They’ve just announced that they will no longer be sending out scheduling info for ReplayTV units… while we will be able to manually schedule recordings on a VCR-level recording capability, we will no longer be able to find, to search, to see summaries, to do any of those so many things that our Replay very effectively provided for a fair number of years now. When I was thinking about upgrading to FIOS half a year back, I decided not to because it wouldn’t work with this device.
So now we must decide – get some other DVR, move to a standard cable DVR with various increased costs…. or maybe it’s time to go for the full upgrade, finally go big flat screen HD setup…. but I’m going to hate paying for something month after month. Sigh.
(We had a lifetime deal for the service; apparently, they did not anticipate just how long we would live!)
They’re killing my TV!
Also, boring.
Just heard a newsman refer to the Vietnam War as “controversial”. Aren’t all wars, by definition, “controversy”? I mean, if everyone’s on the same side, it makes for a very short war indeed…
Today’s deep thought
If G-d hadn’t wanted us to watch the Tony Awards, he would not have invented the fast forward button.
After a long pause – a meatloaf!
My 6 year old daughter has been a little reluctant about meatloaf, so to get her on my side, I asked her to join in with me on building this one.
Ingredients:
- 20 ounces of ground turkey
- the last few bread crumbs in a canister
- leftover rice from a packaged orange chicken dinner a few nights back – included either soy or lima beans, and orange and yellow carrots
- one egg, extra large
- half of the frozen packet of gravy we had left over from our Thanksgiving turkey
- a 6 year old’s handful-and-a-half of golden raisins (a variation from our usual use of non-golden raisins)
- three or four potato wedges left over from last night’s Monday Night Special – a deal at a local supermarket where we get a rotisserie chicken, a pound of potato salad, a pound of potato wedges, four rolls, and a 2-liter soft drink for $7.99. My young assistant wanted to add pieces of the chicken, but remembered that too late.
- the remnants of a bottle of Classico Tomato & Basil sauce, at her urging.
- whatever was remaining in a packet of Trader Giotto’s Quattro Fromagio
We put this all in a pie plate, to make a pie-shaped meatloaf (which I’m actually wary of, as it’s too much surface area for the volume, too much crunchy edge for the soft innards), spreading the tomato sauce across the top, and adding the cheese to the top in mid-cooking (making it arguably a cheeseburger pie rather than a meatloaf). Cooked at 375 until it looked like it didn’t need any more cooking.
Result: quite yummy! The best meatloaf in a long while, with my collaborator judging it to be the best she ever had.
