Busy bees
Life have been moving at the speed of light around these here parts. We went to Matt and Angie's wedding on Saturday. While it was good to see old friends we didn't really get to spend much time with them. We did, however, manage to corral Ray-Ray for a good portion of the evening. It was good to get to talk to her, and it was easy. Easy in the sense that sometimes after you don't see somebody for a while you lose the natural flow of conversation you once had with them. That was not the case here, it felt like old times. Pictures coming to Flickr soon. As soon as we get things squared away on our brand spanking new computer!
That's right. Michelle and Chris have moved into the modern age, you're welcome. Sunday morning over brunch we were discussing the state of our computers and it was not good, two PC's, both running Win 98 over a wireless B network. One PII 400 and the other PII 750. In other words, they are ancient. So at that moment we decided to buy a new computer. We drove back to CR from Ames and headed straight to Best Buy where we purchased an HP Media Center PC.
Internet, if you don't know what a Media Center PC is then you should find out, because they rock. Media Center PC's come equipped with TV tuner cards which allow DVR/PVR/TIVO (pick your acronym) functionality on your computer. Initially I thought that the computer would have TV output that would allow me to hook the computer directly to the TV. Turns out it was not so. But after purchasing the rather pricey Media Center Extender box and upgrading my network by purchasing a wireless A+G router we are set. We can now watch live TV, recorded TV, see our pictures, listen to the radio, listen to recorded music, and watch home movies on our TV while wirelessly streaming the data from our Media Center PC.
There are still many features of the new PC we haven't begun to look at yet, but for now I am very happy with our new setup and the coolness factor is off the charts.
In other news, still no baby. Hustle up Luka, everyone is waiting to meet you.
Quote of the weekend:
"But you still eat sausage, don't you?"
- Jones to Ray-Ray
That's right. Michelle and Chris have moved into the modern age, you're welcome. Sunday morning over brunch we were discussing the state of our computers and it was not good, two PC's, both running Win 98 over a wireless B network. One PII 400 and the other PII 750. In other words, they are ancient. So at that moment we decided to buy a new computer. We drove back to CR from Ames and headed straight to Best Buy where we purchased an HP Media Center PC.
Internet, if you don't know what a Media Center PC is then you should find out, because they rock. Media Center PC's come equipped with TV tuner cards which allow DVR/PVR/TIVO (pick your acronym) functionality on your computer. Initially I thought that the computer would have TV output that would allow me to hook the computer directly to the TV. Turns out it was not so. But after purchasing the rather pricey Media Center Extender box and upgrading my network by purchasing a wireless A+G router we are set. We can now watch live TV, recorded TV, see our pictures, listen to the radio, listen to recorded music, and watch home movies on our TV while wirelessly streaming the data from our Media Center PC.
There are still many features of the new PC we haven't begun to look at yet, but for now I am very happy with our new setup and the coolness factor is off the charts.
In other news, still no baby. Hustle up Luka, everyone is waiting to meet you.
Quote of the weekend:
"But you still eat sausage, don't you?"
- Jones to Ray-Ray
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