You dont realize the differance a subwoofer makes in your Home Theater until it is gone. The depth it provides, the extra little thump when needed. THe music just sounds blah. Almost hollow, I cant wait to get it back. Hopefully it isn’t anything major, and my friend Steve will be able to get it fixed. Sofar he said, he thinks a blown fuse. Trouble is nobody sells the fuse for it. Hopefully there isn’t anything else wrong with it or my receiver isn’t causing it to blow fuses…Well I cant actually say that. I am sorta hoping my receiver needs to be replaced. I would really like to pick up a nice used Rotel unit. New preferred, however, I cant afford a new Rotel. At least not yet.
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
Sorry its been a while since posting. I have just been SOOOO busy. Typically spending my spare moments downstairs working. Not much is going on really. The air is crisp which always puts a spring in my step. I love colder weather. This quarter in school is going to be tuff. A LOT of writing. So please dont expect to many posts till around Christmas. Between both of my classes I will have atleast four writing assignments to work on each week. Although I am excited about my Enviromental Science class. It seems like it is going to be a lot of fun, very intersting, as well as eye opening.
As far as my office downstairs. It is comming along nicely I got the lighting up and wired, It looks VERY nice. However I have one that does not work, and another that hums when I try to dim it. So I will have to look into those before I start putting up any sheet rock. I used recessed lighting so once they are rocked in, you are they better work or you have to cut HUGE wholes into your ceilling. I have my cable outlets wired and in, and most all the framing. The walls are actually in, I just have to build a box in feature to box in my heating duct. So after getting that finished, fixing my two lights that are screwy and putting up my vapor barrier, I should be able to start tossing some rock onto the walls. After that all I have is carpet, trim then paint. So I think I am beyond that half way point. I am so excited to get this finished; I cant wait to have my own office and personal space agian. I haven’t had that since we moved back from Gladstone. Mary took one of the spare bedrooms as a studio for her and the other is the bird room. So I really have no personal space in this house.
Other notes of interest. I think my AV reciever is finally going capoot. Its not pushing any signal to the sub-woofer. Hopefully it is, that will give me a reason to finally upgrade to a nice gently used Rotel unit. If I am able to that, it should make my B&W’s shine rather nicely. I noticed something wasn’t right with the sound. But I couldn’t put my finger on it, until last night when Steve was over and actually said something about the Sub not working. Then the bell went off in my head.
Finally trying to put Steve’s HTPC togather. I think he has a bad MOBO, trouble is he has had this MOBO for a year, and it is out of warrenty even though it has never been used. I got it assembled but I cant get a POST out of it, and no beeps. Everything I have found says its the MOBO. Tell you what, I used be a HUGE ASUS fan, but lately they have really been dissapointing. A lot of bad product lately. Gigabyte however has been rock solid. If I have to order him a new Mobo, we are going with Gigabyte.
Oh and the MacBook Pro, I ended up parting out and putting on Ebay. The service center I took it to wouldn’t fix it. Apperantly it Milk had been spilled on it. How they found that I dont know. But it is what it is. So pulled apart and put on ebay it went. So hopefully I can find another MBP for myself of Mary, because mine is getting really old. Doens’t shut anymore, and just wierd things are happening all the time. It works, just not that well anymore. But I cant complain about a seven year old laptop. It has provided lots of great service, and should still bring a few pennies on the parts market.
Not really getting much done as far as the basement goes, or even cleaning. I did get the grocery’s done. So when I am done with this I will put them away. I am writing and letting some Stevie Ray Vaughn try to motivate me. After this weekend I am just dog tired. I think all the sun just zapped everything out of me. But boy did I sleep well last night…aside for Kendall taking to his waking me up at 2am agian. I don tknow what his deal is. I think maybe he just prefers it outside at night.
Well one more week and school starts agian. Hopefully I can get some sort of room downstairs finished enough for a study/office area. I would like to atleast have the drywall up. But at the pace I am going, and with Mary wanting to have another garage sale this weekend. I dont think so. I really dont want to have a garage sale this weekend. One weekend of waking at the crack of dawn was enough. But oh well.
I better go get those groceries put away.
Ohhh I love Pride and Joy, thats what Stevie is playing now.
Finally HD locals on DirecTV. I am so excited! Now we just need TIVO to come back. Hopefully next summer as it has been rumered.
So sweet, maybe now I can get rid of that second dish in my yard.
…more like moving to Canada as I do right now. A socialized healthcare system would ensure that EVERYBODY in this supposed great nation would have health care, nomatter how sick you are. All those people that have Cancer, MD, AIDS, MS, or whatever they have, wouldn’t have to worry about paying for medical bills, or how to pay for the next treatment that will make them feel just a little bit better for a while.
As most of you know my wife as a disease called Polymiositis. It is a disease that attacks her muscles, with out treatment and medical attention her body would pretty much become useless. I am sick and tired of hearing all these right wing-hate radio personalities say we have the best health care system in the world. I ask how is that? When a person cannot get the medical attention they need with out losing EVERYTHING they own and care for? Such as Mary’s case. We make to much money to be allowed to use Medicaid, because of a family business. Her employer offers health insurance, but cannot offer it to her, because his rates will go up substantially. Her Brother who owns a large company here in Missouri cannot help her because of the same issue. I am a full time studant and have no health insurance myself. So the solution is to use the equity we have built in our home to pay for medical expenses. That is fine that may give us a year of expenses. Yes its that much. And with the housing crush we are in, what then? We lose our home six months after that, with ruined credit. Now we are left with no home, bad credit, no way to get the medical attention we need, and most likely a pending divorce because I as the husband cant provide what my family needs.
The other option is for me to get out of school, forget my dreams of being an architect, and go to work somewhere that will hopefully be a large enough company that the incursion of medical expenses from Mary wont get us dropped after a year(after their benifit renewel) or worse fired because they had to find a way to get Mary off of their policy in an effort to save money.
My question is, it seems like the largest complaint against socialized health care is that people will have to wait longer in the doctors office. Really? Is that such an inconvenience that you would rather deny somebody who needs help or treatment because you dont want to spend an extra 20 minutes in the office?
There really is nothing worse than watching your wife, the person you love most in your life, get worse and worse, and stop doing things that she would normally love because she physically cant do it. All the while knowing that there is no way to pay for treatments she needs for the next year or for the rest of her life, that may provide some sort of relief and life back to her.
All I have to say is that if something is not done about health care and getting it to EVERYBODY in this country, we will be moving to Canada or some place that does provide it to its citizens. Some how some way.
Health Care is NOT a Privilage! Its a RIGHT!
I watched the debates last night, and one thing that I think we were supposed to take away from all the blithering that came from Palin’s mouth was that John McCain is a Maveric. Hmmmmmm I dont think so. Just because he was a pilot doesn’t mean he is Maveric. I lost count on how many times Palin referred to McCain as a Maveric around 30. Does anybody else have a count?
