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Our cable has sick signal syndrome

November 7, 2006 by Tricia

Yes, our cable – you know the stuff that brings in television stations, the internet and sometimes even internet telephone – is sick. I’m so sad.

The cable guy came over today. He arrived at about 12 noon. Right away he knew that we had a serious problem. The signal was very very weak … and our channels … *sob* were about to go to digital heaven.

The surgeon technician had arrived just in time. He continued to monitor the signal but it continued to be weak. There was a signal in but no signal out – it was … dying. We had sick signal syndrome. Outside he went and he got to work installing a new pacemaker cable box.

It was touch and go for a while. We thought we were going to lose the patient signal all together. Then, the worst happened. My cable modem red lined! No internet connection at all. The doctor technician went back to the pacemaker cable box and discovered there was a corroded cable connection outside. The wire was replaced.

Finally after three hours, the signal grew stronger and the internet came back online. Our system is still very weak, and needs medicine a service call to the area to fix the service trunk to strengthen the overall signal.

As long as the pacemaker whatever he did keeps working we’ll be online and be able to watch and record our favorite shows on the PVR, and then once the medicine kicks in service call is complete we should be out of the woods and back to normal again.

If by chance I disappear for a while, well you’ll know that the pacemaker cable guys work failed. We’ll be back after the transplant service is restored.

Cross your fingers that everything keeps working!





Filed Under: Recreation, Services, Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: cable signal, cable TV, Digital, digital tv, Internet, no internet, service call, Tech, Television, weak signal

My TV cable is messed up!

November 7, 2006 by Tricia

I’m mad at my TV or the cable company. I’m not sure who I’m mad at because I’m not sure who’s fault it is. Since there are a lot of shows on TV these days that we are interested in watching, but either don’t have time to watch or can’t watch because they are on at the same time, we’ve been recording them onto our PVR (personal video recorder).

A few times over the last week when we’ve been watching shows that we taped earlier in the evening or even a few days before we’ve been unable to watch the show. It’s all pixilated, digital grinding noise and just unbearable to watch or even listen to because you can’t make out the words. When this happened last night we called the cable company. We thought that maybe something was wrong with the channel that we were taping it from, but the cable company said that it’s a signal problem and if we don’t get it taken care of it will spread to our other stations.

The cable companies coming in to take a look today. I hope they can fix the problem. I also hope that we don’t end up having to get a new PVR (supplied from cable company) or else we’ll lose the shows I have stored up on it.

So that’s why I’m mad, I missed a few shows that I really like ’cause of that signal. Boo Hoo!

Filed Under: Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: cable, cable TV, Digital, signal, signal trouble, station, TV, Video, watch, watching

My right had is numb

November 7, 2006 by Tricia

I don’t know what I did but since midnight or Sunday night/ early Monday morning the outer part of my right hand has been numb. I’m left handed so you’d think this would have happened to my left hand, but I guess not.

The numbness isn’t as bad now as it was last night but it’s still there.

Do you think maybe I’ve been writing too much lately? Uh yeah, I think I might be. Believe it or not I didn’t write very much today. Honest. I only wrote 8 posts (plus answering email of course). That’s not too bad. Yesterday though, I made a number of back up posts – maybe 20 back up posts plus wrote at least 15 that got posted. No wonder my hand went numb huh?

I’m going to let my hand have a rest now. Hopefully it will it be better later today!

Oh I almost forgot, Neil Crespi wanted me to look at his site – I like this site design for a blogger blog, and the site has potential, but it needs more posts. I’d be happy to help you work on your design if you contact me. You’re about me descriptions pretty interesting.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology Tagged With: blogs, design, keyboard, left handed, numb hand, posting, too much, too much typing, typing, Writing, writing too much

I could get addicted to these videos

November 3, 2006 by Tricia

As you’ve probably noticed I’ve made a few videos of my own that I’ve posted to the site lately – well Wednesday and Thursday. Did you see them? If you didn’t you should check out my turtle race video – you can see my turtles and hear my voice if you do. Sorry I didn’t make an appearance in that one. Maybe next time. Maybe.

‘ve been using my digital camera to make the videos. It’s really easy. I just make the video, upload it onto my computer, then I open up Windows movie maker import the video into it, do a bit of editing and ta da! I can upload it to youtube for all to see. I can’t do this as easily with any videos that I’ve made with my cellphone. It saves the videos into a format with the extension 3gp. Windows Movie maker doesn’t accept that file type. I have to use another program to convert it to avi first. It’s a pain in the ass.

This is opening up new possibilities for me know that I know how easy it is to make videos. Stay tuned you might start to see some crazy stuff here. LOL

Oh and if anyone knows of any easy to use programs that convert 3gp video to avi or mpeg I’d love to hear about it. Thanks.

Filed Under: Graphics, Recreation, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: 3gp, Digital, digital camera, making videos, mpeg, nokia cell phone, spaz, Video, windows movie maker

Ode to Spam

November 2, 2006 by Tricia

I do not like them in my mailbox.
I do not like the ones that talks.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and spam.
I do not like them, Spam be damn.

Filed Under: Humor, Web and Technology Tagged With: mailbox, ode to spam, Spam

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