And I’m back…

The problem with the TV was not permanently fixed by completely resetting it so I jumped on the Sony website and found out it needed a firmware update. Yay. Had to reformat my flash drive so it would work; for some reason even though it is only two years old it came formatted under FAT 16 and not FAT 32 so the TV didn’t recognize it. That’s a little weird to me. The formatting issue, not the TV. Makes me wonder how long it was in the back room before I finally bought it. Oh well. I also wonder how often I’ll need to do this, and should I make sure my next TV has an Ethernet port on the back. C’mon, it’s me…

The cable company phone reps are dingbats. During the long discussion about whether or not they rented CableCARDs out (even though it’s on their website that they do) they finally got around to asking how many cards I needed. I told them if they have multi-stream cards I just need one, if they are single-stream cards I need two. Dude shows up (right on time amazingly) with, you guessed it, two multi-stream cards. He’d never done a TiVo installation before, kind of makes me wonder if the other technology geeks up here all have satellite or have just settled for the cable company’s DVR. Once you go TiVo…and I can’t think of anything that rhymes and and sounds appropriately risque at the same time.

Haven’t gotten a whole lot moved since my last entry, which means I have to haul ass tomorrow to get everything completed. Procrastination seems to be my way, and I hate it, but I just can’t seem to do anything about it. Maybe tomorrow….

Had to cancel plans with AmandaC since I’m not done moving yet. Add to that I’m out of gas and money until payday and you can see the problem. I should have enough gas to make the necessary trips to get moved if I load properly. I’ve only got my bed frame, what’s left in my closet, some lamps, and the junk room to get moved. I don’t think it’d take more than an hour or two if I’d just make my lazy self do it.

I’ve been really sick the past few days. I thought maybe it was the flu but it might have just been really bad allergies, even though I don’t normally have a problem with them. Someone at work mentioned seeing something on the weather about how the cold snaps had kept the early blooming plants from blooming, so everything bloomed and released pollen at the same time this year. They said a lot of people who had never had problems before were having them this year. I was bad though, I got sent home early from work two days in a row. I wouldn’t have gone in at all if it hadn’t been the weekend. Critter and the kids had the same thing, I think. She told me yesterday they’d all been sick, the kids constantly coughing and her being pretty well knocked down like it was the flu, same as me.

My cable company had a lineup change scheduled for May first, but decided to flip the switch this morning instead. Fortunately it’s just basic channels that are moving around so I didn’t lose any of my normal shows today. I had to set up manual recordings for some of the basic stuff that’s on the rest of this week on the new box, since it at least could see the channels, even if it didn’t know what they were yet. And of course my on-screen guide is pretty well useless until TiVo pushes the change down to my boxes, which is probably supposed to happen the morning of the first. It really sucks for people still using VCRs to record things though.

That’s all for now. I’ve been up way too late again tonight, but I wanted to write. It’s been kind of chilly and rainy here so I’ve spent most of the day inside. I’m going to start a hard-core, no holds barred diet on Monday. I’m tired of feeling like crap. Besides, I’m thirty-nine years old (even if mentally/emotionally I’m only twenty-nine) and I can’t eat like a teenager anymore, my body can’t handle it. Still gonna have pizza once I hit my target weight, but it’ll be on the order of once a month, not once a week. Besides, I need to save up some extra money to replenish what I’ve spent on the move and cutting out the fast-food should make a huge impact. I’m also going to start walking again now that I’ve got a good place to do it that isn’t full of potholes, uneven ground, and NASCAR wannabes.

And now I’m going to bed for real.