Bored Again

My VCR/DVD player was kind of on the fritz--whenever I taped something on the VCR, it would always have places where the sound cut out, the picture was fuzzy, the video sped up for no reason, etc. So, I bought a new one. Only this time, I got a VCR/DVD-Recorder.

I decided to start over with the Phil of the Future taping, so that I'd get a better quality. It's a good thing that imdb.com lists all of the episodes, plus two weeks' worth of future air dates, or I'd be screwed until my TVGuide subscription got processed.

Eventually, I'm going to have to re-tape Kim Possible: So the Drama, A Valentine Carol, and Zenon: The Zequel too . . . but none of them are playing anytime in the next two weeks. I'll also have to get The Lizzie McGuire Movie. I found out today though that I can buy Kim Possible: So the Drama AND the other KP movie: Kim Possible: A Stitch in Time from Amazon, but I can't buy the others. Bummer. *shrug* It's not like I'm actually going to buy them anyway.

I also want a copy of Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and the third Zenon movie (I'm pretty sure there is a third one), even though I haven't seen that one yet.

I need to check my DVD of Hook to make sure I got all of it. I'm pretty sure I did, but I want to be sure because the DVD says it holds 2 hours worth of video at standard speed, but when the movie (and the two "making of" things afterward) were finished, it said that the time was 2 hours and 40-some minutes. I'm not sure what speed it was recorded at though. If I didn't get all of it, I'll just fast-forward (on the tape) to the place where it stopped recording (on the DVD), put a 2nd DVD into my new recorder, and let it roll.

Gabe at work sent me an invitation to this one file-sharing program/group which sounds like it's a lot better than LimeWire. I'll have to check it out later.

While I was at Wal*Mart last night, I also bought butter (I was out), a 16-piece set of dishes, and a 20-piece flatware set. I got sick of washing one each of my two bowls and two spoons every time I had to eat breakfast.

Sheesh! It's only 3:30, and I've been out of stuff to do since noon!

FINALLY!

Well, I got to watch the Smallville episode.

I had to go to my parents' house before it finished downloading (it had about half an hour left), but after dinner, Anna drove me back to my place so we could pick up the hard drive.

Then, she got an S-cable to hook up her computer to her 27-inch TV which she got from Scott. But the silly girl thought that her mouse port was her S-cable connection (she and I have the same type of laptop).

So, she went downstairs and got the laptop Aunt Tammy got rid of, which Dad was going to give to Anna anyway. Only thing was, the screen on that one wasn't working.

So, we hooked up the hard drive to Anna's original laptop again and saved a copy of the episode on the network. Then, Anna got Dad's laptop and hooked up the S-cable. The problem with that was, we couldn't get Dad's laptop to read the network drive that we'd saved the episode onto!

We finally discovered that Anna's laptop (and, by extension, my laptop as well) has a TV video jack in the side! D'oh! We hooked up the video, then Anna hooked up the audio through the speaker jack with this cable she has that can connect to it as well as to the audio plugs on a TV.

A couple Ctrl+F4's, and we were good to go--television on the computer on the television!

When I got home later and looked in my desk, I realized that, with my camcorder, I'd gotten the exact same cables I'd need to do the same thing at my place with my laptop!

So Patrick J. is coming over after work today to watch the episode, since he didn't get to see it either.

Sunday

I tried to watch the Smallville episode from this week, but two things prevented me from doing so:

1. The cable company was having trouble (due to the weather) with their sattelite feed from the CW.
2. The tape I'd taped it on was old--as in, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: The Series first run OLD.

So, the sound was really bad, and the picture was all fuzzy, and the whole thing would just cut in and out for no apparent reason.

In order to see the episode, I have to download it from Limewire--the download is running now. I got a 160GB external hard drive yesterday (after I ran my errands for the next two weeks) with season 1 of M*A*S*H, and seasons 2 & 3 of MacGyver (they didn't have seasons 1, 4, or 5 at Best Buy, and those are the only ones I need now).

Went to church today. While I was sitting in sacrament meeting, I decided that every Sunday, I'm going to write down all of the scriptures we look up on all three hours of church, and put the references in this blog, plus actually quote my favorite for the day.

So, here are this week's scriptures:

• Doctrine & Covenants 107:23
• St. John chapters 3 & 4
• Mosiah 5:2 & 7
• Moses 6:59-60
• Matthew 25:40
• Alma 7:11-12

AND, this one was actually quoted first, but I liked it the best:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with
promise;)

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord.

(Ephesians 6:1-4)