I've seen in tv shows where people are using an iPhone and they are talking to each other and they can also see each other. Like in Knight Rider for example. I'm curious if that really is possible. Maybe someone call respond to this question.
Since Chip has a job now we're both going to get a cell phone plan and new cell phones. He's been taking our only cell phone to work but it's a pre-paid cell phone which means for $25 he gets 2 1/2 hours to talk. He's calling me all the time and he's calling other places and I just have a bad feeling about it. He's going to need a cell phone plan with an unlimited calling feature, GPS and internet. I figured that we could both have them so we can call each other for free.
I'm going to need one too because as soon as I get a new bike wheel I'm going to be riding my bike again and when he calls me I'd like to be on video phone chatting so he can see what the bike path looks like. I think that would be cool.
Anyway, please, if someone can respond to let me know which cell phone has that feature. I'd like to get blackberries but iphones will be cool too. I just need to know which phone is best for video calls. Thanks
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Changing Focus of Savings
I've realized that since Chip now works during the daytime and my tv programs are on at night that I probably will never see him again. He hates all my tv shows so I watch them by myself in my bedroom while he watches his shows.
The only way for me to spend any time with him and be able to see my shows is to record them and watch them while he's at work. But the problem I faced last night is that I created a program last night to record Chuck, Heroes and Medium but ended up watching them anyway since he was asleep but continued to record them. This morning after he went to work I went to delete the file from the DVD-Ram disc and it was empty. It didn't record at all. That was frustrating.
Tonight I have 2 shows, Reaper at 8 on CW and Mentalist at 10 on CBS. When Reaper is over I have to come in my room and change the cable box to channel 47 for CBS HD so it can record the Mentalist. But I also have to come in and make sure it is recording. Now if he is too tired to stay awake then I will come in here and watch.
My only issue is that on Wednesdays I watch Stargate SG-1 at 3pm on Sci-Fi HD (which is eastern time zone channel) then Ghost Hunters from 4pm-8pm then that one with Linda Blair at 9pm then at 10pm I switch to Comedy Central for South Park. Actually I usually switch to NBC HD at 8pm for Knight Rider. So Wednesdays are usually busy for me.
My new plan for the money I'm saving in PayPal is to buy a TiVo instead of a e-book reader. I've always wanted a TiVo anyway and now I have a reason to buy one. I'm going to wait until I get a widescreen tv though so I can get a HD TiVo.
An HD TiVo is only $200 and if I save $50 a month then it will only take 4 months to save up for it then I can just pay the monthly fee for the plan which is $13 a month. No biggy.
I'm still going to save up for a e-book reader so maybe after I get a TiVo I'll continue saving for the next gen Kindle.
The only way for me to spend any time with him and be able to see my shows is to record them and watch them while he's at work. But the problem I faced last night is that I created a program last night to record Chuck, Heroes and Medium but ended up watching them anyway since he was asleep but continued to record them. This morning after he went to work I went to delete the file from the DVD-Ram disc and it was empty. It didn't record at all. That was frustrating.
Tonight I have 2 shows, Reaper at 8 on CW and Mentalist at 10 on CBS. When Reaper is over I have to come in my room and change the cable box to channel 47 for CBS HD so it can record the Mentalist. But I also have to come in and make sure it is recording. Now if he is too tired to stay awake then I will come in here and watch.
My only issue is that on Wednesdays I watch Stargate SG-1 at 3pm on Sci-Fi HD (which is eastern time zone channel) then Ghost Hunters from 4pm-8pm then that one with Linda Blair at 9pm then at 10pm I switch to Comedy Central for South Park. Actually I usually switch to NBC HD at 8pm for Knight Rider. So Wednesdays are usually busy for me.
My new plan for the money I'm saving in PayPal is to buy a TiVo instead of a e-book reader. I've always wanted a TiVo anyway and now I have a reason to buy one. I'm going to wait until I get a widescreen tv though so I can get a HD TiVo.
An HD TiVo is only $200 and if I save $50 a month then it will only take 4 months to save up for it then I can just pay the monthly fee for the plan which is $13 a month. No biggy.
