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I luv my DVR

January 2, 2007 by Tricia

I’m pretty sure that I’ve mentioned in the past that I have a DVR. In case you aren’t sure what a DVR is, it’s a Digital Video Recorder. You might know it by names such a TIVO. I rent mine through my cable provider Rogers Cable, but since not everyone uses Rogers you might get one from companies such as DirectTV or other large cable and satellite television providers.

We used ours this past weekend to record some of the World Junior Hockey Championship – which of course it appears Canada is winning. HA! Some of the games were early, and others fell when my husband was out of town at his families home so he wanted to record them so that he could see the full games, and also because his brother and nephew from Chicago were coming here for a visit. They’re a hockey loving family so having some pre-recorded games on the DVR was great. They sat around watching hockey games last night. (I fell asleep on the couch- oh well).

When the regular TV season is upon us – like next week when shows like 24 start up, when Lost Returns and when all the regulars that we’ve been watching since September like House, Desperate Housewives, all the CSI’s etc come back on I’ll be using my DVR to record the programs. You see many of the shows that both my husband and I like to watch are on at the same time. Without a DVR we’d be out of luck as far as catching both shows. My DVR also comes in handy when I go out of town or when I’m working (I know I’m off sick now, but when I was working) because I would never miss my favorite shows. Even if I came home at midnight I could still sit and watch all the shows that I love and skip the commercials too by using my remote to fast forward through them.

Who else has a DVR or Tivo? Do you love it? If you don’t have a DVR and want to learn more about these amazing digital recorders you can get more info on the DVR Websites listed on this page. I think it would be a good item to have in your home if you have kids or if you have a busy lifestyle.

The DVR actually begins to record every show that you watch. So if the phone rings while you are watching your favorite show you can use your remote and put the show on pause, take your call, or put your kids to bed, and then come back and hit play and your show will begin where you left off. Or if you forget to do that you can rewind back to where you left off.

I Love it!





Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: cable, digital video recorder, DVR, never miss a show, play, record favorite shows, rewind, Television, TIVO, Video, watch

Good advice found on Small business blog

December 31, 2006 by Tricia

Someone made a comment on one of my recent posts, I think it was my last Thursday Thirteen, that they’d love to find a way to make money at home. I agree, I’d also love to find a way to run a successful small business, preferably from my own home and make enough money to live on, if not more.

Well, the Small business blog may be able to help some of use with some ideas. One of their recent posts titled “Home based business Trends in 2007” lists a number of ideas for small businesses that I hadn’t even thought about.

I’ve only just started reading the blog but I can already see that it’s going to be an asset. I’m going to bookmark it and revisit it to read the latest posts. Some topics that I’ve found interesting and helpful have been ones about small business taxes, articles of successful small businesses and of course the home based business trend post that I mentioned earlier.

Check this site out if you want to start a small business of your own.

Filed Under: Employment, Home and Lifestyle, Make Money, Website Promotion Tagged With: advice, business, home based business, idea, ideas, Make Money, small business, small business blog, work at home

Enjoy the luxury of a wake up call

December 31, 2006 by Tricia

You know one of the things that I absolutely love when I travel and stay in a hotel? It’s the wake up call that you can get the people at the desk to give in the morning. I get tired easy when I travel and I always worry if I’ll wake up on time. Oh sure I bring my own little travel alarm clock with me, but it’s failed a few times – just plain didn’t work. If I’m traveling and I simply have to get up I can’t be relying on an alarm that may or may not work. Same thing with the hotel room alarm clocks – they don’t always work well either. So I ask for a wake up call. It’s so nice.

Do you agree that wake up calls are nice? Maybe even that they’ve saved your butt a few times? Yeah I thought so.

I bet that you’ve even thought that it’d be nice to have a wake up call at home sometimes too? I’m lucky, if I sleep in my husband usually wakes me up, but if he’s already gone to work or if he’s out of town? Yeah – I’ve been late for work because I’ve slept through the alarm. luckily that’s only happened once or twice, but still, you just feel awful when that happens.

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that you can have a wake up call at home if you want to. Yes, I’m not pulling your leg. There’s a site that you can go to, it’s located at Snoozester.com . This site provides a service that will provide you with wake up calls anywhere, any place, any time.

Just log into the site and sign up for an account. Once you’re registered you can start scheduling your wake up calls. You can schedule the wake up calls to go to any phone number or cell phone that you’d like. You just register and an account, add in your phone number and perhaps your cell number and start schedule wake up calls. It’s that easy. You can even choose to have your wake up calls delivered to you by Snoozester Characters. The characters are fun voices that greet you when you answer the wake up call. You can select from a number of Character voices whenever you schedule a wake up call.

Then there’s a service called Secure Awake – it’s for people that know they don’t wake up easily. This feature tells Snoozester to repeatedly telephone you until you answer the phone. It will call you every three minutes for 20 minutes. When you answer you can select number 1 to confirm that you are awake, or push number 2 to tell snoozester to let you sleep for a while longer and call you back.

