Saturday, March 31, 2007

My P-Touch and Mah Jongg

The 2007 Mah Jongg card arrived in the mail. I grabbd the trusty Brother Ptouch label maker and put labels on all the cards when the girls played Thursday night.

Friday, March 23, 2007

DVR - and how NBC should beef up their website

Our family is a DVR family and we subscribe through the cable company. It's a great peacemaker - no more "OMG - YOU were supposed to tape Boston Legal." The DVR is set to record it at any time on any station. You can't do that with Law & Order, it's on every hour of the day on some channel. So we set that for just the specific night and time.

But every once in a while we goof. I'm a die hard ER fan. Loved it from George Clooney through John Stamos. But somehow or another the DVR didn't pick up the new episodes after January 1 of this year. Didn't realize it until three or four weeks into the year.

If it was my beloved Grey's Anatomy or Desperate Housewives, I could tune into ABC.com and catch it online. But NBC only gives a text synopsis with a two minute clip. This is not good.

I know I should be grateful that ABC is providing this wonderful service, but I grew up when ABC, CBS and NBC were all equal. Maybe not in the ratings, but in the format and content they provided. So I expect their Internet content to be on par with one another.

Jeff Zucker. .. are you a blog reader? If someone who is working for him reads this, please whisper in his ear.... I want my favorite NBC show on the website.

Jeffrey Zucker, President, NBC (Photo from NBC.com)

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Can you move the odometer on the stationary bike?

At least for guests. My in-laws stayed the weekend in the guestroom and my mother-in-law actually noticed that the mileage on my bicycle hadn't increased since their visit here a month ago. She said she remembered the number because it was the same digits as her birthday - 1018.

Now I'll have to use it just to show her it is NOT the clothesrack she thinks it is.