Last week I had to get tires on my car. 35,000 miles on that set of tires (Bridgestones) which is total crap. I went to Sam’s Club cause I had good luck there before getting my desired brand, Michellin. I do some up front research and fall in love with their new Defender (that is if you can fall in love with tires that is) but according to Sam’s they don’t carry them for my car which I think is an SE and takes 16″ rims. I know this going in yet when I get to Sam’s the guy looks up my car and asks if I want Defenders. Yes!
They are busy so it will be 90 minutes. Ok I will read for awhile and then time my frozen food shopping for 6:00. At 6:00 I go check and they tell me that they haven’t even started on them, another hour. Dang, my frozens will thaw. I go find someone to take my stuff to a freezer while I go back and read (Steven King’s 11/22/63). Half an hour later they call to tell me that they have a problem. The Defenders only come in 15″ rim and I have 16″. Major disappointment. We look at what they do have for 16″ rims and decide on Primacy which I knew from the website. I also knew they didn’t stock them and there is a three day wait. I wasted 2.5 hours at Sam’s and drove away with my old bald tires and paid more for tires with only a 60K mileage instead of Defender’s 90K. 
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We have apparently had our DirecTV Tivo DVR for 7 years. For several years it has given us some grief and thought it was time to get a new one but then it would start behaving and all was good again. DirecTV was planning on partnering with Tivo again for HD but was already 3 years delayed. For those 3 years I anxiously waited for the update because we wanted to stick with Tivo if we could. It came out back in February but our DVR was working ok and I wasn’t ready for the added expense of HD so we stayed the course.
Last week however the DVR started acting up and this time it didn’t seem like it was going to fix itself. I was all ready to go for the Tivo when I seen DirecTV’s new Genie super DVR. You could record 5 shows at once and watch side by side shows and it had a TB HD, hmm intriguing.
Saturday after 9:30 pm I call DirecTV ready to take the plunge. They say they will have a guy there to install on Sunday. And he did even though they failed to state on the order that he has to install a new HD dish. RAW isn’t thrilled because they can’t put this heavier one on the fascia like the old one-whatever.
My bigger worry was old stick in the mud RAW and how he was going to adjust with the Genie and it’s features. As I expected, lots of grumbling and whining-ug.
Monday morning I go to turn the TV on and it is asking for the access card–great. Can’t mess with it right now, got to go to work. RAW eventually resets it and all is good.
Tuesday it didn’t it again and wouldn’t recover. I told RAW to call DirecTV and sure enough we have a defective unit. We are still waiting for a replacement. In the meantime if RAW wants to watch TV he has to do it in my studio where he grumbles that the chair is too uncomfortable.
On the bright side, he cleaned the fridge yesterday since he couldn’t watch TV.
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Monday I finally picked some glasses and placed my order.
Part of the reason I dragged my heals ordering these things is that predictably I need the bifocals. I know no one escapes and that I am much older then most who get them, still the same, I feel like I really am old now. I wanted to fight it and quite honestly I think I still see pretty good close up but I know it is starting to go. I am also worried about adjusting to progressive lenses. I watched Paula constantly fiddle with hers the last time she was here. Sherry brought up a good point, it will be easier to adjust while my near prescription is weaker then if I wait until later.
me and my hipster glasses
I am fixated with getting cat eyes, I want to be quirky. Or like Lynda Weinman from Lynda.com.
I guess cat eyes would be the female equivalent of what Hollace calls hipster glasses or I have heard called geek chic. Those glasses are usually those 1950’s black glasses that my dad wore in his HS photo. In fact when Hollace seen that picture of her grandpa in the 50’s, she said hipspter glasses! I’m not getting those, I am getting a variation of what the women work in the 50’s. 😉
I was all set getting the brown ones I picked out the last time but the guy showed me the red ones and I fell in love. Don’t worry, they aren’t Sally Jessie Raphael red from the 80s, these are so pretty. Sherry, my adviser approves through pictures taken with my iPhone. I don’t think I will get them before Thanksgiving though
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We are in dire need for a new mattress. I have been contemplating shopping for them for two years now. I dread the thought of dealing with high stakes (I can’t think of the word that goes with high there) salesmen while laying around a store on mattresses who know who laid on before me. I got to get over that and just do it but first I will do my homework and go in armed with knowledge