I'm still going to save up for a e-book reader so maybe after I get a TiVo I'll continue saving for the next gen Kindle.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Dog Fetishes
Can someone answer this? Why do dogs eat cat poop? That is the most disgusting thing in the whole world.
When we got our little Chihuahua, Flower, one of the first things she did was go for the litter box. What? Chip was holding her and then came into my room and asked me to smell her breath and I said no thanks lol. I could already tell that she must've done something bad. Listen, whenever someone asks you to smell or taste something, it's never a good smell or taste. Just say no.
So, I had to put the litter box in the bathtub and make our elderly cat jump into the tub to go to the bathroom but she's old, she craps all over the place because I think she's losing it. So we would still smell cat poop on the dogs breath. I ended up having to put our cat on the patio (it's an indoor patio, it's the area between the garage and our house so it's a patio). My cat loves being out there so she's happy, we're happy, everyone is happy.
When it's cold I bring her in the house and I have to lock her up in the kitchen because if I don't the dog will go for her litter box and also the cat might crap all over the house so she has to stay in the kitchen. I just brought her in and the dog was outside so I brought her back in too and the first thing Flower did was she went to eat some poop on the side of the litter box. LOL Gross dog.
When we got our little Chihuahua, Flower, one of the first things she did was go for the litter box. What? Chip was holding her and then came into my room and asked me to smell her breath and I said no thanks lol. I could already tell that she must've done something bad. Listen, whenever someone asks you to smell or taste something, it's never a good smell or taste. Just say no.
So, I had to put the litter box in the bathtub and make our elderly cat jump into the tub to go to the bathroom but she's old, she craps all over the place because I think she's losing it. So we would still smell cat poop on the dogs breath. I ended up having to put our cat on the patio (it's an indoor patio, it's the area between the garage and our house so it's a patio). My cat loves being out there so she's happy, we're happy, everyone is happy.
When it's cold I bring her in the house and I have to lock her up in the kitchen because if I don't the dog will go for her litter box and also the cat might crap all over the house so she has to stay in the kitchen. I just brought her in and the dog was outside so I brought her back in too and the first thing Flower did was she went to eat some poop on the side of the litter box. LOL Gross dog.
Video Game Videos
Now that Chip is working I can start video taping video game play from my PSP game. I have quite a few actually in my YouTube page but it gets frustrating when I'm talking while playing and then Chip starts calling my name from the other room then I have to stop the recording to yell WHAT! LOL. Or he'll come in here and say who are you talking to?
The only thing that will mess it up I guess is if he calls while he's at work and the phone rings. Although it could be anyone really. But I'm going to work on it. These are the games I already have on YouTube (in the order that I put them on YouTube:
So far that's all the game play videos I have. I still have more games to video tape such as Daxter, Lego Batman, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, Star Wars Battlefront II and Untold Legends: Warriors Code.
I personally like to watch other people play video games to see how it's played because it answers some questions before you buy a game. So, I add my game play to give another perspective for people to see. As soon as I add some I will update this post.
The only thing that will mess it up I guess is if he calls while he's at work and the phone rings. Although it could be anyone really. But I'm going to work on it. These are the games I already have on YouTube (in the order that I put them on YouTube:
- South Park the video game for N64
- My New PSP (Game Play)
- Lego Star Wars II: Original Trilogy PSP
- Sega Genesis Collection for PSP
- Namco Museum Battle Collection for PSP
- Dungeons & Dragons Tactics for PSP
- Sims 2: Pets for PSP
- Lego Indiana Jones for PSP
- Beats for PSP
- Lemmings for PSP
- Flow for PSP
- WTF: Work Time Fun for PSP
So far that's all the game play videos I have. I still have more games to video tape such as Daxter, Lego Batman, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, Star Wars Battlefront II and Untold Legends: Warriors Code.
I personally like to watch other people play video games to see how it's played because it answers some questions before you buy a game. So, I add my game play to give another perspective for people to see. As soon as I add some I will update this post.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Internet Exploder 8
I downloaded the new Internet Explorer 8 from Microsofts website and installed it last night before I went to bed and this morning I loaded it. I looked at it for a few minutes and it didn't really look any different. Other than the fact that it created a whole new toolbar for the Paypal button on it's own toolbar by itself but luckily it had an X next to the toolbar so I was able to close it.
