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The new light works!

December 6, 2007 by Tricia

We finally got around to putting the new DLP light in our TV the other night and I’m please to let you know that that horrible chain saw buzzing noise is gone!

The new light does make some sound but it’s not grating or so loud that you have to keep turning the TV up louder and louder to drown out the sound of the fans jarring motor.

I’m so happy it’s fixed!

Since the old light was still working, although noisily, we’ve decided to keep it. Remember I said in my last post about our TV that when the first light went out it went out without any notice … well if it happens again (in two years or more please) with this new light at least we’ll have a back up until we can replace the burned out light.

What really kills me about these DLP’s other than having to replace a part every two years or so is that you can only get them at a few places. I really think that the stores that sell DLP TV’s should keep some replacement lights in stock. The first time we needed to replace the light for the TV we had to wait a week and this time I ordered the light on a Friday- I was told it was their last one in stock – and since the place of business is way over on the other side of the city (an hours drive) we didn’t pick it up until Tuesday.





Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: business, Buzz, city, DLP television, DLP TV, fixed, Friday, frustrating, grating, grating sound, happy, in stock, irritating, jarring, light, loud, new, noise, noise from light, sound, TV

Putting aside my hopes of travel

December 6, 2007 by Tricia

I was hoping now that I got Chris to go on a trip, and since he did ok with flying this time, that we’d be able to start traveling more.

Then we got a puppy.

I can’t seem to get much of anything done now that we have this energetic ball of fur running around!

I’m so tired and my Crohns is starting to act up bad – probably from the lack of sleep and increased activity.

Well, I guess we can still go on trips to places that we can drive to at least.

I had been hoping to get out to Vancouver sometime in the New Year – perhaps in the Spring or early Summer, but driving there takes four or five days so we’d have to take at least three weeks to make a proper trip of it. Might as well plan on going to one of those Hawaii bed and breakfast. It’s just not going to happen right now.

The puppy won’t even be a year old until the end of August and that seems like forever to me right now. The way she chews things and goes into what I call parana mode (all mouth!) I don’t think we’d even bother to ask any of our friends to look after her until she calms down some.

Do I sound like a new mom or what?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris, Our Puppy, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: breakfast, Chris, crohn, crohns, driving, friends, Hawaii, puppy, sleep, spring, Summer, tired, travel, traveling, trip, Vancouver

We have to replace the DLP TV light again!

December 4, 2007 by Tricia

I know I’ve mentioned before that we have a large DLP television set. Well, approximately every two years or so you need to replace the light bulb in the TV.

Last summer our first light went out with little warning at all. Just poof and no more TV picture.

Now it seems that the light we currently have in the TV is failing. Yes it’s only be a bit more than a year since we bought the last one, but this light’s fan makes the worst humming and buzzing sound! We still have a picture and it looks good but the noise from the lights fan is just awful.

Lately it’s been sounding like we have a workshop in our living room when we first turn on the TV. It’s sort of a ringing, buzzing saw kind of sound. Then once the TV warms up the sound is quieter but still irritating.

I blame myself for the TV’s light beginning to fail so early. I stay up late at night because of my Crohn’s pain and I keep the TV on for company. So the poor TV is on for 12+ hours each day.

Considering that the light is so important to the TV they should be made to be kept on for extended periods of time but I guess they aren’t.

So Chris went to a special electronics supplier earlier today to pick up a new bulb for our TV. We’re waiting for the light to reach normal indoor temps before we put it in the TV … it was a long cool car ride.

At least the light was a little cheaper this time … only about $250. Last year it cost us closer to $400!

When we get a new TV we will not be getting another DLP. It has a great picture but there’s just too many problems. A TV should work well for at least 10 years without having to replace parts. Geesh!

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Television Tagged With: buzzing, car, Chris, company, crohns, DLP TV, DLP TV light, electronics, expensive, fan noises, high pitched fan noise, irritating, late at night, light, light and fan, living room, new bulb, noise, picture, price, problems, sound, Summer, Television, warm up, warming up, work

A bright little rose

December 2, 2007 by Tricia

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I love this little rose plant. It’s called Morden Sunrise and it produces the most lovely multicolored roses.

Morden Sunrise is a fairly compact rose plant. Mine has never reached more than 2 to 2.5 feet tall, yet it produces a number of bright blooms regularly throughout the growing season. It’s also a hardy rose so those in cool climates would do well with this rose.

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: bloom, blooms, color, cool, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, hardy rose, Morden Sunrise, photo, plant, rose, roses, sunrise

What to get a 10 year old for Christmas?

December 2, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been trying to think of what to get my youngest niece for Christmas. She’s almost 10 years old and she’s a real girly girl.

It can sometimes be hard to buy gifts for kids when you don’t have any of your own. There are so many trendy items that are hot one month and dead the next. It’s hard to keep up.

I’m pretty sure that she’d love it if I could get her High School Musical tickets. It looks like the Ice Tour is here in Toronto all through the week of Christmas. Surprisingly they even have a show on Christmas day!

Do you think that that’s something a 10 year old girl would really like to get for Christmas? Any other ideas?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: buy, christmas, gift, Gifts, High School Musical, Ice Tour, ideas, kid, kids, Music, Niece, show, ticket, tickets, Toronto, trendy, week of Christmas

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