Spring Break 2009

Darling Daughter is home. It’s Spring Break time. You can tell Theresa is home because there is a big bag on the stairs and another one the couch.

While away at school, she was watching TV episodes on her laptop through Netflix. They have an thing where you can watch instantly; they stream the show or movie to your computer. Anyhow, Theresa decided she wanted to watch the shows on the TV. The project to enable her to do so took a couple of hours.

First it required her to go out to buy a cable so she could hook her laptop to the TV. Then she had to find a wireless mouse so she could control the computer from the couch. Then there seemed to be a problem getting the sound to work and how could you watch the show on a nice big TV, yet listen to crappy laptop speakers. Her first idea was to rig something up with a regular, stereo speaker. That didn’t work. I said she should just take my computer speakers which are pretty good ones. This required crawling under my computer desk, unplugging things, looking for an extension cord and getting them set up in the living room.

8 hours later, she is watching The Office through her laptop on the TV. Hopefully Frank won’t kill himself tripping over wires when he gets home from work.

Now for one of the great blog comments. First we will hit Dave’s question: “What website do you visit on a regular basis that we would never expect the Monkster to be interested in?”

I’m afraid the answer is boring. That’s why it’s buried here. There is not one single bookmarked website that anyone would be surprised to find on my computer. Not one. Seriously.