Snowing — picture taken looking at backyard, neighbors Leyland Cypress trees in distance. See the big globs of snow? See it on flickr, a larger size to appreciate.
–> Photo taken March 1, 2009 < --
This photo on flickr.
Well I am finally Twittering. I’ve ignored it, and was in the living room yesterday when Mike and Mike on ESPN2 was on the television and Golic and Erik Kuselias were talking about things, and got to something that was sent to them about Twitter, and this was one of those “listen up” moments, of course, when they show how dumb they are, or something. They looked really old fogey, not having a clue about Twitter.
I had a clue about Twitter, just figured “why bother” as I have little to do with anyone but me and my family, and my husband is the only one with a phone, everyone else being too young … and so didn’t bother with it.
So the M&M show got me thinking, I know I don’t blog as much as I used to, can’t think of anything to write half-the time or more. My hubby ignores the emails I send him, he ignores my blog posts, he sees some of the txt messages I send to his phone. So maybe Twitter could help me … not just fill-in the gaps between blogging and emails and txt msgs… but create ideas for blogging again, and get my hubby to notice, and maybe get him more communicative with me, and find some other friends out there after all too, maybe.
So I started up with Twitter and had a blank-of-a-time and couldn’t figure out what was going on trying to get my phone verified. So after playing with Twitter, I changed all the stuff on that account to nuthingness and worked at it backwards, using my device, phone, as the starting point, creating an account on the web from my phone number there since I couldn’t tell what it was doing (trying millions, it seems, of times to verify my phone) with my first web profile … The “devices” area of my online account seemed flaky, and just wouldn’t stay, would go away as if I hadn’t even tried to verify my phone # … that’s how it got so messed up on my phone …
So then I go and get an account for my husband, and I click the devices area and get that started, but then left it, not going to his phone at that time.
I finally got my phone making more sense, except it didn’t update my Twitter, then suddenly did, many minutes later, then I got another one of those “reply with your name” Twitter messages and I didn’t bother sending anything (such silly things happened earlier, I just plain wanted it to work with my account on twitter.com/home [as logged in])
To go further, every time I had sent a “stats” command at twitter with my phone I would get “followers: 0 following: 0″ and thus I knew it wasn’t truly connecting to my account.
I know it’s working now, the stats msg is “followers: 1 following: 1″ … I can only hope my account stays connected to my device, but I don’t have a lot of faith, though I have full faith in my hubbies staying true. Whatever that is.
Awhile after I had gotten Frank’s web account set up and us following each other there, I got his device set up and voila, it worked flawlessly, exactly how MINE didn’t from the start. Figures.
Unfortunately now I have to teach Frankiepoo the simple differences of using Twitter on the device, and when not to use Twitter, but use straight regular txting. Maybe when he understand he’ll say, “ewww, I don’t want to Twitter at all!”
I hope not. I have to fight to get myself out there and sometimes he seems to be more introverted than me. FWIW.
I got the new U2 album, No Line on the Horizon, at Target the other day, the 4th of March, 2009. I wanted to get it the day it came out, but didn’t, and because of the time we got home on the 4th and the way I felt the next day and the fact that we then went out again and didn’t get home until later, I hadn’t ripped the CD into my computer until this morning.
My hubby told me U2 would be on David Letterman all week as the band. I actually just haven’t been up at night that late, but did wake up to the end of David Letterman on our bedroom TV the other night, and it was almost over, and there was U2 all ready to start playing a song … and it peeked my interest and so I stayed awake and found the remote and hit “record” (DirecTivo) as the song started playing. It was incredible and I have finally started listening to the album and it was that song from DL the other night that is the second song on the album, “Magnificent” and it is so very good. I love that song. It’s the only one I have heard them do from the album, the only thing of them I saw on David Letterman.
I would have listened to this CD in the vehicle right away, but our vehicle’s CD player is broken (we bought our 2005 Suburban used and it had a CD stuck in the drive, and we just haven’t been able to figure out what we want to do about it, replace it with the exact same factory install, what the Chevy dealers say is our only option with them; or get something else installed from the aftermarket.) FWIW.
Most of my U2 collection is on vinyl. This album is the 3rd on CD that I have. I haven’t gotten everything of theirs from this more modern era … but I probably will go back and find it at CD Warehouse, and get the stuff I love from the 80′s on CD too.
We had a lot of rain the past few days, and then snow, 5″, yesterday (Sunday, March 1, 2009) and during the snow storm on Sunday the power actually went out a few times, just for a couple of seconds, and a flicker or two here and there. All worked fine with our electronics, they are plugged into surge protection strips, not expensive ones, but decent ones. We did notice though that the Wii system wasn’t powered on (red power light on, meaning it’s plugged in, and also the cooling base we have has blue lights and the fan running all the time … all was silent.)
I wasn’t told this all until this afternoon, but I didn’t have a chance to look at it until we got back from running errands this afternoon/evening. So I checked the plugin area and all was plugged in, so I unplugged and put the plug into another outlet and still no power. I tried holding this button down, that one, leaving it a few minutes, changing outlets again … nothing.
I searched online, and found other people complaining of no power and some answers to leave it unplugged for 30 minutes, or 2 hours, etc. They’d say that worked for them. So I didn’t have the patience to wait that long at that point, and had seen someone mention the fuse going bad on their Wii system and that they just replace it and it works fine, but no mention of where that fuse is located.
So I searched that information out and still didn’t find anything, but I put the computer down and picked up the box and looked around the Wii case and saw one external spot with a little phillips screw and a place to open it up, so I unscrewed it and took the piece out and it was a battery, a flat round one, like a cmos battery in a desktop computer, or in a flat remote. I looked at it and put it right back. Screwed the screw back in. Went to tell my husband what I had done so far, went back, plugged it in and voila! The power red light was on, and it powered up fine. I put it back by the tv and hooked it up and it works fine and all the Mii’s and stuff are there.
So, I think it was the battery that reset it, since I didn’t leave it alone for more than a few minutes at a time, and that’s the thing I did last, before it worked. FWIW.
So try that, if you can’t get your Wii system to power up.
