Random bit of coolness for the day:
Aug. 14th, 2005 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseSpent most of this morning helping Brian's mother Julie move stuff out of her house and into the moving truck, since she's planning on leaving early this week (Monday or Tuesday, last I heard). There was a bunch of junk out front that she didn't want - old bookshelves and the like - so they had a bunch of "Moving Sale" signs to draw in unsuspecting victims, and then load them up with free junk. ;)
Anyway, I was looking through some of the stuff out there when I came across a box of old cassette tapes. Since my iPod is currently out of commission (the battery quit charging but it was still under warranty so it's on its way back to Apple now), I figured I'd pick through them and see if there was anything worth taking so that I could have something to listen to in my car aside from the radio.
As a matter of fact, it turned out that Brian's parents actually had pretty good taste in music - I managed to find six or seven that looked interesting (a few Enya albums, a Don Henley tape, some random Irish music that looked fun, and a Garrison Keillor story tape that might be fun for a road trip), so I tossed them in the car along with all the other junk that we're taking from her place.
When I got in the car to drive home, I put one of the Enya tapes in, and then hunted around (I've never used the tape player in my car before) for the rewind button so I could play it from the beginning. I found out that the "Seek" buttons function as rewind and fast forward - but it kept stopping the rewind before the end of the tape. This puzzled me until I realized that I have one of those tape players that automagically searches for the blank spaces between songs, so that when you hit "forward" or "back", it finds the beginning of the previous or next song, rather like a CD player. I'd heard of them, but to the best of my knowledge they came out shortly before CDs became really popular, so they never really caught on as an alternative. This is the first one I've ever seen.
I guess there really are perks to having a low-end luxury vehicle from 10 years ago...=)
In other news, Dexter was an absolute pillbug last night. Around 8 in the evening he decided he was going to claw the bedroom curtains and ended up pulling them out of the wall (it was actually sort of funny - he had one paw worth of claws stuck in the curtains, his rear feet balanced on the windowsill and another paw on the window and was trying to extricate himself when they (and he) fell to the floor with a crash). At 2:30 AM or so he decided that it would be fun to pounce on my feet and try to bite them through the covers, which he does on occasion - usually shoving him off the bed with said feet is enough to get him to stop. However, at 3:30 I awoke to him sticking his paw under the covers and (gently) clawing my leg; at 4:30 he was doing his thing where he presses his nose up against yours, which generally means he wants attention and is kind of cute but not at 4:30 IN THE FREAKING MORNING. At that point, Brian realized that he hadn't cleaned his litterbox the day before, so he went and did that and Dexter quit bothering us. I think he was annoyed both about that and the fact that we're out of his dry food and all we have at the moment is a box of the seafood flavors of Fancy Feast that he seems ambivalent about at best. But I have been feeding him, and it's his choice whether to eat it or not.
Silly cat. Good thing he's so cute and we love him so much, or he'd probably be back on the street...heck, maybe I should threaten him with that anyway. =D
Anyway, Donna's coming over to work on sewing project-type-things, so I'm going to go try and clean up at least some of this stuff that's hanging around...
Anyway, I was looking through some of the stuff out there when I came across a box of old cassette tapes. Since my iPod is currently out of commission (the battery quit charging but it was still under warranty so it's on its way back to Apple now), I figured I'd pick through them and see if there was anything worth taking so that I could have something to listen to in my car aside from the radio.
As a matter of fact, it turned out that Brian's parents actually had pretty good taste in music - I managed to find six or seven that looked interesting (a few Enya albums, a Don Henley tape, some random Irish music that looked fun, and a Garrison Keillor story tape that might be fun for a road trip), so I tossed them in the car along with all the other junk that we're taking from her place.
When I got in the car to drive home, I put one of the Enya tapes in, and then hunted around (I've never used the tape player in my car before) for the rewind button so I could play it from the beginning. I found out that the "Seek" buttons function as rewind and fast forward - but it kept stopping the rewind before the end of the tape. This puzzled me until I realized that I have one of those tape players that automagically searches for the blank spaces between songs, so that when you hit "forward" or "back", it finds the beginning of the previous or next song, rather like a CD player. I'd heard of them, but to the best of my knowledge they came out shortly before CDs became really popular, so they never really caught on as an alternative. This is the first one I've ever seen.
I guess there really are perks to having a low-end luxury vehicle from 10 years ago...=)
In other news, Dexter was an absolute pillbug last night. Around 8 in the evening he decided he was going to claw the bedroom curtains and ended up pulling them out of the wall (it was actually sort of funny - he had one paw worth of claws stuck in the curtains, his rear feet balanced on the windowsill and another paw on the window and was trying to extricate himself when they (and he) fell to the floor with a crash). At 2:30 AM or so he decided that it would be fun to pounce on my feet and try to bite them through the covers, which he does on occasion - usually shoving him off the bed with said feet is enough to get him to stop. However, at 3:30 I awoke to him sticking his paw under the covers and (gently) clawing my leg; at 4:30 he was doing his thing where he presses his nose up against yours, which generally means he wants attention and is kind of cute but not at 4:30 IN THE FREAKING MORNING. At that point, Brian realized that he hadn't cleaned his litterbox the day before, so he went and did that and Dexter quit bothering us. I think he was annoyed both about that and the fact that we're out of his dry food and all we have at the moment is a box of the seafood flavors of Fancy Feast that he seems ambivalent about at best. But I have been feeding him, and it's his choice whether to eat it or not.
Silly cat. Good thing he's so cute and we love him so much, or he'd probably be back on the street...heck, maybe I should threaten him with that anyway. =D
Anyway, Donna's coming over to work on sewing project-type-things, so I'm going to go try and clean up at least some of this stuff that's hanging around...
