Teenager's Time Warner HD DVR replaced

So I arrived home to find that the Teenager was griping that the sound on his TV was cutting in and out randomly.

I messed around with the menus on both the TV and the DVR to no avail. One phone call to Time Warner later and we were on the way to the local Time Warner office to get the boxed replaced.  Replaced it was and we came back to the house where the Teenager set it all up once again.

Presto.  No more sound fade out the rest of the night and there ws joy in Mudville once again and order was restored to the Universe.  I hope we are able to enjoy HD content in the house without any further problems.  So far, I have NOT been impressed with the QoS coming from Time Warner.

Par for the course I suspect, what with the the Monopoly powers enjoyed by Time Warner in our area. Double *sigh*.

Isa stops by
In other items of note, Isa and Tori stopped by after 1800 hours to give me temporary access to a picture of my cousin Terri for me to scan so that I could uploaded to a blog post I made recently commemorating what would have been Terri's 45th birthday this past November 14.

A Visit to PC Club
Also, before going to Mom's house for a visit (where I replaced her Wireless mouse with a wired, USB model) , I stopped by PC Club in Hawthorne to see about determining the cause of failure on the last working (or so I thought) PC that I had in my garage.  No Joy.  It would seem the unit has a bad motherboard.

Considering that PC Club has brand-new 2Ghz Celeron PC's with an 80GB HD, 512 MB of RAM and a copy of XP home for $299, there is no way in hell I am going to put any money in to this PC I brought in tonight.  It will be disassembled and the HD's backed up as soon as I have some time.