@I_was_the_catH: "1. Managed to keep up with dailies every day. Got over my illness and healed
my scalded hand.
2. Went to Wal-Mart Thursday and bought a satellite radio, came home and
activated it. Works great!
3. Went to the grocery store for water, pet food and kitty litter yesterday
4. Gave the kitchen an extra good clean this morning.
5. Swiffered and wet jetted the kitchen, dining room, and living room this
morning
6. Cancelled our cable this morning.  Cable=~$730/yr.  XM Radio= ~$120/yr.
Result=cheaper ad free classical music + ~$610/yr. We stopped watching the
cable TV channels about a year ago. We use the TV mostly for watching
videos-and some PBS and HSN and we *were* using it for the classical music
channels.
7. Contracted for a new roof-charcoal gray architectural mildew proof
shingles, leak barrier, premium felt, ridge vent, color coordinated drip
edge with a d-strip, plus any decking that needs to be replaced. All old
shingles, bad wood and the 2 electric roof vent fans thingys will be removed
and taken away. The roof goes on before the eaves troughs so there won't be
old roof crap dropped in my new gutters. 10-year guarantee on the
workmanship and 30-year guarantee on the materials. Let's hope this one
lasts longer than 14 years.
8. Watched the cats play with their new toy that the UPS man brought today.
Rusty loves it. There's a picture of the toy at:
<url>
9. Activated Mom's new credit card and had her sign it-cut up her old one
10. Wrote checks to pay some bills
11. Updated and balanced Quicken.
12. Filed 2 non-paying bidder alerts with eBay
13. Gathered up all of the trash and rolled it to the curb for pickup in the
a.m.
Brenda"
    @jojow37064: "Hope you and your Mom enjoy the satellite radio.  I gave this to my husband
a year ago for his birthday.  We have truly enjoyed it.
jo
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    @invalid: "On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:51:43 -0500, "I was the cat"
<quote>
I am way behind reading arc, so did not know you had been
ill and injured.  I am sorry to hear of this, but pleased
that you are mending.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is satellite radio - I have
an image of a radio with a big dish on it, but figure that
is not right ;-)
Nice work snipped
That is a nice saving, congratulations.
Wo<url>  I did not know you were in the market for a new
roof.  You will have built yourself a whole new house, well
done.  Enjoy your new roof. 
Now that looks fun.
Yet more work snipped.
Well done on everything.
Rich
album at <url>
correct to the ususal to mail 654richarc at bigfoot com "
    @I_was_the_catH: "news:<email_address>
<quote>
healed
It was stuff I did to myself. I ate something I shouldn't have and got
sickI poured boiling water on my hand draining pasta. I think I was being
subconsciously self-destructive there for a few days. It's all better now.
You buy a receiver to get ad-free radio from a satellite that you subscribe
to. It has an antennna but it's a flat little thing that adjusts. You can
get adapters to use it at home with your home stereo system or in your
carit doesn't have speakers. We got a thing called a boombox to put our
receiver in(can't believe I bought something called that) that has the
speakers and an AC adapterand also runs on batteries so you can take it
anywhere. We got xm radioradio to the power of X :). We're happy with it.
Even the dogs like itthey sleep over by the buffet it's on all of the
time.
~$120/yr.
the
music
When I realized how much we were paying a year just for musicI felt sort
of sick. We should have gotten rid of the cable about a year agosince we
weren't really using itbut me and the dogs need the musiccalming the
savage beast, etc. I couldn't imagine listening to commercial radio
hereand we just lost our only classical station anyway.
removed
be
I didn't know we were in the market for a new roof eitherbut realized it
after the vinyl was put on. It will be a new houseand we couldn't have
bought one for the price of the windows, vinyl, roof and gutters. The thing
I'm looking forward to is the lack of maintenance and worry that someone is
going to complain about what our house looks like. That was a terrible
strain on mecompounded by the knowledge that I'm not up to what it would
have taken to fix it myself.
Thank you, Rich. It doesn' t feel like I'm doing much these days. I got off
track with the men working here. Now the work is stalled because of the
rainand I'm still not making any inroads. I have to remind myself that the
auctions count as declutteringbut the stuff goes out of here at a trickle
compared to a major sort & toss session. I use the excuse that if I start a
major declutteringand the men come back to work on the houseI'll get
paralyzed in the middle of it. I almost miss not having boxes of paper to
shred (did I say that??!!!)
Brenda"
    @I_was_the_catH: "news:6XGyc.25341$<email_address>
<quote>
under
I asked out salesman about thishe said it wasn't necessary since our
shingles have mildewicide (sp?) in them. Mom and I looked at some houses in
the newer part of our development that looked like they got the
architectural type shinglesthose houses have been up about 10 yearssome
less. But none of them have nildewand none of them have the electric vents
or turbine ventsthey all had ridge vents. Funny how you don't usually look
at roofs on other people's houses.
Brenda"
    @I_was_the_catH: "news:<email_address>
<quote>
husband
We love it. I wish we'd gotten one a long time ago. All of that talk about
needing a south window of clear glass put me off when I first heard about
it.
Brenda"
    @I_was_the_catH: "news:<email_address>
<quote>
I'm looking forward to having a flat roof againMom picked out the
shinglesthey're charcoal gray blend. It's near the color of the original
roofand will look much nicer than tan shingles with mildew streaks on
them. I can see that some of our shingles have even curled upit's an ugly
roofto quote Mom.
