For about 18 months now, my wife and I have been trying an experiment using a Mac G4 Tower, to see if we could mimic what an Apple TV does inherently. Since we got our tax refund, we figured we would give it a go with the Apple TV.
What a time sink it is… especially the YouTube feature…
I spent most of Friday night watching videos of the Moscow Metro (don’t ask… it’s an illness I have) and Tokyo transportation system. Saturday I started converting the files I had saved for my use on the Mac G4 into M4V files that could be played on the Apple TV.
When you’re driving in a city that has a streetcar system, and, especially when you’re driving on the street that has the streetcar, make sure you’re watching your back, not running lights, and, in general, paying attention.This, by the way, was in Houston, Texas… Not to get political, but I wonder how many of the people who got smacked were voters for the current administration.
My wife and I had been living in a perpetual State of the ’80s… I think we were the last people on the face of the planet to own a waterbed. Yes… it didn’t even have foam inserts - it was totally a free-wave, bladder-type waterbed.
Until this past Friday…
We purchased a canopy bed that reminds me of the insides of Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, which we got on sale for less than $500, and, to put on that bed we purchased a mattress from a company called “Bed In A Box”. They sell only “memory foam,” or visco-elastic foam mattresses. The one we got was their PacBamboo-Plus, queen size, for less than $700 (including shipping), which has a bamboo-fabric cover, but is otherwise very similar to a $3,400 model sold by Tempur-Pedic.
It’s taking some getting used to. We’re talking going from a bed that was very soft, with no support, to a bed that feels like I’m sleeping on a slab, but has sufficient-enough give to be comfortable.
I’ll let Tracy tell you about the installation of the mattress, since she was the one who (against my suggestion) went ahead and did it.
The kids and I went to my folks’ house in Sebastian. The trip served multiple purposes:
To get the kids out of the house so that my lovely wife could do her “homework” for her on-line classes that she is taking.
To get the kids up to their grandparents for a visit.
To give the kids an opportunity to get used to the “in-flight” entertainment that is now available to them for such trips, and
To give me an excuse to see my folks - something I want to do at least once a month this year.
The trip was a good one. We were able to go up and see my parents, who are doing fairly well. The boys had fun watching “Cars” on the small screen DVD player we’ve got in the new van. Something even better, though, was the fact that while they were able to watch, I was able to listen to my own radio programs in the front portion of the van.
Traffic on the way up and back was mixed, of course, with traffic on Florida’s Turnpike being manageable, and traffic on I-95 being barely so.
Great fun was had by all, and a good nap was had by dad.
So, we had an accident in the car a couple weeks back. When my lovely (although draxzaster said “hot” while we were in Vegas, and i would tend to agree with him) wife failed to yield the right-of-way, she slightly crunched the back of another vehicle. Anyhow, we got the car repaired for $500 out-of-pocket, and all the while, we were thinking “why not just get another car?” So we did…
We bought a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country Touring-class minivan with 28k miles on it. New, this van would have cost the original owner $33,000. It is simply the most luxurious auto we’ve ever owned. Fully-appointed with leather, power seats, DVD player (for the kids). We got it at a steal at $17,000.
Since we tend to drive our cars into the ground, I’m hoping this one lasts us the five to seven years we’re planning on having it.
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