We are going to make a move to AT&T U-Verse. We have been using the Dish Network for our cable needs for the last seven years. But then Chrissy and I paid a visit to the local AT&T store to ask questions about her new iPhone. During the troubleshooting, the clerk gave us the sales pitch for AT&T U-Verse. We would...
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Our old projection screen TV stood about four feet tall on its own base, but the new flat screen has no base. So we needed a stand to go under it. The set that our entertainment center belongs to has an available TV stand, but we never needed it before. Luckily, the furniture store still sold our set, and it was on clearance...
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When our DISH Network box stopped working, we were offered free HD programming with the new box. We had been waiting on HD, since we’re cheap and didn’t want to pay extra for it, so this worked out for us. The problem was that our TV only had one HDMI connection, and that was already occupied by our Blu-Ray player. ...
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It used to be that the best science fiction shows on television would all air on the same night on the same channel: “Sci-Fi Friday”. This is what the Sci-Fi Channel (now the more trademarkable “SyFy”) called their Friday night lineup. Many of our favorite shows, like Farscape, Stargate SG1, Doctor Who...
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Katie called to say that her friend Julie got a block of tickets to see Choo Choo Soul at the Radisson Star Theater in Merrillville because she’s interning at Radio Disney in Chicago. She had about forty tickets to give away and asked if we could help her distribute them. The boys liked Choo Choo Soul on the Disney...
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I was watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special with my son Aiden last week, and I can’t help but feel that I was missing something. I used to watch it every season as a kid, but I hadn’t seen it in the last fifteen or so years. Now that I have kids of my own (and a copy of the movie on DVD), I thought that I...
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Chrissy and I watch new episodes of “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” on television every Monday. These people have eight kids, so it’s fun to watch them suffer through the same problems that regular parents have (except eight times over, all at once). Kate manages this herculean task by implementing highly effective...
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There was a recent episode of Doctor Who where he, Martha and Donna ended up on an uninhabitable world with a group of humans battling a group of fish people (called the Hath) in an underground city. The Doctor gets his hand stuck in a gene sampler and ends up with a daughter or something. The really interesting part, for...
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