The site is very easy to use – just follow the steps in the registration process, and then follow the step by step process to begin scheduling your wake up calls. You get 10 free wake up calls when you sign up with Snoozester. You can sign up for a variety of packages that provide you with a certain number of calls per month. The packages range from 3.99 to 14.99 per month. They even have gift certificates available in case you know someone who could really use this service.

You can learn more about this service by reading through their site or by visiting their sleep blog. Also, if you own or work for a large company with employees that might need regular wake up calls you can visit their Corporate Snoozester site. Contact their customer service if you have questions that aren’t answered on their site, they promise to reply very quickly.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Services, Shopping, Web and Technology Tagged With: customer service, hotel, schedule wake up calls, secure, sleep, Snoozester, tired, travel, visiting, wake up call at home, wake up call to any phone

Want a link on my site?

December 29, 2006 by Tricia

How would you like me to link to your site in a blog post? My site currently has quite a high rank on Technorati – it’s 990, which I suppose is pretty good considering that Technorati is said to list something like 50 million blogs. Tricia’s Musings is also listed in Truth Laid Bare with a rank of 60. My sites page rank is a PR4 on Google, but I expect that it will increase when Google updates page ranks in February or March.

What I’m offering is a link in a blog post, however it comes with a small catch.

I’d like to get more links for my new blog Celebrity Scoop, and for what has now become my husband Chris’ blog Odd Planet. Both of these sites desperately need some linky love, and of course the best way to link to others is to have a link in an article or a blog post.

So here’s the deal:

1. Include a link to Celebrity Scoop and Odd Planet in one of your blog postings.

You can discuss the sites, or simply mention them in passing in a post – I don’t care which you do. Feel free to mention Tricia’s Musings as well if you’d like as that will help increase this sites rank as well, and when I link to you that will benefit your site in the future.

2. Once you have written a post that includes links to Celebrity Scoop and Odd Planet let me know and I’ll include a link to your site in one of my posts. I may do a post linking to several sites at the same time if a lot of people decide to help me out, or I may write about each site in it’s own post.

What do you say? Help me out?

Here’s a little bit of information about the two sites that I’d like you to link to:

Celebrity Scoop http://feverishthoughts.com/celebrity/ This site is fairly new and I’m still working on the best way to write the celebrity gossip articles. Celebrity Scoop discusses the latest celebrity news – read about what your favorite stars are doing,and where they are going- celebrity hot spots, night clubs, movies premieres, award nominations and award shows. I also hope to have regular articles about the latest fashion trends, and favorite products used by the stars.

Odd Planet http://feverishthoughts.com/oddplanet/ Odd Planet is a humor/ entertainment blog that brings you odd new stories, stories about dumb criminals, and strange people. You’ll also find a good number of funny pictures and videos on the site as well.

Filed Under: Linky Love, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, free, free link, link, Linky Love, my sites, offer, page rank, post, posts

My Single Mom Life

December 29, 2006 by Tricia

I’d like to tell you about a blogger that I’ve recently met on the Pay/perp0st forums. Her name is Kat. last week when I was busy hunting down puzzle pieces for the contest that pay/perp0st was holding I kept running into her site, My Single Mom Life, as I searched.

Just as I did with some of the other blogs that I came across as I feverishly went from site to site in search of elusive puzzle pieces, I’d stop and read her posts. Yes, the writing and the content of the posts were interesting enough to make me stop and read even as I battled to win $1000.

Now, since I’ve only just discovered her site I don’t know all that much about her, but I’m sure that will change as I plan to continue visiting her site. What I do know is that she is a single mom caring for two teenaged boys. She’s stuck at home like I am, recovering from spinal fusion surgery, and doing her best to provide for her family on a fixed income.

I believe that she mentioned in one of her forum posts that she’s been blogging for 10 or 11 years! That’s a long time to have been blogging. She’s moved her site around a few times, so her blog, My Single Mom Life, only goes back to 2004.

She’s quite active in the blogging community from what I can see. She’s participated in the Crazy Hip Mamas Blogging Carnivals, The p0stie blog carnival, and memes like Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt and Thursday Thirteen.

Kat also writes about a wide variety of topics – one look at her categories and you’ll see that she’s discussed everything from family to movies and music, politics, religion, food, customer service, and quite a number of posts about Hurricanes. I suppose the hurricane posts are only natural seeing as she lives in Florida. She must be happy that this past year wasn’t quite as bad as the last few years.

I think you’ll enjoy Kat’s site. Why don’t you go visit her and tell her that Tricia sent you.

Filed Under: Linky Love, Web and Technology Tagged With: blogger, community, florida, good writing, Kat, Meme, My Single Mom Life, wide variety of topics

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