I wasn't too impressed because it looked just like the previous IE7. I closed the browser and all of a sudden without any warning I started getting this error message and I'd close it and another one came up. I closed that one and another and another over and over again. There must've been 100 all for the same 2 errors. It would warn me about 1 error and it told me the number (which I didn't think to write down) then I closed it and it told me about another one with it's own number (again...).
The only way to get that crap from continuing was I had to reboot the computer. Yeah, I think I'll stick with Firefox, thanks though.
I wasn't too impressed because it looked just like the previous IE7. I closed the browser and all of a sudden without any warning I started getting this error message and I'd close it and another one came up. I closed that one and another and another over and over again. There must've been 100 all for the same 2 errors. It would warn me about 1 error and it told me the number (which I didn't think to write down) then I closed it and it told me about another one with it's own number (again...).
The only way to get that crap from continuing was I had to reboot the computer. Yeah, I think I'll stick with Firefox, thanks though.
Costco
Now that Chip has a new job we can start going to Costco again. You know, the last time we went to Costco I think it was a couple of years ago. I bought a box of garbage bags and you know I still have bags. We use them all the time. Not just for trash but for recycled bottles too. I fill them with bottles and we can take maybe 6 bags of bottles to be recycled and they even recycle those bags and yet I still have lots of bags. And it was just 1 box of trash bags too, it's not like I had bought 4 boxes. They last forever.
I can't wait to start going back there though because we were eating so good. Our pantry was always filled and I was able to get my soy milk which is what I have to put in my cereal or drink in a glass. I can't drink regular milk because I'm lactose intolerant. That is my main cause of most of my health problems. My stomach cannot digest it as easy as anything else and so I end up with some serious cramps that hurt like a mother (shut yo mouth). And I get gas omg the gas is real bad too lol. When I hear Chip coming towards my bedroom and I see him in the hallway I usually have to tell him that he doesn't want to be in here right now lol. Yeah, it's that bad. You know when you have the farts and it hurts to hold them in so you just let it all out. It doesn't make any sense to go outside or go in the bathroom and fart cause you're just gonna have to fart again in a few minutes. So I end up just going to town in my room. Or well, whatever room I'm in lol.
Costco has really awesome prices too. If you compare it all to the grocery store you will see that everything is half price. Because you are buying in bulk and everything is cheaper in bulk. We were buying this certain type of bread that is health nut bread because Chip wants to eat healthy but when we stopped going to Costco we had to stop buying that bread period because at Albertson's it's half the amount of the bread and it cost more than double of what the bigger loaf at Costco was. I think it's like $5 at Albertson's for half the loaf you get at Costco for $2 something.
They have this one thing that I really enjoyed which was roast beef in a can, I think it was roast beef. I can't remember. It's not like sliced roast beef but it's kinda like chunks of roast beef I guess and it's in a can like tuna but bigger can. But you take the chunks out of the can and you can either add the chunks to your food or you can crumble it with your fingers and it just shreds it and so it's like hundreds of strings of roast beef in your food. I like to do that to it because it evens out the odds of every bowl getting roast beef lol.
They have these crackers which are the gourmet crackers that you would normally see in the deli section of the grocery store, not in the cracker aisle. They are expensive at the grocery store and they are with all the fancy cheeses. But at Costco you buy a box and it has I think 5 different kinds of fancy crackers each in their own boxes. If you have company you can serve those crackers and they will think that you spent a fortune on crackers just for them but in reality it's just a few bucks.
Oh and the coffee. Can't forget the coffee. They have these huge bags of coffee beans that if I bought them from the grocery store, you know where you go to the coffee aisle and you see all these different flavors that you pour into a bag then grind it and it's like $8 per lb or something. Well, Costco has the beans I think in 2 flavors but I really only want the vanilla ones anyway so it doesn't matter what they have. As long as they have that one. But it costs about the same for this big bag of coffee beans as it costs for 1lb of the grocery store beans. The down side is that you have to grind it at home but who really cares? You get freshly ground coffee everyday so what's the problem eh?
