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Watching old shows on TV

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I’m not feeling so hot today so I’ve just been lying down and watching TV for a good portion of the day. Unfortunately there really isn’t much on.

For a while I was watching Melrose Place. You know, I never did get into watching that show back when it was one of the hot shows on TV and I still couldn’t get into it. For some reason some of the characters were walking around dressed in what appeared to be equestrian clothing. They weren’t riding horses so I have no idea why they were dressed that way.

I do like watching some of the old shows on TV … Archie Bunker in All in the Family is usually funny. It’s amazing to think how bad attitudes were in the 70’s when you see shows like that or the Jefferson’s, Good Times and so on.

Actually when I’ve been watching the old shows – even reruns of Rosanne I’ve been having fun spotting actors that are in current shows or who’ve made it big in movies like George Clooney and many others.

Do you ever watch old TV shows? Spot any familiar faces?





We still don’t have an iPod

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Sometimes i find it hard to believe that neither Chris or I have ipods. Unbelievable isn’t it? I bet that the majority of you reading this have at least one iPod or some other type of portable MP3 player in your home.

I keep thinking we should get one. I mean, now that we have the dog it would be nice to have an iPod to listen to as we take our dog on long walks. It might also come in handy on long car rides as Chris and I sometimes have very different tastes in music. At least if we had an iPod we’d each be able to listen to whatever we wanted between the car stereo and the iPod.

I guess I’ll keep an eye out for sales. Any tips as to which iPod is the best one to get? We’d really only use it for music – I think.

My laptop is getting slower

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My laptop is getting slower and slower! I can barely stand to use it anymore. I’m only using about 40% of the hard drive and I’ve defraged recently but that didn’t help. Perhaps I need to get more laptop memory? I just don’t know.

What I do know is that I’m a prolific photographer and for most of the last year I’ve uploaded all of the digital photos that I take onto my laptop. Prior to this I usually uploaded my photos onto the desktop computer, but I rarely use that computer these days so the laptop is the main computer now. I thought that maybe all those photos were tying up the hard drive so I spent at least two hours this afternoon transferring photo folders to my desktop computer and then deleting the folder on the laptop.

I still have to transfer quite a few photo folders, but I do think the laptop is a little more responsive now. Perhaps freeing up more of the hard drive and getting more memory will help.

Anyone else have any other ideas?

Need to find better ways to cool our home

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Now that it’s finally get warm outside here in Toronto I’ve come to realize that we need to find a better way to keep the house cool in the summer.

We have window air conditioners, but they seem to only cool half the house. If I go upstairs into the non- air conditioned spare bedroom on the south side of the house it’s almost as hot as if we didn’t have any air conditioning at all. Same for our kitchen which also faces south.

I have curtains in the kitchen and a roman blind in the spare bedroom, but I’m thinking about getting some wood blinds so that I can use them to block some of the strong sunlight that comes into both of those rooms in the morning and early afternoon.

I figure if I can keep those two rooms a little cooler the rest of the house will be cooler too and perhaps we might even be able to turn the air conditioning down a notch or two.

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