Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
do-it-yourself

bathroom

Brian took some pictures of the house recently so I thought this might be a good opportunity to show you all our recently remodeled bathroom.

vanity 1
vanity 2
tub

As you can see, the vanity still needs drawers. And, the ceiling still needs trim, but other than that, it is done. I don’t know why he didn’t take a picture of the toilet area. I can only surmise that since our bathroom is so small, he couldn’t get a good angle on it. Nothing exciting there anyway–just a toilet, magazine rack, toilet paper holder and our cool Gashlycrumb Tinies poster hanging above the toilet tank.

movies

primer

I don’t think I mentioned this before, but our two year old living room television conked out the day before the Super Bowl. Great timing. After $100 in repairs, we got it back this week. So much for my high opinion of Sony… Luckily we have backup televisions throughout the house so we didn’t miss any of our regularly scheduled programming.

Last night, we got to watch our first movie (in a month) on the “big” screen (as compared to the 13″ tv we’ve been watching, our 20″ tv now seems quite luxurious). Primer was the flick. It was a little too ambitious for my tastes. I don’t like having to think quite that much in order to be entertained. The fact that the film was made for $7000 and all of the actors in it were in their first roles was a little impressive, though.

The movie was about these engineers who invent a time machine. They get a little greedy and things go down the shitter for them from there. Here is a good description of the movie’s convoluted timeline (in case you happen to watch it and didn’t get everything–like me).

tech

i have a need for speed

Our internet connection seemed to be lagging a bit lately. So, I did some research into the current plans AtlanticBB has to offer and compared it to what we currently have. It was a real eye opener. We were grandfathered under a plan from the previous cable company, Charter, and had an internet connection so slow that it wasn’t even offered anymore. After discussing our options, we decided it would be worth the money to upgrade to their middle-tier internet offering. I made the call at lunch and they’ve already made their adjustments and now we’re blazing. I had to tweak some of the settings on our side to get things working properly, but it wasn’t difficult.

Here are some useful tools: This url allows you to test your upload and download speeds. I noticed a definite improvement after AtlanticBB made their changes, but we still weren’t getting the results we should’ve. I then went here and ran the test listed in step 3 (from speedguide.net). Some of our numbers were off and this was causing our internet to run slower than it should. I used their recommendations and changed the settings with DrTCP, which I got here.

Tweak away…

gardening & landscaping

spring?

Well, it might not be spring yet, but I started planting stuff for my garden today, so as far as I’m concerned, it’s close enough. I planted some broccoli and brussels sprouts. I’m anxious to see how things go this year because I went through a definite learning curve last year–my last batch of plants definitely fared better than my first due to changing some of my methods.

More gardening updates will surely follow.

movies

sin city

We watched this movie last night–while drinking Margaritas, of course. We got a late start on it because I was IM’ing TurboTax support in an effort to find out why one of my totals isn’t being transferred to my 1040 correctly. No luck there. I’m going to try deleting and re-entering some more data today and see if that works. If not, I’ll have to call their support line because the online support staff has given up at this point. Terrific.

So, between going to bed late and the fact that Brian and I got up early to do yoga (yes, Brian’s jumped on the yoga bandwagon, too), I’m too friggin’ tired to write a movie review. Suffice it to say, this was a very cool movie. It was like a comic book come to life. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising, because the movie was based off of a comic book, but I mean, it really looked like a comic book come to life. The movie was shot in black and white, with occasional splashes of color. I’ve never seen anything like it before.

Anyway, if you want to read a good review, the Flick Filosopher has one.