Another sneak peak at some things that I did on my vacation:

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Dave Barry book blog post, drive-in movie post (which might sound familiar to loyal readers here), and pictures of puzzles I did the last couple of days.

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2 books read, 1 restaurant tried (which helped me to complete an item)! Woo.

I updated my 101 things blog. It's interesting how these items have started to finish themselves! I guess the list is kind of embedded in my brain after going over it so many times.

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I updated my 101 things blog if anyone wants to check it out:

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I can tell I'm tired because I'm too tired to stay up and watch the election results! Geez.

Today, I:

~ Got up at 7am. No snoozing.
~ Took Heather to her doctor's exams & took her home again (safe and sound) (7:40-12:30)
~ Drove back to PA from MD (lovely traffic before York)
~ Voted (~3:15)
~ Worked for 4 hours (3:45 - 7:45)
~ 8-10: Unloaded the car, unloaded my bags, packed 2 items I sold over the last 24 hours, showered, ate dessert, and caught up on my TV.

Now I'm going to pack my lunch for tomorrow and go to bed.

I officially have an actual TV (27", too!). YAY! However, I don't want to set it up until I have all the necessary cables and other things that I need. I don't want to have to take out the TV to change my set up later.

Here's what I need to simply watch TV:
- Composite cable with female adapters to extend the jacks on the back of the TV.
- VCR/DVD Player - I need recommendations (even just your fav brand would be helpful)!

The next step, and part of my 101things is that I want to transfer video from my VCR to my computer. Originally, I was hoping to use my camcorder as the "middleman" here, but it doesn't look like that is a possibility. So, from the looks of it, I need a either a TV Tuner card or something that can do it's job.

I'm mulling over the idea of getting one of these:
http://www.usbvideoadapter.com/
or this:
http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=CTX-002&cats=125&catid=614%2C125

But I'm also thinking it might be better to get some serious hardware like these cards:
http://hauppauge.com/pages/compare/compare_pvr.html

I'm out of PCI slots, so I'd have to take something out to put this in. Not a huge deal, because the wireless card will probably be the one to go since I've got the ethernet plugged directly into my PC at the moment, but I'm not looking forward to lots of PCI card switching.

Anyway - all recommendations and suggestions are welcome! :-)

I drove down to MD yesterday for the day to go to the MD Ren Faire with Heather and to meet up with Jac (quembelle). It was amazingly crowded (so says Heather) compared to the weekend that she, Cindi, and Elga went. I figured it could have been worse. *shrug*

After I got my ticket (Heather had a two day pass from the last time), we waited by the front gate for a while, but no Jac! :-( We finally gave up (Hey, so what happened to ya?) and I wished I had gotten her cell #. *tear* I hoped we would randomly bump into each other, but no such luck.

Anyway, Heather and I wandered around. I was on a quest to find the turkey leg place. YUMM TURKEY LEG! And Heather got a massage. YUMMM mass- wait, no. Anyway, it was fun. We wandered some more, I got chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick and one of those orange icee thingies (which I successfully ate the whole thing but the peel). We watched some shows and looked in the shops and stuff. It was fun. Around 5-5:30 we headed out (after the witch trial - LOLIES). It took a while to get out of the parking "lot" (read: dusty field), but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Then we went back to Heather's and I got my car and we went to dinner at Chik-Fil-A (WOOOOO). That was good. And yummy. From there we went our separate ways and I noticed that Heather's left backup light is out (possibly the brake light that goes with it). (PS HEATHER DON"T FORGET ABOUT THAT).

On the way home, I managed to get turned around twice. That's what happens when you are tired and dumb. Ironically, I didn't get messed up on 695. Silly Catherine. (went south on 97 and almost went over the bay bridge and went south on 83 and almost ended up in baltimore. doh) Was only about 20 minutes out of the way, total though.

Anyway, between being dehydrated and allergied from all the dust at the faire, wasn't feeling that great when I got home, but now I'm feeling better, except my nose feels yucky.

Today I've got a couple of CraigsList pick-ups today (some X-stitch stuff, and hopefully a real, live(well not so much) TV! dudes) and I'm thinking of con-ing mike into joining me since he's got the day off. He should be done sleeping soon, I hope.

I finished 2 things this weekend. They weren't big things, but they are done. :-)

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"borrowed" from peopleses

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 9/30/07).
As usual,
· bold what you have read,
· italicise what you started but couldn't finish,
· strike through what you couldn't stand.
· underline those you would like to read.

The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the unread tag for that book.

( wooooo )

This list will be nice and helpful when I'm trying to figure out what book to read next.

I just finished reading Valley of the Dolls. I've got an entry about it over on my 101 things blog...

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I need to read something a bit less emotionally exhausting next.

#46 - Read 10 books recommended by friends, no questions asked.

This one is pretty straight forward, but first I need suggestions of books! I'd like to do one book, per person to start off, so comment with a book you would recommend I read.

1) Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn (Recommended by Jacquin)
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Comment with your recommendations over on blogspot. Here:
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I decided I would post about it here instead of creating a feed.. this forces you people to read about it. :-P

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Well, I decided that this sounded like the most productive type of meme/blogging that I could possibly do, so why not do it?

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Unfortunately, at this point I'm only a bit past halfway in thinking of 101 things to do. I've got a lot of short term stuff, and a couple long term things, but not much in the middle. I'll probably break it out into categories once I have 101 things, but counting is easier with them all mangled together at the moment. (I've got them in a numbered list, of course).

Any suggestions? I already perused some random people's 101 things blogs to look for ideas.