11/16/2012: Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

When I got the new computer a couple weeks ago, I moved the old computer out to the living room and hooked it up to the TV. Needed this wireless keyboard and mouse so I could use it and not have cords stretched across the room. The most incredible thing about them? They came with batteries included!

Sidenote: An optical mouse will not work on a glass top coffee table. Thus the magazine as mouse-pad.

See Also: Coffee Table

8/27/2012: Dryer

Completing the pairing, here the dryer to yesterday's washer. You can't really have one without the other. Well, you CAN, but why would you? Unless all the power goes out like in that new show Revolution (which I'm really getting geeked for) it's not like I'm going to hang up my clothes to dry. I do have the clothesline poles embedded in cement in the back yard, but these day they only serve as ideal homes for wasps.

See Also: Washing Machine; Laundry Needing to be Folded

8/26/2012: Washing Machine

One of the best things about home ownership is having my very own washing machine. No more sharing a washer and dryer with the rest of the apartment complex, having the machines already be in use when wanting to do a load or not being able to start a load after 10PM. Anytime I want to I can wash my clothes! That's the American Dream baby!

8/18/2012: DVD Player

No I haven't bothered upgrading to BluRay. At the time I last needed a new DVD player the marginally better performance of a Blu-Ray (and yes, that's really all it gives you, and yes I've seen them in action) wasn't worth the extra cost. Of course, now they cost the same. So when this one eventually dies I'll "upgrade." But the way things are going, everything will be digital before that happens. The DVD Player shares space with my new TiVo behind the false "drawers" in my Anderson Media Console.

5/24/2012: Shredder

I finally decided to pull out the shredder and tackle the mound of junk mail credit card solicitations I've collected over the last year or so. Honestly I'd like to just stop receiving mail all together, is that possible?Of course, then what would I do with the shredder? Maybe use it to shred lettuce for tacos?

4/16/2012: Samsung Computer Monitor

You can see my W2 and tax docs from my mortgage company sitting under the computer monitor from doing my taxes early. Two whole days early! Finished them up yesterday.

See also: guest room stuff

4/11/2012: New TiVo

Blame this purchase on Mediacom. Cable switched to digital something or other, my old series 2 TiVo no longer picks up channels higher than 13 so... new TiVo time. Even if I eventually cancel the cable and go to using an antenna (Like watching TV in the 70s!) you can't use an antenna with the old series 2. And that's my plan. Of course, I say I'm cancelling cable every time I see the bill... and then I notice Sharktopus is on SyFy and I forget what I was planning to do...

See also: Anderson Media Console