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@don_rivers no learning is a waste of time – even if the most you get from it is learning new ways to learn.

@don_rivers e.g., learning bartending/barista’ing taught me how to think in culinary concepts so learning to cook has been much easier

@don_rivers Missed your Dreamcast tweet. If you have the means, use the RGB connection – DRASTIC difference – looks better than Wii!

I pray I continually take very seriously my influence on Wesley and the lifelong affect it will have on him. http://read.ly/Prov22.6.NLT

(Rats. I just used "affect" (verb) when I intended "effect" (noun). Go ahead, everyone, point and laugh 😛 )

RT @PSLifeStyle: New Post: You’ll Want to Watch BioShock Infinite’s Full Gameplay Trailer http://bit.ly/98QxFV

RT @KE5WLM: RT @NMDHSEM: #NMEM#NMSTORM Last Day of Summer brings a wx change for most of NM today. Fall starts at 9:09pm MDT. Rain in mo …

Our internet just went out. #baja #alamogordo

🙂 🙂 🙂 RT @PlayStation: In case you missed it: Netflix streaming app (no more disc!) coming to US PS3s in October: http://bit.ly/9Dwiga

It’s always good when the mailman shows up with kreteks 🙂 Now if only UPS would show up with our coffee beans from Intelligentsia.

Hoping disc-free Netflix means it will work on PSP via Remote Play! This indicates it will http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Play#Usability

Caveat: That info on Wikipedia is the only source I’ve found that says Netflix will work via Remote Play. I’m not convinced yet.

@don_rivers It’s the computer monitor connection – our HDTV has one, not all do. Plus, I’m not sure Dreamcast comes with the cable.

@don_rivers RGB is officially supported, though. I have a box with SVid and RGB, genuine SEGA part# HKT-8100. RGB outputs 720×480 @60Hz

@don_rivers I assume the used part of the screen is vga resolution. There is also a big color improvement over even s-vid.

@don_rivers I’ve got a standard monitor cable between the DC and our tv. So far as I know, it’s also the only non-interlaced option for DC.

@don_rivers You can see the difference for yourself when you come over to play some Space Channel 5 Part 2 🙂

Ah, the memories… http://insidiousplots.com/dreamcast.html

@don_rivers Hmm, yeah I guess so, but may be EU. It’s a copy – people used to send me random stuff back when I ran that Dreamcast group.

@don_rivers It is in english, though. I had forgotten there was never a US Dreamcast release.

@don_rivers I wasn’t into games much back then so my legitimate Dreamcast imports are all non-game software (browsers, DreamEye, etc.).

My mom is rapidly becoming a total PlayStation Home junkie.

My mom is rapidly becoming a total PlayStation Home junkie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Home )

@don_rivers if no one replied yet, yes, balloons fly tomorrow, too.

The wine festival was a total waste. Too hot, no place for 4-year-olds, nothing to do there, just walking around, sweating, tasting wine.

RT @Ksmenefee1969: After all those years in school, I finally know what the semi-colon is for. It’s to make the winky faces 😉

Dementia Radio, Brown Bag Deli, and Pinot Grigio (GREAT with my chicken chile sammich and Munchos). It must be slumber party night 🙂

I marking this down in our wine diary (yeah, so?) as my favorite white wine experience so far. (not a big fan of anything but reds so far)

Oh, oops, it’s a Ecco Domani 2008 Pinot Grigio that Terra chose with a chicken green chile sandwich from Brown Bag Deli.

(NOM NOM NOM GULP GULP NOM NOM GULP GULP NOM NOM GULP GULP GULP — EMPTY BOTTLE???!!!! But I still have sammich left!!)

Doing spn the way we first started it – move everything in living room, lay out blankets and pillows. Apply movie, junk food.

But, what were we thinking with Time Bandits on blu-ray for spn?? This movie is a lot better than i remembered.

Christmas kitty is terrified of the hot air balloons cruising over the house.

Some jackhole landed in the street a couple blocks from us – we managed to get over to it and there’s a crowd and an angry cop.

I put my old old cheap digital camera in wesley’s hands and showed him how to take pics of the balloons with it. He LOVED it.

I put all the pics wesley took onto his psp and terra is selecting some for Facebook album – it will be up in a few minutes.

I uploaded a YouTube video — Some jackhole landed his hot air balloon in the street a … http://youtu.be/sSZwPfIAWws?a

If you turn that vid i posted WAY up you can hear the pilot tell the cop he was just stopping for the stop sign and the cop isn’t amused.

Can anyone tell me if this little wine festival is worth it? $24 just to walk in and we drove by and only saw arts&crafts vendors.

Ok, based on Sarah’s recommendation of previous years, we’re walking into the wine fest. Hope it isn’t a bad year 😀 (wine joke)

Today, I’m a washing machine repair man. What could possibly go wrong? #livingthedream

Welp, the good news is the washing machine isn’t leaking. The bad news is, all that water leakage is coming from behind the wall. GrrAARR!

In other news, the bar computer was killed last night (when SOMEONE overloaded the circuit it’s on) and will now only display 640×480. (??!)

So, uh, if anyone wants me, I’ll be out looking for a brick wall to bang my head against for a while.

Ooers? RT @PlayStation: Sports Champions Week: Producer Jeremy Ray highlights Disc Golf for PlayStation Move: http://bit.ly/a3XLo2

I will now remove the back of my hand from my forehead at least long enough to make coffee for Wesley and I.

I used a garden hose and duct tape so the washer can drain out to the back yard. Does this mean I’m a real man now?

Shockingly, the landlord managed to get someone out here quickly and it’s already fixed. Now I can do laundry again. Oh joy.

@don_rivers your first at didn’t hit my phone anyway, i just now saw it. Either verizon or twitter sms is getting frustratingly unreliable.

Wesley is his usual bouncy, squealing, giggly self today. He slept in the living room with me and was very eager for breakfast.

Oh. My. God. Wesley just reached up and switched off his bedroom light switch. We had no idea he could do that. He’s gonna be shaving soon.

RT @homebarista: "You should be able to grind, dose, distribute and tamp in under 45 seconds. If not, too many barnacles on your prep ri …

@rachelrt Our kitty wouldn’t use the fountain for months (even in July) then we got a 2nd kitty and it’s like new kitty taught him to use it

The yards are DONE. Bring it on, code enforcement guy.

I just saw Christmas kitty narrowly miss (by a couple feet, tops) getting run over by a garbage truck coming down the alley.