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Jan. 26th, 2015 08:35 amHad a nice visit with my friend J. She arrived late afternoon on Saturday. We had tea and then went out in the rain for a meal. When we got back, we settled in for a night with a dvd and wine. Sounds good, right?
It turned into a bit of a farce!
Put the dvd in the machine (Grand Budapest Hotel). Wait. No remote control. I couldn't find it anywhere. We looked under furniture, under sofa cushions, in drawers and on top of the fridge. Everywhere it should be and most places it shouldn't. Still nothing. How difficult can it be to lose a little white remote control? My next idea was, let's see if we can set up the universal remote that i use for the PVR and the Tv. Surfed to Eastlink Cable's site, found the spot where they have codes for each remote model. We tried all of them for the one i have for a dvd player. Nada. Zip. Nothing. Tried a few more just for good measure.
Oh well. We'll have to find a movie on tv. Flipped through the On Demand menu and found something I knew was good. Started it but while we were getting sorted out, I tried a few more codes for one of the other remote control models. BINGO! At least, it turned the machine off which is a good sign right? You'd think so. We flipped back over to the DVD feed and put Budapest back in. But the dvd seemed to be sort of stuck, it wanted to restart from the beginning and did I want to do this? Yes or No please. I couldn't get the remote to do it. Pressed OK, pressed play and a number of other buttons. All the others that would control the dvd player worked but it wasn't having any of this. I think at one point we did get the menu after stopping and starting it a few times but it still wouldn't "go". We were about to give up but I thought we should try another disk just to see if it was the disk that was at fault and it was! Another one played without problems.
Ok. then let's see what other movie we have here that we can watch. We picked one that i had out which I hadn't watched yet. It was an older one called The Good Night. It was bought cheap somewhere, I forget where. Seemed a decent cast with Simon Pegg, Gwynneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman and Danny deVito. And Penelope Cruz who played a woman that Martin Freeman kept dreaming about. In fact, he became obsessed with his dreams about her and found out how to work it so that he would keep dreaming of her, something called Lucid Dreaming. When he actually finds the woman in real life, naturally she's not the perfect ethereal being he's dreaming about. Basically, the movie was shit. Nothing really happened. There seemed to be very little point to it. We watched it all, in hope something interesting would happen and it would pick up. Nope. And let's just say here that Gwynneth should never EVER wear long black hair again. Tragic. (she was the long suffering girlfriend, Simon Pegg was the best friend who was a bit of an ass)
Anyway, I have no idea where the flipping remote is and thinking abou it, the last time i know for sure i had it was in September when Graham was over. I don't use the machine that often. My suspicions are that it might have fallen off the cabinet where I usually keep it into a waste basket and it got tossed. Who knows? I found a replacement on eBay and have ordered it which probably means I'll find it!
Anyway. My friend stayed over and we went to the wedding show yesterday. A large exhibit of wedding related vendors and ideas and if you were looking for a wedding dress, they had them really *really* cheap. I saw dresses for anywhere between $150 to $500 and when you consider some of these confections run to thousands, that's pretty good. I imagine they are older models, not the latest thing in the shops. One booth had some bridesmaids dresses for $30. All the wedding dresses were the white/ivory type. There were some veils, headpieces, jewellry, etc. Other booths included photographers, event planners, disk jockeys, makeup and skin care, some of the local hotels and wedding venues as well. Caterers, decorations. It was all really nice. There were some really beautiful things. J and I agreed, though, that if you hadn't had much already planned and went there, you'd quickly become overwhelmed with all the choices and options. There were good deals if you booked things at the show. THey had a fashion show as well which we watched for a bit. Most of the dresses were nice, a few were boring or blah, and one in particular that I saw was really stunning. I can't really describe it now but it was my favourite and if i was 25 again and thinner, it would be my dream dress. They did have a plus size model, too, which pleased me and her dresses, both bridal and bridesmaid, were really nice. One bridesmaid dress she wore had a peacock blue bodice with a floaty chiffon skirt over a plain colour skirt underneath and the colours were just beautiful. We noticed that almost every dress was strapless, or a vast majority anyway.
