What a great New Years Eve. The Flyers actually kicked the snot out of the Carolina Hurricanes.
5-3. What a perfect New Years Eve!!
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After another great game, the Eagles have finished this season with a 10-6 record. Not the best, but after they really hit the wall I didn’t think they would win a total of 6 games.
Atlanta 17 Philadelphia 24. On to the Playoffs!
Thanks to the wonderful Cowboys, the Eagles are now the 2006 NFC East Champions. I love rooting for any team that plays against Dallas. I love it when T.O. has to eat crow. He was yet another non-factor in this game against the 2-13 Detroit Lions.
Make that the 3-13 Lions as they beat the Cowboys 39-31. It was a really good game, and I haven’t stopped shaking yet. The lead changed too many times for me to remember and it was really starting to look bad for the Lions. But they won and that’s all that matters.
Once again, the Eagles are the NFC East Champs once again (5 out of the last 6 years).
Although I can’t say much for the playoffs. I doubt that will last long.
I really did get a lot of Christmas presents. Really great gifts. However, no matter how hard the gift givers tried, they just couldn’t give me exactly what I wanted. What did I really want?
That’s right. TO acting like a 5 year old.
Waaaaaaaaaaa I wasn’t involved early on in the game. Coach didn’t call the plays that made me look good.
Waaaaaaaaaaa Of course we lost, the quarterback didn’t throw me the ball all the time.
Waaaaaaaaaaa I dropped a lot of key passes. Wait, I shouldn’t have said that.
That was the greatest gift ever. The Eagles sweeping the Cowboys. Better yet, the Eagles totally sweeping T.O.
I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. See you in 2007.
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Of course, I can’t speak for the Windows drivers and/or software, but the Linux support is wonderful. Recompile lirc with the streamzap support and you are all set. There are plenty of MythTV config files and .lircrc files to be found. However, if you are stuck, leave a comment with your real email address and I will get them to you ASAP.
The Flyers are back to totally suckage. They are 8-21-4. That means 8 wins, 25 losses.
I’ll say that again. 8 wins.
Suck suck suck suck suck and suck.
Anyway. I finally got around to turning my old home server into another MythTV frontend. That now brings the system to one Master backend (2 tuner cards), one Slave backend (2 tuner cards) combination frontend, and one standalone frontend. For years I’ve only ever had MythTV on the bedroom TV, but it really was time to move it to the living room as well. So far it is working great, but since the system has no tuner cards, I was in need of a remote. I did some searching and found a few that are supposed to work great. I ordered one and it should be arriving any day now. I’ll post how good it is if and when I get it working. Otherwise I will complain about it.
I rarely purchase much from eBay. Most of the stuff there scares me. I don’t care how many positive responses a seller gets. It’s just not in my nature to trust anyone; even more-so when that person is a stranger. Which is why I don’t generally buy anything from eBay that I need badly. I usually buy sports memorabilia and such. However, I have been having some problems with my laptop battery lately. I checked out a new replacement directly from HP.
$148.
That’s cheaper then the battery for my truck. That surely doesn’t sound worth it. After a bit of searching, I finally came across a “new in box direct replacement” from some seller in California. $33 plus shipping. It’s worth a shot at at price.
So far it’s working great. It was a generic replacement, so the section of the battery that fit into and locked on the side of the laptop itself didn’t fit properly. However, that piece slides right off; as does the same piece on my old battery. Switch-O-Change-O and all is wonderful. I charged it and the battery is running just fine, giving me about 4 hours of run time.
I am still shocked. The Eagles actually played and won a tough game. It looked shaky for quite a while, but the defense finally stepped up and put points on the board.
They are actually still in the playoff race, and if they win their next two games (Dallas and Atlanta) they will actually win the division. I seriously doubt they will beat the Cowboys, but I can certainly hope. That game is on Christmas day. I really hate to yell profanities on Christmas day…
I’ve been having more foot problems lately. Bad enough that I have been walking around with a cane. It’s really fun and I love the abuse from the people at work.
However, it was bad enough last night that I was crawling around the apartment instead of walking. That was also really fun. I scheduled an appointment at a podiatrist tomorrow morning in hopes of getting to the bottom of this.
I was at least productive at home today. I updated some servers at work and did a little user maintenance as well. When that was finished, I finally upgraded MythTV to the most recent version (.20). Everything went fairly well until I got to the MythWeb part. There are several different versions (.20 patch releases, etc) and I couldn’t find the versions that matched. After some searching, however, I was back in business and working well.