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I got the Peter Gabriel CD "Security" for myself.
It has the ownzalesque track "Shock the Monkey"
Does heartburn count?
I got the Peter Gabriel CD "Security" for myself.
It has the ownzalesque track "Shock the Monkey"
I got a Mookie doll.
Time off from the crazy Christmas shoppers and sweet sleep! =)
a mookie doll
I keep telling you but you won't listen . . . Vapor Rub.Take Vicks Nyquil or Theraflu!
New cookware YAY
An ... interesting ... plate that I'm going to have to find some place to display when the giver visits.
New quilted-type duffel bag
Money that will get used on a griddle, grill pan, and wine-tasting later in January.
Lingerie money (disguised as a Nordstrom's gift card)
go to a clinic, TAMAFLU
Will knock it out in a matter of minutes.
cats breath
i got a real cool digital camera (you guys can look forward to me posting random ass photo's now), lots of gift vouchers, head phones ( i have no idea why though), a shower radio, a nice pair of Kswiss denely ( really cool because kswiss are really hard to find in new zealand), a fake ginobilli jersey, chocolate, movie vouchers (already used it to see the worlds fastest indian), a pair of rip curl shorts, and a shirt. pretty good when you think about it.
head phones? no iPod,cd player,other kind of MP3 player?
I got a Sirius satellite radio, hickory farms basket, Star Wars OT on DVD, and a down comforter the wifey actually bought for herself.
Wife got floor seats tickets to Queen on 3/31 in Phx, a plush new robe, perfume, slippers, pj's, chocolates, and a car charger for her cell phone.
Kids all got new TV's and the usual clothes, candy, etc.
All in all, not too shabby. I escaped the holiday for less $ than I expected.
I got a Sirius satellite radio, hickory farms basket, Star Wars OT on DVD, and a down comforter the wifey actually bought for herself.
Wife got floor seats tickets to Queen on 3/31 in Phx, a plush new robe, perfume, slippers, pj's, chocolates, and a car charger for her cell phone.
Kids all got new TV's and the usual clothes, candy, etc.
All in all, not too shabby. I escaped the holiday for less $ than I expected.
no blackberry?
DVD Burner
Hard Drive upgrade
Subscription to The New Yorker
$$ towards a bass guitar
Some shirts and pants for work
And DVDs...
- Arrested Development Seasons 1 & 2
- The Exorcist
- Carlito's Way
- Indiana Jones set
- Star Wars III
- Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
- Money
- Clothes (Jordan Brand (yay) and some dressy I'll never wear)
- Kick ass Poker set
- Some YvesSaintLaurent (sp?) cologne stuff, huge bottle too, would of been $$$
- Michael Jordan - Driven From Within (i think) book
- Sunglasses (that I chose)
- About $200 worth of DVD's
- A membership to a Roadside Assistance/Mechanical company here in Australia
- Chocolate and candy and all that
- Other little things
Did way better than I though I would, so I'm happy
no music playing device what so ever,
What is that?
My Christmas was great: Xbox 360 games, movies, Alcohol, great time with my girls family, great time with my family. Everyone healthy and happy!
A TIVO with a free year of subscription. That started three days of frustration. First I had to remodel the entertainment center and make more holes for wires to pass through. Then I had to figure out to hook it up to my system since none of the 'suggested" installations included it being hooked up with a surround sound A/V receiver. Not that big of a deal, but it just took me a little while to get my mind wrapped around it. Then a trip to Radio Shack for a splitter, cables, etc. Then hook up everything (including stringing a phone line into the next room to a hardwire phone jack)...then...ready to fire that baby up!
Go online to set up the service...go through 4 screens of registration...decide to buy a lifetime subscription for $300 and take a credit for the gift subscription...put in the validation code..and... ...it says the code is not valid...check, double check...I'm holding the certificate in my hand and everything is correct...try again...not valid... !
Call customer service...hold...hold...hold...finally a person...go through the registration process verbally, give them the credit card info etc..give them the gift certificate number...and you guessed it...it wouldn't take the number...she told me it was a glitch in their system and I wasn't the only one with that problem...but she couldn't fix it...it had to go to "corporate" for approval to overide...but I should be able to set it up anyway since it had six days of service programmed into the machine...but I would have to cal back next Wednesday to complete the registration...
OK...I'm cool with that...I'm 4 hours into the installation now but ready to go, right?
Wrong...
OK...go through the zillion setup screens and get everything ready...it then "calls" Tivo to download system info...it finally tells me everything is done and setup and I am ready...
I fire it up and half my channels are gone...including HBO... !
Back to the troubleshooting manual...I go through everything 3 times and nothing helps...
Call the Tivo helpline...go through the automated menu...choose the tech help option...and it gives me a phone number to call...naturally I wasn't expecting this so I was madly scrampling to find a pen and paper to write the number down...fortunately it gave me an option to repeat the message after I found a pen...
call the other number...hold...hold...hold...finally get a very nice person...go through everything I have already done..still no channels...check the software version...ahhh...that could be the problem...it didn't download the latest version of the software...
Manually tell the unit to update...calls in...and twenty minutes later it disconnects before finishing...
manually call in again...go through the process again...and it disconnects again... !
go the troubleshooting section again...change to a different number for it to call...go through the process again...it finally say it has finished the download...check the software version and it still hasn't updated... !...since it "could take up to 12 hours" for the software to download" (supposedly the info just "trickles" in) according to the help line I leave it alone and go to bed...
Next morning I check it...and it still hasn't downloaded the software...manually connected again...the phone disconnects during the download again...do this three or four times till it finall says it's "done"
still hasn't downloaded the software. !
OK...I go back to square 1...I hook the A/V feed directly from the cable box to the TV to check the feed...and ! those channels are still gone even though I still have those channels on the other TV...
Then the light goes on...*bing*...Part of installing the Tivo involves putting in a cable splitter in ahead of the cable box and hooking one coax to the cable box and one to the TV...that way you can record one channel while watching another...
I take the splitter out of the line and hook it directly to the cable box and got all my stations back...it's either a bad splitter or the cable feed isn't strong enough to go through it...
soooo...after ing with it for about 20 hours the Tivo now works but I can't watch another channel while I record. And it STILL hasn't downloaded the software upgrade and I STILL have to call back to get my subscription straightened out...*sigh*
Trust me...It was even longer doing it...I was about ready to yank the damn thing out and throw it in the trash.
TIVO has just been scratched off my "things to get" list....
Should have gotten DVR instead!
Clothes.....boring.
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