And they sell the little coffee mate french vanilla creamers in the little tiny cups that you peel off the top. Just like they have at the restaurants. Real cheap too. I used to buy 2 boxes, that lasts a month. Plus a box of like 700 packets of equal for less than $10. You can't get that for that price at the store. I usually have to buy the Albertson's brand equal with 100 or 200 packets for around $3 or something. The Equal from Costco lasts the entire month. I usually have to buy 3 or 4 boxes of the store brand for the whole month, that is if I drink coffee everyday but usually we put it in our tea too.
Well, enough about Costco. We're going to renew our membership so I can start saving money again lol. I can't wait because I love the free samples lol.
I can't wait to start going back there though because we were eating so good. Our pantry was always filled and I was able to get my soy milk which is what I have to put in my cereal or drink in a glass. I can't drink regular milk because I'm lactose intolerant. That is my main cause of most of my health problems. My stomach cannot digest it as easy as anything else and so I end up with some serious cramps that hurt like a mother (shut yo mouth). And I get gas omg the gas is real bad too lol. When I hear Chip coming towards my bedroom and I see him in the hallway I usually have to tell him that he doesn't want to be in here right now lol. Yeah, it's that bad. You know when you have the farts and it hurts to hold them in so you just let it all out. It doesn't make any sense to go outside or go in the bathroom and fart cause you're just gonna have to fart again in a few minutes. So I end up just going to town in my room. Or well, whatever room I'm in lol.
Costco has really awesome prices too. If you compare it all to the grocery store you will see that everything is half price. Because you are buying in bulk and everything is cheaper in bulk. We were buying this certain type of bread that is health nut bread because Chip wants to eat healthy but when we stopped going to Costco we had to stop buying that bread period because at Albertson's it's half the amount of the bread and it cost more than double of what the bigger loaf at Costco was. I think it's like $5 at Albertson's for half the loaf you get at Costco for $2 something.
They have this one thing that I really enjoyed which was roast beef in a can, I think it was roast beef. I can't remember. It's not like sliced roast beef but it's kinda like chunks of roast beef I guess and it's in a can like tuna but bigger can. But you take the chunks out of the can and you can either add the chunks to your food or you can crumble it with your fingers and it just shreds it and so it's like hundreds of strings of roast beef in your food. I like to do that to it because it evens out the odds of every bowl getting roast beef lol.
They have these crackers which are the gourmet crackers that you would normally see in the deli section of the grocery store, not in the cracker aisle. They are expensive at the grocery store and they are with all the fancy cheeses. But at Costco you buy a box and it has I think 5 different kinds of fancy crackers each in their own boxes. If you have company you can serve those crackers and they will think that you spent a fortune on crackers just for them but in reality it's just a few bucks.
Oh and the coffee. Can't forget the coffee. They have these huge bags of coffee beans that if I bought them from the grocery store, you know where you go to the coffee aisle and you see all these different flavors that you pour into a bag then grind it and it's like $8 per lb or something. Well, Costco has the beans I think in 2 flavors but I really only want the vanilla ones anyway so it doesn't matter what they have. As long as they have that one. But it costs about the same for this big bag of coffee beans as it costs for 1lb of the grocery store beans. The down side is that you have to grind it at home but who really cares? You get freshly ground coffee everyday so what's the problem eh?
And they sell the little coffee mate french vanilla creamers in the little tiny cups that you peel off the top. Just like they have at the restaurants. Real cheap too. I used to buy 2 boxes, that lasts a month. Plus a box of like 700 packets of equal for less than $10. You can't get that for that price at the store. I usually have to buy the Albertson's brand equal with 100 or 200 packets for around $3 or something. The Equal from Costco lasts the entire month. I usually have to buy 3 or 4 boxes of the store brand for the whole month, that is if I drink coffee everyday but usually we put it in our tea too.
Well, enough about Costco. We're going to renew our membership so I can start saving money again lol. I can't wait because I love the free samples lol.
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