Real Hooks for Christmast Lights

Our friend Dawn stopped by today to drop off some hooks to attach Christmas lights along the rain gutters of the house. I had previously used makeshift hooks from Chritmas Tree ornament hooks. Not the best choice, but they worked if it wasn't to windy. The real hooks work way better! We also had the Charter Cable guy come out today to fix a problem we were having with our cable card where HBO and Cinemax channels would display nothing but a cable card information screen. All he did when he got here is call someone up and read him some of the numbers off of the screen. Really? And I couldn't have just done that?

Surround Sound

I finally got around to hooking up left and right surround speakers so that we could have 5.1 surround sound. I did it at night so haven't really gotten to experience it yet.

Darth Vader Blankets

Treese was gone when I woke up this morning. She was out with her friend at the new Twilight movie. I called Charter and got our rates reduced. In addition to reduced rates, the promotion they gave me included free HBO and Cinemax for a year. I'll take them if they're free but I wouldn't spend money on them. Treese and her friend went shopping after the movie, and she bought two really cool Darth Vader blankets which are large and very soft.

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.