Thanksgiving

On Wednesday we headed off to Vallejo to visit family for Thanksgiving which was being hosted at my Mom's house. The next morning we headed to Sacramento to pick up my mother-in-law so she could take place in the celebration, and what a trip that turned out to be! The traffic was terrible so it took us a few hours to get there. Once there we used the computer to plot a course back that avoided as many of the accidents as possible, and that worked pretty well. There was hardly any traffic when we took her back to Sacramento late that night. We tried to fill up the tank at Safeway before heading back to Vallejo, but there were padlocks on all of the hoses. On Friday we didn't to much but hang around the house. We took a look at my Mom's record player to find out why the volume was so low, and a little research online told us that it needed a pre-amplifier, so we ordered one of those. Later that night my Mom taught me how to play cribbage. On Saturday I visited both of my grandparents with my Dad. This was also American Express' Small Business Saturday so we all went out and took advantage of that. We headed home after breakfast on Sunday. It was a nice trip. Today I hooked up the subwoofer that I got from Grant, and wow does it make a difference!

Visiting Friends in Red Bluff

Today we went to Red Bluff to visit Treese's friend from work and her husband. They gave us a bunch of old computers he had from various projects that he was just going to throw away. Most of them were missing RAM and hard drives, but I'll see which ones I can put together in working condition. They also gave us an old subwoofer for the computer, a old computer chair, and a box of old SNES games. I'm already liking the computer chair, as my old one was pretty warn, and the arm rests on this chair are lower so I can scoot the chair closer to my desk.

Immortals 3D

We went to see Immortals 3D in XD 3D, and thanks to my BloodHeroes certificate, we didn't have to pay those outrageous prices. Treese enjoyed it, while I just thought it was okay.

Subwoofer

The 5 pack of fuses that I ordered for my subwoofer arrived today, so I installed one, put the subwoofer back together, and that got it working again. It's nice to be able to feel the rumbling of movie explosions.

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

We went to see A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas this evening with our friends, Ray and Dawn. We got in using my blood money (movie passes from donating blood). When I tried to actually get the tickets, the lady wouldn't sell them to me because she said everyone needed to be there to show their IDs since it was rated R. What? Isn't that the point of the NC-17 rating? That only people 17 and over were allowed in? I though for R-rated movies only one person in the group had to be of age.

New Power

I bought a computer power supply off of Craigslist today so that I could put it in a computer which was giving me a problem coming out of sleep mode, and the new power supply fixed the problem. But the power supply is 650W gaming power supply which is a little overkill, so I think I'll just buy the 350W one that is supposed to come with this computer and then sell that 650W one.

Oil Change & TiVo Glitch

Since I did my oil change yesterday, today I took Treese's car in. Doing them around the same time just makes it easier to remember when they both need to be done. On the way home I stopped by the eyeglass place to pick out some glasses. I don't really need a new pair, but insurance pays for them once every couple years so might as well take advantage of it. There were only a couple frames that insurance would cover completely, so I just went with the same style of frames I currently have. We had a weird TiVo glitch happen this evening. While watching a prerecorded show, all of a sudden the screen went black for a few seconds, then a video feed from the Redding channel came through for a couple seconds, and finally the video feed switched back to live TV of whatever channel the TiVo was currently on. It freaked us out the first time it happened, and yes, I said first time. Because it continued to happen all night. Eventually I noticed a pattern, that it was happening every hour at four minutes past the hour. Some testing revealed that the Redding channel video feed was coming through on both tuners, it would show up when I had live TV on and when I then when I pushed play on the program being recorded on the other tuner I saw that it had recorded one second of the Redding video feed at four minutes in. Talk about weird.

Oil Change

Took my car in for an oil change today, but turns out it didn't need it. They said the oil had absolutely no discoloration so they just put it back. While I was in the waiting room, I started reading 1984 by George Orwell. I didn't make it very far into the book but already I'm finding it interesting.

In Time

Treese bought me a blanket while she was out shopping with her friend this morning. It's for when we're on the couch, and it's really soft, lightweight, and warm... actually very similar to my current blanket, except this one is big enough to cover my whole body! Now I don't have to choose between covering my feet or my chest. Later on in the afternoon the three of us, plus another of Treese's friends who met us at the theater, went to see In Time. Not a masterpiece of a movie but we enjoyed it well enough.

No More Spirit

When I woke up this morning I found that Treese had turned the heater on. I'm actually surprised we were able to wait this long, as it's already November! Treese stopped by the Spirit Halloween story afterword to see if she could find out their hours, but again they were closed, and apparently there was a missed delivery FedEx note on the door from around 1pm so I guess nobody had been there all day. Man, they sure close up shop fast after Halloween!

Puss In Boots

I went to Radio Shack this afternoon to pick up some fuses for our subwoofer, but unfortunately they didn't have what I needed. No place in Redding seems to have the right fuse, so I just ended up ordering them online. We went to see Puss In Boots in 3D, and we both thought it was a great movie. Afterward we headed over to a friend's to pick up some Menudo. On the way home we drove by the Spirit Halloween store to see what their hours were because we wanted to get some great deals on their clearance items before they went away, but they were closed with no hours posted.