Big Breakfast in Beulaville

Big Breakfast in Beulaville

The Dotseys and the Lambeths packed up into the Lambethmobile and went to see Amanda’s grandparents in Beulaville for breakfast today.  They fix a good country breakfast of eggs, grits, country ham, biscuits and cheese biscuits every Saturday.  Phil and Karen stopped by too. Once we got back and the girls went down for a […]

Dropping Cable: A Suitable Computer

My remote keyboard with a touchpad arrived in the mail today.  Having played with it a little bit, I’m impressed.  The negatives are that it’s a little lighter and cheaper feeling than I thought it would be and the touchpad could be a bit faster/more sensitive.  It’s about the size of a calculator, so you’re […]

Dropping Cable: TV Card

The TV tuner card with HDMI arrived from UPS today.  I was very excited about it and, as soon as I had the time to do it, went to install it in the computer I’d already put in our entertainment center. Imagine my shock when I discovered that PCI slots have changed over the years. […]

Milly Sings

First off, happy third 29th birthday to my sister, Erin.  I called and left her a message with Milly telling her happy birthday. Milly had a very good morning.  After waking up around 9:00, she was very active.  What was the most fun to me is that Amanda called me to the living room to […]

Dropping Cable: The TV Card, HDMI and Remote

I took another step towards dropping cable today.  Two steps, really. I ordered a PCI card with an HDMI slot (to get high quality video from the computer to our HDTV).  This card is also a pretty decent graphics card, has a TV tuner built into it and includes DVR software.  (I read that the […]