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Strange Overload message on our Home Theater system

February 26, 2009 by Tricia

I’m starting to think that it’s time that we got a new home theater system. Our stopped working about a year and a half ago. Every time we turn it on it flashes a message that says something about it being overloaded.

We haven’t changed anything with how it’s set up since we installed it three or four years ago, by this I mean we didn’t add any additional equiptment that would be plugged into the home theater system. So it’s strange that it worked for about two years and then suddenly came up with an overloaded message.

It’s an older model, a Panasonic. We’ve tried calling the store where we bought it and they were no help. At first we thought that it might have had a fuse inside it that was blown but after reading the manual and looking the model up online we know that there’s no fuse and I haven’t found any information that will help with our problem.

So I guess it might be time to watch for a good home theater system to go on sale. Over the last few months we’ve looked at some brands when we’ve been in stores that sell them but they’ve been so expensive!

Does anyone know of a good Home theater system that might go for a good price? Or perhaps a cure for our “overload” problem on the Panasonic?

Cat-ertainment

February 11, 2009 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Want to keep your cats from getting bored while you’re away at work? Get some pet mice or hamsters and set up a viewing area ….

These cats look thoroughly entertained don’t they? Now that’s what I call Catertainment!

For the mice or hamsters sake I certainly hope that those cages have secure lids! Otherwise the entertainment might become dinner!

Not a great day

February 9, 2009 by Tricia

I’m nervous about Chris going back to work tomorrow. He’s seemed pretty good since he’s been home from the hospital – only occasionally complaining that he has a funny feeling in his chest or that his lungs feel weird … but the true test will be once he goes back to work. We’ve had so many bad times with his as yet undiagnosed heart problem that I guess it’s natural to worry.

I think the added stress of his illness hasn’t done me any good. My Crohn’s is acting up or else I’ve got a bug. I was up half the night with terrible stomach cramps and pain and it hasn’t been much better throughout the day. Plus my back is bad and I seemed to have hurt my left wrist somehow. Geez, I guess this isn’t the time for either Chris nor I to look into a term life quote! Better to wait until we’re both feeling better I think.

Plus, we’ve been taping shows that are on this evening on our PVR. We had been watching a long movie, but once it was done we started to watch the episode of House that we’d taped only to find that it’s a rerun due to the Presidential address … what Presidential address? It wasn’t listed on our TV’s guide at all. Grrr … so several of the shows we taped tonight are messed up and I had to find them playing later in the evening and retape them. Grrrr.

I guess I’m just grumpy today. I don’t feel well and I can’t even watch the TV show that I wanted to watch.

Just waiting for a Wii related accident

January 23, 2009 by Tricia

I’ve been using my Wii for three days now and wow … I can see how easy it would be to either damage furniture or get hurt on it if you aren’t careful!

The other day I was using the Wii Fit balance board and my toes started to go numb. I don’t have a gel cover for it, but I think this weekend we’ll go out looking for one as I think that will help to make the board more comfortable to use.

I know they have lots of warning in their instructions on each game, but you have to wonder how many people have knocked over lamps or fallen into tables or even the TV as they’ve been playing Wii games in too small rooms. LOL I wonder if those Seattle injury lawyer that I see advertised on TV all the time are getting more business thanks to Wii?

So far my dog has been pretty good when we’ve been using the Wii. She’s really curious about what I’m doing and has tried to jump at the remote in my hand thinking I’m throwing something for her to catch … but for the most part she’ll go and lie down on her bed or the couch if I tell her too.

I’m glad she’s being pretty good about it because I don’t want to have to put her in the crate every time we use the Wii – particularly since I want to use it daily to get in shape. However I can see her jumping at me at the wrong time and causing one of those injuries that I was talking about earlier! Remember I’m a very klutzy person so it would be easy enough for her to jump at me and for me to get off balance or something and crash into the couch and possible knock down other pieces of furniture etc … (watch for a future post with the last topic in the near future!).

If you have a Wii have you had any strange accidents yet?

I’m a Wii Fit newbie

January 21, 2009 by Tricia

I don’t know if you read my other blog, Tricia’s Musings, but last week I finally made my very first purchase at eBay. I’ll bet that most of you reading this have purchased things on eBay before, but I never had … maybe because I live in Canada and every time I found something I liked the cost of shipping and possible duty taxes dissuaded me from making a bid.

I’d been wanting to get a Wii Fit for some time, but as you probably know most of the stores are sold out so I decided to check out eBay last Monday and I found a Wii Fit for sale in New Brunswick (an Eastern Province). The price was only a little higher than what I’d pay in a retail store so I took a chance, made a bid and with only a few minutes left in the auction I sat back to wait and see if someone else would bid or if I’d win. Guess what? I won!

Unfortunately since I’m a complete newbie to the whole Wii phenomena I didn’t realize that I needed the console in order to use Wii Fit. Duh! Well what do you expect when you’ve only ever seen displays in stores but haven’t even seen the boxes since they’re all sold out? LOL

Had I known I would have bought a combo pack, but as it was I discovered within an hour of my Wii Fit auction win that I needed the console so off I went back to eBay to look for a Wii console. I found one at a semi decent price that included an extra remote, extra nunchuck and the Wii Play game.

The Wii fit that I’d bought arrived last Friday but I had to wait until Monday afternoon before the Wii console arrived! (it was coming from Calgary) So I’ve only been playing with my new Wii and Wii Fit for two days now. So far so good, but I really have to work on my balance! I’ve been really sick for three years and I was just diagnosed with extremely low Vitamin D levels so that has caused my muscles to be extremely weak (the vit d deficiency I mean).

The Wii Fit will hopefully help me get my muscles back in shape, but I probably won’t be truly fit until my vitamin D levels get back up into the normal range (could take a year!).

I’d like to get another sensor so that I can use the Wii on the TV we have upstairs. We’ve been thinking of getting an LCD mount so that we can attach that TV to the wall. Once we do that we’ll have more room in the bedroom and that would make a good area to exercise or play games too.

Do you have a Wii? or a Wii Fit? How do you like it? I’ve only tried bowling, tennis and boxing in Wii Sports so far and of the 9 games on Wii Play I only like the Billiards. I’d eventually like to get some other games.

I’ve been looking at Wii Winter Sports and Wii Ski – does anyone have those? Are they worth getting?

What other “active” games do you like?

I’d love to hear your suggestions and of your experiences with Wii.