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Weird sounds from our computer speakers

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

I think I’ve got to move somethings further away from my desktop computer. It’s really strange. If I happen to turn our cellphone on or off when I’m within a few feet from our computer our the computer speakers make a weird do do do boop boop noise. It’s kind of an alien sound.

The speakers have power going to them, but I always have them turned off because I hate it when I hit a website with autoplay music or video so I only turn the speakers on when I really want to hear something. I can only imagine what kind of sound the speakers would make when I turn the cell phone on if the volume was turned on!

I think they need better EMI Shielding or something. I have no idea why the cell phone and speakers interact that way.

The other strange thing that happens is the infrared controller on our desktop computer (it has a remote but I almost never use it) flashes on and off when we use the cable remote for our TV. As in when we are changing channels on the TV. Weird eh?

Does your computer do anything strange when you’re cell phone or other electronics are near it?





Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: alien, autoplay music, cable, cell phone, cellphone and speakers, computer, desktop, electronics, EMI shielding, interference, noise, play, sound, sound from speakers, strange, TV, Video

Oh yeah we’re going to have a home theater room

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

When we renovate our basement we are definitely purchasing home theater seating. Our basement is going to be a deluxe rec room!

We’ve got a 50 inch DLP TV and a great theater sound system so why not create a nice home theater room with proper seating?

Of course I think I also want to try to have a spare bedroom in the basement as well. Hmmm does home theater seating come as a pull out couch? LOL well if it does … I could kill two birds with one stone so to speak, couldn’t I?

I’m actually quite tired of all the renovations that we’ve been doing. I just want them done. Is anyone else going through the renovation blues?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Movies, Recreation, Television, Video Tagged With: basement, bedroom, Blues, couch, home, home theater seating, home theater system, rec room, renovate, renovation

Will they be successful in September?

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

I was just thinking about how our neighbors are going to try to sell their house in September. I don’t know why they didn’t try to sell in June or July. I’m pretty sure the real estate would have been better at that time of year.

I mean if your house looks nice and if your yard has some plants in good condition it should be easier to sell right? Besides, aren’t people with kids looking for houses at the end of the school year so that they can get settled before their child’s new school year starts?

September … yeah I can see houses selling in September but it’s probably less likely that a family with school aged children would buy at that time of year … well unless the parents were moving to the city for a job or something.

Actually maybe this works in our favor. Since we can hear our neighbors much too well it might be good if people who don’t have children buy the house next door. Believe me – we call our neighbors child, a 13 year old boy who’s on the heavy side two tons of fun! No we aren’t really picking on him because he’s a little overweight … it’s just because he’s so loud! He bangs up and down the stairs and when he was younger I swear he used to jump up and down on the couch. Bang, bAng, BaNg! So noisy!

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Moving or Organizing, The Neighborhood Tagged With: buy, children, couch, Family, house, July, moving, neighbor, neighbors, noisy, plant, Real Estate, real estate market, selling house in September

It’ll be quiet around here soon

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

Haha! I think it’s going to be a little quieter around here for a while! Our noisy neighbors are going on vacation! An orlando vacation. Yeah!

I think they are leaving sometime next week and they’ll be gone for at least a week. No more karaoke parties for a while! No more tuba or electric guitar vibrating through my walls. Yeahhhhh!

Then, as I said the other day, they might also be moving! They’re going to put their house up for sale sometime in September to test the market. Oh I hope that they get an offer or two! Their house is a corner lot which I’ve heard are harder to sell, but then they have almost twice the yard space of everyone else in the neighborhood so that might help them sell.

Oh I can’t wait for them to go on their holiday and then maybe move away.

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Socializing, The Neighborhood, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: going on holiday, guitar, holiday, house, house for sale, karaoke, moving, neighbor, neighbors, noisy, Orlando, sell house, tuba, vacation

We used to make popcorn all the time

August 6, 2007 by Tricia

I was puttering around cleaning our kitchen cupboards the other day and I came across and appliance we haven’t used for a long time. It was our popcorn machine. We got it as a wedding present way back in 1994!

We used to have movie nights and make popcorn fairly often, but we haven’t used the popcorn machine for a few years now.

When I found the machine that had been tucked into a back corner of a cupboard I thought about making some popcorn for Chris. I can’t eat it myself these days since it aggravates my crohns, but Chris would have enjoyed it if I had made up some popcorn.

Trouble is, if I made some I’d want to eat it. Popcorn was a popular snack on night shifts when I was working at the hospital. It used to drive me nuts when I’d smell it knowing I couldn’t have any. I’m sure it’d do the same if I made some in my own house!

Do you have a popcorn machine? Do you use it?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation Tagged With: Chris, crohn, crohns, eat, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, house, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, kitchen, make popcorn, movie, movie night, night, pain, popcorn, popcorn machine, snack, wedding gift

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