Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on November 19, 2012 at 10:00 am

• New blog post – Thus Spake Russ: A Week (or so) of Tweets – http://t.co/LuG2GN3X ->
• Seasoning some cast iron using bacon grease. Guess what my house smells like. #heaven ->
• RT @CharlieDaniels: You can sleep well tonight,these guys will be awake http://t.co/B5sf1ffV ->
• Poor Packet. He sees the vet tomorrow, and doesn't know that I can't feed him again tonight. His begging is like something out of Dickens. ->
• Packet's at the vet. Last time one of the cats went to the vet, she didn't come home. I have a wholly unwarranted sense of unease. ->
• RT @ToddKincannon: If you're a conservative in California, why are you still in California? If you're a liberal business owner in Califo … ->
• RT @thekelliejane: I just…I can't. RT @garysteveneaton: Yeah, I bitch about some "artists" on our side, but WTF is this? http://t.co/ … ->
• If there's anything – anything at all – better than a nap, y'all have been holding out on me. ->
• RT @sonodoc99: But They'll Have Insurance RT @ABC
  Doctor Shortage Could Cause Health Care Crash http://t.co/dEuEW3Ga ->
• RT @IMAO_: I was hoping the reelection of Obama would give us a short break from dishonest cries of racism, but no because the left are … ->
• RT @TheWobblyCat: Moki's words of wisdom: "If you like it then you better puts a bitey on it…" MOL http://t.co/vMjAZgij ->
• New blog post – Thus Spake Russ: A Few More Pet Peeves – http://t.co/2q3ujGyF ->
• Flipping thru channels… Food Network… wow, Rachel Ray has really, er, "bulked up" over the past few years, hasn't she? ->
• RT @DosEquisMan: He once sent $1000 to a Nigerian scammer, and actually received his $5 million share of the loot. ->
• Dragged into a conference call again, where I was *desperately* needed. I haven't said a word in 90 minutes. ->
• Six hours into the conference call. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. ->
• Perhaps the impending doom of the Hostess Twinkie was what the Mayans meant with that calendar of theirs. ->
• Oh great. Kismet has learned how to play with the phone. Next he'll be ordering pizza. With anchovies. ->
• Boss: "Can you be on-call on T-Day?" Me: "Sure." Boss: "You can have a Comp Day for it." Me: "How about today?" Boss: "OK." Me: "L8r dude." ->
• I can't possibly be the only one who's totally creeped out by the "after" shots of those women in that "Lifestyle Lift" TV ad… can I? ->
• RT @red_red_head: They killed Twinkies. I wasn't keen on them before, but now I REALLY hate unions. ->
• RT @CatsPolitics: Dear @BCTGM: how does it feel to cut your nose off to spite your face? 18,000 jobs. POOF! Gone. And you killed Twinkie … ->
• Certainly a candidate for the award. // RT @keder: Dumbest tweet ever? http://t.co/1SKnUSGH You be the judge. ->
• It's way too early in the day for the cats to be acting like such d-bags. It's not like they need the practice. ->
• RT @WilliamTeach: I'm boycotting any radio station that is already playing Christmas music ->
• I fully endorse. // RT @WilliamTeach: I'm boycotting any radio station that is already playing Christmas music ->

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Posted By Russ Emerson on November 15, 2012 at 2:16 pm

Because of the Ongoing Neurological Unpleasantness™, I do a lot of shopping online. But when a delivery requires a signature, I can never make it to the front door in time to catch the driver. I think they ring the doorbell and wait maybe 40 nanoseconds before slapping the “sorry we missed you” sticker on the door and leaving. So I end up schlepping down the stairs for no more point other than to sign the sticker.

Having hand controls in my pickup truck is great; it gives me a freedom to get around like I hadn’t had for a while. But every time I go somewhere, I am reminded that my truck is about three inches too high off the ground for me to be able to get into it with a reasonable degree of safety. No falls there yet, but I figure it’s only a matter of time.

[Speaking of falls… I’ve only had one in recent months, but of course it was on the hard tile of the bathroom floor, rather than, say, the slightly less-hard carpeted floor of my bedroom.]

My cable box-slash-DVR has an unfortunate tendency every so often to get into a state where it will not record anything, and there’s no warning sign until I realize I’ve missed the previous night’s episode of Red Eye. (In fact, the only Red Eyes I’ve missed since the show’s start have been due to DVR failure.) A reboot is the recommended workaround.

Naturally, merely turning the DVR off and back on via the remote isn’t adequate; you have to power cycle the box to get it to reboot. There’s no way to do it via the DVR’s remote. Which means I have to drag my crippled ass over to where everything is wired up and unplug the DVR, wait 20 seconds, and plug it back in again. Nuisance.

Of course, the solution to the previous problem was staring me in the face the whole time, and I’m an idiot for not realizing it.

I had a few lamps in the house set up to use X10 remote control. The main receiver was plugged into an outlet in my bedroom, and then I had a few “lamp module” dimmers spread around. I realized this week that I could put the main receiver between the DVR and the power strip, and now I can cycle the power on the DVR at will.

Like I said: idiot.

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