SALT!
New Years Resolution #2: - Remember to stock up on non-candy items next Christmas
Today I was supposed to see Steph, but this didn't pan out. So I spent the day FINALLY catching up on my EMail and LJ Comments and junk'n'stuff. Not to mention giving my sister a taste of her own medicine.
My sister can be an INCREDIBLY selfish person. You CANNOT use her stuff because it's hers. Period. Her computer is verboten to us even when she's not here. Same with her car (which my mom uses anyways, and then gets an earful). But if she needs something of ours, she just gets it.
Last night, when I asked to borrow her PS2 to watch a DVD in my room, she simply said no. I asked her why I couldn't use it since she was going to bed, anyways: "BEcause it's mine."
So she tries to watch a DVD movie on her TV, and can't (it should be noted it was one of MY DVDs I didn't know she borrowed). Her VCR picked up the MAcrovision signal on the DVD and smeared the image. (Macrovision is a signal put on movies that makes your VCR go haywire if you try to copy the movie). So she can't watch DVDs...While she was out, I quickly borrowed her PS2, plugged it into my new VCR to see if it would work, and it DID! IT seems my VCR ignores the MAcrovision signal until you hit the record button. Once you press record THEN the image smears.
Told my sis about it. Her first response: "Can I borrow your VCR in the morning?"
Heh.
Me: "No."
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Because it's mine."
Her: "That stupid."
Me: "It is isn't it?"
Hee hee....
On a lighter note, I took the telescope for a shakedown cruise of the stars. Typical destinations - the Moon, which is BEAUTIFUL! and Saturn. Saturn looks nice, and you can see the rings, but I took it out WAY too early, and it was hazy on the horizon. I can't get a handle on how the fine tuning works on it, either. I did manage to get close enough to Saturn to really get a nice look at the rings. Nothing spectacular, mind you, its still pretty small, but Saturn is a beautiful planet.
Aspiring astronomers out there should find an old abandonware program called Skyglobe. Good program there.
And - to add to last nights creepy VCR story...I forgot about the Sleep Timer on my old TV. Ten seconds before it shuts off, the timer comes up, and counts down to zero. Once it gets to 5 seconds before it shuts off it prints on the screen: "Good Night."
After it shuts down, the antenna sprouts out, grabs a knife and kills you. I should know. It's happened to me. :)
SALT
Someone have mercy on me and give me some seared animal flesh with LOTS Of salt!
Fruit salad is nice, and so is cookies and baklava and candies and chocolates...but PLEASE! GIVE ME PROTIEN WITH SALT! ANYTHING, PLEASE! Beans, steak, chicken, cheese! ALL I ASK FOR IS SALT!
New Years Resolution #2: - Remember to stock up on non-candy items next Christmas
Today I was supposed to see Steph, but this didn't pan out. So I spent the day FINALLY catching up on my EMail and LJ Comments and junk'n'stuff. Not to mention giving my sister a taste of her own medicine.
My sister can be an INCREDIBLY selfish person. You CANNOT use her stuff because it's hers. Period. Her computer is verboten to us even when she's not here. Same with her car (which my mom uses anyways, and then gets an earful). But if she needs something of ours, she just gets it.
Last night, when I asked to borrow her PS2 to watch a DVD in my room, she simply said no. I asked her why I couldn't use it since she was going to bed, anyways: "BEcause it's mine."
So she tries to watch a DVD movie on her TV, and can't (it should be noted it was one of MY DVDs I didn't know she borrowed). Her VCR picked up the MAcrovision signal on the DVD and smeared the image. (Macrovision is a signal put on movies that makes your VCR go haywire if you try to copy the movie). So she can't watch DVDs...While she was out, I quickly borrowed her PS2, plugged it into my new VCR to see if it would work, and it DID! IT seems my VCR ignores the MAcrovision signal until you hit the record button. Once you press record THEN the image smears.
Told my sis about it. Her first response: "Can I borrow your VCR in the morning?"
Heh.
Me: "No."
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Because it's mine."
Her: "That stupid."
Me: "It is isn't it?"
Hee hee....
On a lighter note, I took the telescope for a shakedown cruise of the stars. Typical destinations - the Moon, which is BEAUTIFUL! and Saturn. Saturn looks nice, and you can see the rings, but I took it out WAY too early, and it was hazy on the horizon. I can't get a handle on how the fine tuning works on it, either. I did manage to get close enough to Saturn to really get a nice look at the rings. Nothing spectacular, mind you, its still pretty small, but Saturn is a beautiful planet.
Aspiring astronomers out there should find an old abandonware program called Skyglobe. Good program there.
And - to add to last nights creepy VCR story...I forgot about the Sleep Timer on my old TV. Ten seconds before it shuts off, the timer comes up, and counts down to zero. Once it gets to 5 seconds before it shuts off it prints on the screen: "Good Night."
After it shuts down, the antenna sprouts out, grabs a knife and kills you. I should know. It's happened to me. :)
Someone have mercy on me and give me some seared animal flesh with LOTS Of salt!
Fruit salad is nice, and so is cookies and baklava and candies and chocolates...but PLEASE! GIVE ME PROTIEN WITH SALT! ANYTHING, PLEASE! Beans, steak, chicken, cheese! ALL I ASK FOR IS SALT!
New Years Resolution #2: - Remember to stock up on non-candy items next Christmas
Today I was supposed to see Steph, but this didn't pan out. So I spent the day FINALLY catching up on my EMail and LJ Comments and junk'n'stuff. Not to mention giving my sister a taste of her own medicine.
My sister can be an INCREDIBLY selfish person. You CANNOT use her stuff because it's hers. Period. Her computer is verboten to us even when she's not here. Same with her car (which my mom uses anyways, and then gets an earful). But if she needs something of ours, she just gets it.
Last night, when I asked to borrow her PS2 to watch a DVD in my room, she simply said no. I asked her why I couldn't use it since she was going to bed, anyways: "BEcause it's mine."
So she tries to watch a DVD movie on her TV, and can't (it should be noted it was one of MY DVDs I didn't know she borrowed). Her VCR picked up the MAcrovision signal on the DVD and smeared the image. (Macrovision is a signal put on movies that makes your VCR go haywire if you try to copy the movie). So she can't watch DVDs...While she was out, I quickly borrowed her PS2, plugged it into my new VCR to see if it would work, and it DID! IT seems my VCR ignores the MAcrovision signal until you hit the record button. Once you press record THEN the image smears.
Told my sis about it. Her first response: "Can I borrow your VCR in the morning?"
Heh.
Me: "No."
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Because it's mine."
Her: "That stupid."
Me: "It is isn't it?"
Hee hee....
On a lighter note, I took the telescope for a shakedown cruise of the stars. Typical destinations - the Moon, which is BEAUTIFUL! and Saturn. Saturn looks nice, and you can see the rings, but I took it out WAY too early, and it was hazy on the horizon. I can't get a handle on how the fine tuning works on it, either. I did manage to get close enough to Saturn to really get a nice look at the rings. Nothing spectacular, mind you, its still pretty small, but Saturn is a beautiful planet.
Aspiring astronomers out there should find an old abandonware program called Skyglobe. Good program there.
And - to add to last nights creepy VCR story...I forgot about the Sleep Timer on my old TV. Ten seconds before it shuts off, the timer comes up, and counts down to zero. Once it gets to 5 seconds before it shuts off it prints on the screen: "Good Night."
After it shuts down, the antenna sprouts out, grabs a knife and kills you. I should know. It's happened to me. :)