Sometimes its just too much

Lucy, the sweet old tortoise cat that came from upstate New York just didn't make it at the new place. She raised such a ruckus that Sue was ready to toss her through a closed siding glass door. At 4am I loaded her up and took her home to the old place (about a block away). She is much happier despite the chaos at home.

My DVD recorder has been slowly biting the big one. Today I was getting no picture at all except for a flash of a picture. That jsut wouldn't do with a Sunday of football ahead. So... I waited until 11 when Best Buy opened. Then I sorted the possiblites.. with an eye to the future. I settled on a Panasonic.. their menus are torturous. I am resolved to master it. Anyone who has tried to figure this mess knows the maze that awaited me. The DVD player must have an SVideo input.. since we are not a High Definition family.. yet.. and then translate the signal so that the components can read the requirements and give me a picture on my ED TV. So inputs are critical. Everytime there is a change in set up, one has to rotate the inputs so that component part of the signal is read by the TV. If the DVD player is not on doing this translation (not passively like the old VHS players did) you aren't going to see jack squat or any of his relatives on TV. I figured it out to see the end of the Raiders game and further how to record some of the sorry 49ers game. They lost to the Seahawks. The Raiders soundly beat the Dolphins.. on the ground no less.

So a new week starts. A shout out to my sister Kelly who has a birhday on the third. I will memorialize my story about her birth and her early years as the week progresses. She has always been more than a sister to me. A very good friend too. I hope my daughters will stay as close as they are now with each other and how I am with Kelly.

I just finished listening to Eventide by Kent Haruf. He is a wonderful writer. Listening to books allow you to hear a story even when the light it low. I also enjoyed this week's This American Life's podcast.

Trisha Yearwood has a new single out.. Heaven, Hearthache and the Power of Love. I downloaded it as part of my Emusic.com subscription. They have started an audiobook service too. So far there hasn't been anything that I couldn't live without in their lineup. Many of their books are classics.

The ipod was ripping out the songs from the musical "On A Clear Day You can See Forever." This one didn't have Babs in it.

Have a great week... as mom says.. get all A's.

Love
Pat