Happy Easter everyone.  Hope it was a good one.  Laura & I spent the weekend together working around the house.  "Working around the house" includes Cutting the grass, dusting for ants, hanging new Wire-rack shelves in our laundry room, spring-cleaning of all the closets, storage of all the clothes that don’t fit anymore, and many, many bags and boxes of garbage awaiting pickup in the garage.

But it wasn’t all work.  Laura lucked out this weekend and after 20 finger-numbing minutes of digging in the ice cream Freezer at Wal-Mart, victoriously returned with two pints of Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream.  Ever since I first heard of thing I’ve wanted to try it, and I have to admit it doesn’t disappoint.  Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Fudge, Caramel, and Waffle-cone pieces.. It’s delicious. 

This weekend almost marked Laura’s first admission that the MythTV is pretty kewl ™.  Not only for it’s ability to automatically mark and skip commercials with incredible accuracy (We watched several episodes of House & Dresden Files this weekend, as well as Lewis Black: Black on Broadway and Bill Engvall’s 15-Degrees Off Cool), but for the ease with which I could schedule new recordings when she asked me to.  We were watching TV when a commercial for Lewis Black’s special came on and she said "We should watch that".  Knowing we’ld probably be busy, I grabbed the remote and turned on the MythTV, flipped over to the Program Guide, selected the show (24 hours in advance), and told it to record it.  Then flipped back to the live TV.  I think I’ve made a convert of her :)   Unfortunately, with all this new interest comes several more scheduling conflicts.  I’m gonna have to add in a 2nd tuner soon, I’ve just got to decide between another PVR-150 or a USB Tuner.

So as I sit at work and listen to Polka Floyd, I think it was a pretty good easter weekend.
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