Merry Christmas everyone! My wife got me some awesome stuff this year! She was able to track me down the first season of the Muppet Show on DVD as well as the first 5 episodes of Inspector Gadget on DVD! That’s in addition to the 160GB hard drive and dual tuner card for the MythTV! […]

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I have completed one of my most treasured Christmas rituals… watching “A Christmas Story”. I love this movie and I make it a point to watch at least one showing during the “24 hours of A Christmas Story” that TBS does each year. I stick to this so devoutly that my aunt actually got me […]

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Today Tasha and I hosted her family for Christmas Eve lunch. Her dad, grandpa, and brother came over and we had sandwiches and opened some gifts. It was a pretty nice time, we don’t spend much time with her side and it was good for a change of pace. In about an hour, we are […]

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Not only does MythTV work, it works well. I can now see the limitations of standard definition TV, as well as composite inputs. The high def-ining of my MythTV will commence very soon.

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Some wiley coworkers turned me on to w00t.com, where they sell some overstocked bargain product until its gone every day. Sometimes this stuff is crap, other times its awesome. Yesterday (Wednesday), they had a Gyration keyboard and mouse suite for $50. These things work great with Fedora Core, or so the forums say, and that […]

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Tomorrow my big screen TV arrives. The installation guys from Shermans are calling me after their first job starts at 8 o’clock. They suspect that will be near 10 am. I told the guy on the phone that I had a finished basement and they may have some trouble running the cabling, he said that […]

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Tonight we gave Sensei Hartman his Christmas present at the Mapleton dojo. It was a very small class tonight, only a handful of yellow belts, a smattering of blue belts, , McCabe, Erbe, Garls and myself. The class got off to a very basic start, we did a few in-place basics focusing on making the […]

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This morning I was driving down Rte 29 to Peoria and the trees were all encased in ice. It looked really cool when the sunrise hit them… I would’ve taken a picture if I had my camera and it wasn’t 10 degrees.

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Last night and her boyfriend Brian came over to help assess the situation for cabling my TV/MythTV/speakers setup. Turns out the prognosis was not as good as we would’ve hoped. It appears that my rafters run the wrong way in my basement, so I’m forced to run my speaker wires under the carpet upstairs. This […]

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With the Christmas shopping done, I’m finally starting to get into the holiday spirit. The tree isn’t seeing too much decoration this year, as it is going to get moved on Thursday in order for the big screen to get moved in. Maybe afterwards, it will be time to deck the halls. We got to […]

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