Quickie Thursday
Sorry, folks, but this one is just a quickie with no pictures. There are some great pictures on my camera, and even a finished object to report, but I have so much to do and I need to get some of the monkeys off my back.
I spent last night finally getting the patterns I had promised out the door, and as usual I had to print several of them out twice because I made mistakes in assembly. I swear, I am going to change the format on the booklet ones so I can slide 'em in to page protectors and call it a day.
Tonight, I am going to start tackling a problem with my laptop, and hopefully will have it resolved enough to post for Blankie Friday tomorrow. This is the new laptop that I just bought a few months ago, and it is still great except for one thing. The DVD player isn't working right, and every time I try to watch a movie on it the sound is all jaggedy sort of like static. I've tried all kinds of DVDs on it, and it's the machine, not the media. Toshiba gave me a work order number to send it in for repair, but I'm going to try wiping the hard drive and going back to factory settings to see if that fixes the problem first. Also, my Windows Vista upgrade came in the mail the other day, so if I get the DVD working properly, I may just try that while I'm at it, computer gods help me. Right now I'm backing up all my data in preparation for this business, and I've got about 20 more minutes to wait. Then comes the real fun!
I will share one little nugget with you. Julie got to go bowling for the first time last night. She was invited to a little friend's birthday party, and they had the bumper lanes set up with the ramp thingie that the kids just have to put the ball on top and push it down the lane. At first, she was really shy and didn't want to do it, but by the end of the night she was saying "I want to go play bowling some more!" If everything goes okay with the computer, I'll post a picture tomorrow.
Oh, also - everyone go look at page 24 of Craft magazine! The robot stained glass that I bought Joe for Christmas is in there! I was shocked when I saw it, and had to go check - it's a picture of the actual one we have hanging in our house. They're one of a kind works, and she even has a link to a picture of Joe holding it on her site. Joe's is the one at the bottom of the page. Joe was embarrassed when he saw the picture again - it's one that I'd posted here a while back - "You can see my laundry basket in the background!" In any case, the fact that the magazine wrote it up just confirms for me that it is indeed one of the coolest things ever and worth what I happily paid for it.
I spent last night finally getting the patterns I had promised out the door, and as usual I had to print several of them out twice because I made mistakes in assembly. I swear, I am going to change the format on the booklet ones so I can slide 'em in to page protectors and call it a day.
Tonight, I am going to start tackling a problem with my laptop, and hopefully will have it resolved enough to post for Blankie Friday tomorrow. This is the new laptop that I just bought a few months ago, and it is still great except for one thing. The DVD player isn't working right, and every time I try to watch a movie on it the sound is all jaggedy sort of like static. I've tried all kinds of DVDs on it, and it's the machine, not the media. Toshiba gave me a work order number to send it in for repair, but I'm going to try wiping the hard drive and going back to factory settings to see if that fixes the problem first. Also, my Windows Vista upgrade came in the mail the other day, so if I get the DVD working properly, I may just try that while I'm at it, computer gods help me. Right now I'm backing up all my data in preparation for this business, and I've got about 20 more minutes to wait. Then comes the real fun!
I will share one little nugget with you. Julie got to go bowling for the first time last night. She was invited to a little friend's birthday party, and they had the bumper lanes set up with the ramp thingie that the kids just have to put the ball on top and push it down the lane. At first, she was really shy and didn't want to do it, but by the end of the night she was saying "I want to go play bowling some more!" If everything goes okay with the computer, I'll post a picture tomorrow.
Oh, also - everyone go look at page 24 of Craft magazine! The robot stained glass that I bought Joe for Christmas is in there! I was shocked when I saw it, and had to go check - it's a picture of the actual one we have hanging in our house. They're one of a kind works, and she even has a link to a picture of Joe holding it on her site. Joe's is the one at the bottom of the page. Joe was embarrassed when he saw the picture again - it's one that I'd posted here a while back - "You can see my laundry basket in the background!" In any case, the fact that the magazine wrote it up just confirms for me that it is indeed one of the coolest things ever and worth what I happily paid for it.
posted by Shelly Kang at 8:43 PM
2 Comments:
It's probably too late and I'm sure you've wiped your HD by now, but have you tried different DVD playback software? I always have problems with Windows Media Player, but everything works fine with some other software (I think it's PowerDVD or something like that).
If you guys like robots, you should check out ericjoyner.com. His stuff is so cool! I learned about him from thesneeze.com. Funniest blog ever!
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