We enjoyed the afternoon and collected some magazines and business cards for perusal later on. I doubt i'll take anything back from the show but you never know.
It turned into a bit of a farce!
Put the dvd in the machine (Grand Budapest Hotel). Wait. No remote control. I couldn't find it anywhere. We looked under furniture, under sofa cushions, in drawers and on top of the fridge. Everywhere it should be and most places it shouldn't. Still nothing. How difficult can it be to lose a little white remote control? My next idea was, let's see if we can set up the universal remote that i use for the PVR and the Tv. Surfed to Eastlink Cable's site, found the spot where they have codes for each remote model. We tried all of them for the one i have for a dvd player. Nada. Zip. Nothing. Tried a few more just for good measure.
Oh well. We'll have to find a movie on tv. Flipped through the On Demand menu and found something I knew was good. Started it but while we were getting sorted out, I tried a few more codes for one of the other remote control models. BINGO! At least, it turned the machine off which is a good sign right? You'd think so. We flipped back over to the DVD feed and put Budapest back in. But the dvd seemed to be sort of stuck, it wanted to restart from the beginning and did I want to do this? Yes or No please. I couldn't get the remote to do it. Pressed OK, pressed play and a number of other buttons. All the others that would control the dvd player worked but it wasn't having any of this. I think at one point we did get the menu after stopping and starting it a few times but it still wouldn't "go". We were about to give up but I thought we should try another disk just to see if it was the disk that was at fault and it was! Another one played without problems.
Ok. then let's see what other movie we have here that we can watch. We picked one that i had out which I hadn't watched yet. It was an older one called The Good Night. It was bought cheap somewhere, I forget where. Seemed a decent cast with Simon Pegg, Gwynneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman and Danny deVito. And Penelope Cruz who played a woman that Martin Freeman kept dreaming about. In fact, he became obsessed with his dreams about her and found out how to work it so that he would keep dreaming of her, something called Lucid Dreaming. When he actually finds the woman in real life, naturally she's not the perfect ethereal being he's dreaming about. Basically, the movie was shit. Nothing really happened. There seemed to be very little point to it. We watched it all, in hope something interesting would happen and it would pick up. Nope. And let's just say here that Gwynneth should never EVER wear long black hair again. Tragic. (she was the long suffering girlfriend, Simon Pegg was the best friend who was a bit of an ass)
Anyway, I have no idea where the flipping remote is and thinking abou it, the last time i know for sure i had it was in September when Graham was over. I don't use the machine that often. My suspicions are that it might have fallen off the cabinet where I usually keep it into a waste basket and it got tossed. Who knows? I found a replacement on eBay and have ordered it which probably means I'll find it!
Anyway. My friend stayed over and we went to the wedding show yesterday. A large exhibit of wedding related vendors and ideas and if you were looking for a wedding dress, they had them really *really* cheap. I saw dresses for anywhere between $150 to $500 and when you consider some of these confections run to thousands, that's pretty good. I imagine they are older models, not the latest thing in the shops. One booth had some bridesmaids dresses for $30. All the wedding dresses were the white/ivory type. There were some veils, headpieces, jewellry, etc. Other booths included photographers, event planners, disk jockeys, makeup and skin care, some of the local hotels and wedding venues as well. Caterers, decorations. It was all really nice. There were some really beautiful things. J and I agreed, though, that if you hadn't had much already planned and went there, you'd quickly become overwhelmed with all the choices and options. There were good deals if you booked things at the show. THey had a fashion show as well which we watched for a bit. Most of the dresses were nice, a few were boring or blah, and one in particular that I saw was really stunning. I can't really describe it now but it was my favourite and if i was 25 again and thinner, it would be my dream dress. They did have a plus size model, too, which pleased me and her dresses, both bridal and bridesmaid, were really nice. One bridesmaid dress she wore had a peacock blue bodice with a floaty chiffon skirt over a plain colour skirt underneath and the colours were just beautiful. We noticed that almost every dress was strapless, or a vast majority anyway.
We enjoyed the afternoon and collected some magazines and business cards for perusal later on. I doubt i'll take anything back from the show but you never know.