You can get all kinds of music from the latest to oldies to classical to
opera. There are even talk radio showsconservative and liberaljust a
whole bunch of stuffeven one dedicated to the 1940's.
I really need to get a pic taken of Rusty. He's finding his place in the
family now. It's clear to me that he wasn't handled much. The other day I
got him to sit on my lap while I petted himhe started to purrgot a
confused look on his faceand jumped down.
Thank you, Yvette. I haven't been able to "see" any progress other than
maintaining lately. I'm frustrated because I haven't been able to get to
work on the bathrooms yetgot paralyzed by vinyl installers, I guess.
Brenda"
    @I_was_the_catH: "news:caedvi$5vf$<email_address>
<quote>
Thank you. The house is getting there. I'm getting impatient, though.
I think I was motivated to re-check our budget due to what seemed like a
hemorrage in our bank account due to the house upgrades. Even though we had
the moneyit didn't feel good to spend itso I started looking for ways to
help our bank account recover more quickly from our recent spending spree.
they
Chicken"
I like the butler analogy. Rusty is like that. He's still not sure what all
of the rules areand hates it when we catch him being silly.
Thank you, melizabeth. How are you feeling lately? Any signs of a baby on
the way yet?
Brenda"
    @invalid: "On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:09:02 GMT, Linda M. Young
<quote>
Thanks for the explanation.  I had not heard of it.  We have
digital radio being pushed in UK, but you need a new radio
set for it.  Digital TV is also pushed hard and the Gov't
intends switching off the old analogue transmitters in,
IIRC, 2010.  We can buy a little gizmo box for this that
sits between the old aerial and the TV that makes digital TV
appear, costs about $100 with extra subscriptions to pay -
still have not done it yet.  Sometimes DB and I are such
luddites ;-))  
Rich
album at <url>
correct to the ususal to mail 654richarc at bigfoot com "
    @I_was_the_catH: "news:<email_address>
<quote>
We're going digital on the TV toosome day. I'd like to know what the point
is of having a great pictureif it's not interesting to watch.
Brenda"
    @invalid: "On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:07:00 -0500, "I was the cat"
<quote>
That sounds nasty, I am glad you are mending.
Snipped - thanks for explaining satellite radio too.
<Chokes & splutters>  Excuse me, not doing much!!!!! You are
supervising / contract managing major home renovations.
Contracting and getting the work done, saving future
maintenance worries and making your home secure and sound -
plus dailies and looking after mum and pets and self -  that
is doing just plenty in my book!  
Rich
album at <url>
correct to the ususal to mail 654richarc at bigfoot com "
    @invalid: "On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:17:23 -0500, "I was the cat"
<quote>
Dad has digital TV and seems to like playing with the remote
control using these complicated interactive menus more than
actually watching the TV ;-))
Rich
album at <url>
correct to the ususal to mail 654richarc at bigfoot com "
    @calindasinclair: "<quote>
stereo
adapterand
dogs
For those that like music while surfing the 'net, it also works with
your computer.  A good friend of mine added XFM (I think that is the
one) to her work computer and loved it so much, that she gave it as
a gift to her son for Christmas.  I heard he loved it.
This is where I probably would like something like this, as I listen
to music more while online that most any other time.  Someday :)
Cal~"
    @I_was_the_catH: "news:<email_address>
<quote>
My computer isn't powerful enough (and I use a dialup) to do most multimedia
type stuff while online at the same time. I tried Real and it spends all of
its time buffering.
Brenda"
    @calindasinclair: "<quote>
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This is not through any online service, you don't even have to be
connected to the internet.  You simply use the computer to control
the device.  Here's a link, for those who might be interested in
using it via the computer:
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      Satellite Radio For Your Computer
      XM Satellite Radio is America's most popular satellite radio
service for the car, for the home, and now...for the computer.
Introducing XM PCR.
      While you work, while you play, XM PCR delivers the ultimate
computer audio experience. It provides total control - an
interactive listening experience like no other, giving you full
access to XM Radio's over 120 channels of pure digital crystal clear
sounding, and simply amazing radio. XM PCR is easy. Simply use the
PC display to control and customize what you listen to.
      XM PCR doesn't hog bandwidth. In fact, it doesn't even require
an internet connection. It's not Internet, it's Satellite Radio.
And, it won't slow down your computer either.
            � Over 120 channels in 2004 of pure digital, and simply
amazing radio for only $9.99 per month.
            � No Internet connection needed. No buffering delays.
It's not Internet, it's Satellite Radio.
            � Doesn't slow down your computer.
            � See everything currently playing across XM's over 120
channels.
            � Save song titles and artist names. And be alerted when
your favorite artist is playing on another channel.
            � Customizable display to show your favorite channels.
            � Let's you play games and surf the web without
restriction, while listening to over 120 channels of digital radio.
            � Perfect second radio. Add it on the XM Family Plan for
$6.99 per month for basic service.
            This is so cool, Brenda.  I will have to seriously
resist getting something like this for now, but as soon as I can I
would really enjoy this.  :-)
            I can see why you and your mother are so happy with it.
Cal~
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    @calindasinclair: "Did anyone else get that as attachments?  If so, I *sincerely*
apologize.  I have no idea why it did that.  I didn't change any of
my settings and that's never happened in the past (as far as I know,
anyway) when I've copied and pasted something from a website.
Again, I am sorry.  Below is the post without the attachments as
intended.
Cal~
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