07
Jan 2009
…and I couldn’t care less. I have never understood the fascination that people have with turning the page on a calendar. Well, I can understand it if they have a really cool calendar like Dilbert or The Art of Star Wars. Still though, even the presence of a cool calendar doesn’t excuse the “festivities” that take place with the coming of a new year. Standing outside in the cold and counting backwards from ten just doesn’t appeal to me.
The only year that I have looked forward to is 2000 and that was because I wanted to see if the predicted horrors of Y2K would actually happen. Obviously they didn’t which was a great disappointment to many survivalists that had stocked up on toilet paper and Mountain Dew but it was nice to know that my VCR still flashed “12:00″ without missing a beat.
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Category: Family, Holidays
Tags: Christmas lights, Dilbert, Family, hogle zoo, holiday, Kids, movie, New Year's, playing video games, watching television, Wii, Y2K
14
Oct 2008
Some of you may remember a few months back when I posted my thoughts on Logitech’s Harmony One universal remote. I love this remote. It has got to be one of the best gadgets in my house. Anyways, I discovered a new use for it: teasing my kids.
Sunday night, Emma and Alex were watching television. I was standing behind the sofa with my Harmony One while Emma was trying to surf channels using the television’s remote. She would change the channel and I would mute the television. She’d then un-mute it and I’d change the channel. After a few minutes of this Emma became extremely frustrated and actually got up to change the channel. I muted the TV again. She was so angry that she shut the television off and told Alex that they couldn’t watch TV because it was broken. At this point, I couldn’t contain myself any longer and began laughing. I told Emma that the TV was fine and that I was the one causing the problems. She responded by hiding my remote when I wasn’t looking. Lucky for me, I was able to find it relatively easily.
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Category: Emma, Jeremiah
Tags: Alex, Emma, gadgets, Harmony One, Holly, Jeremiah, Logitech, revenge, television, watching television
