New Shelves, No Cable Guy, and a Failed Egreat Update

We tried to go see the 11:30am showing of Prince of Persia this morning, but once we were on the road we realized there was no way we'd make it in time, so instead we went to this place called Junk 'N Treasures and looked around. Ended up getting a nice little wooden shelf for the laundry room and a white wire shelf thing for the hall closet, all for the low price of $1.00. Unfortunately, didn't see any poster frames that were the right size.

Cable guy was supposed to arrive today to take care of the "equipment upgraded needed" notice we got in the mail, but he called and wasn't sure what he was coming over to do, and when he found out we had a cable card he said those are rare and they don't just carry cable cards on them and they aren't able to pick up any on Sunday so he'd have to reschedule. So we did reschedule, but all this just felt odd to me, so I decided to call the number on the mailer again. I was connected with some guy and he put me on hold to check out the promo code I gave him from the mailer, and that hold somehow turned into an automated message telling me about our appointment, at which point it hung up on me.

So I called back and got a girl this time, and after she took some time to investigate, she said that the upgrade the mailer was referring to only meant that people with TiVo units would no longer be able to record some programs, such as Pay Per View or music, and that no equipment upgrade was needed. So yey, now we don't have to wait around for a cable guy and have him touching and messing up all our equipment.

Moved the bedroom TV onto the new TV stand, but since the new stand was about an inch and a half shorter than the desk the TV was on, we stacked some old wood shelves I had, put them into two black pillowcases, and put the TV on top of that, which raised it about another four inches.

Tried to update the firmware for my EG-M34A Networked Media Tank, but after the update non of my DVDs would play! Not only that, but attempting to play them would lock up the machine so that rebooting was the only way to get it back. Thankfully, downgrading to the firmware that was previously installed got everything working as normal.