Saturday, September 26, 2009

Helicopters?







While at Grandma's today we got to enjoy our own airshow! Apparently someone decided to do touch and goes at the local school, just a few blocks away. Here we are watching all of the fun. (Please note: Peter's laptop is only participating because he has a thesis project with a deadline coming up fast.)

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Just in time to move!

After about 5 years of overgrowth and neglect, mom's fountain again looks wonderful!! Here's a little before and after (You'll have click on the before picture to get the full effect). It took all summer to do, but it was well worth it. The only lame part is I have to move away for my last semester of school, so I've only had about a week to enjoy it. :-( We'll just have to wait till next year. We can get mom's fountain going and maybe get one of our own! (P.S. - Me, the nerd, is de-commandeering the blog back to my wife now that I am back in school. I highly doubt I will have time to do any updates for the next 4 months. So if you want updates, bug my wife :-)



Saturday, August 15, 2009

Look Babe, I fixed it!!




Yes, we bought a new(to us) car. That's a saga all in itself, you'll have to ask about that one in person. However, it came with a nifty media package, but the audio of the DVD player didn't come through the car speakers, it only went to the wireless headphones. But the previous owners said it used to work and they aren't sure why it stopped. So now that we officially own the thing, I dove in to see what was the matter. The hardest part, of course, was getting the blasted factory radio out of the dash. I even googled how to remove it but the explanation I found didn't warn of the fact that if you push the hidden tabs the wrong way you'll actually engage an anti-theft feature that makes it even harder to get out. RRRR!!!!

Once I got past that issue, the cause of the problem literally fell on the floor. It ended up being the plastic fuse holder that goes to the inline FM transmitter. It was cracked and not connecting the two ends together. So the DVD audio never got transmitted into the radio because the FM transmitter never got power.

So we are now a new fuse holder away from melting our kids brains while driving in the car!!! Now we can play the "Name the movies playing in the cars on the freeway" game in both directions. Oh, and I think the radio looks better this way. This look is IN!