It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Extra points of you can tell me what movie we are watching.
Hint, it’s NOT Christmas Vacation. 🙂

Extra points of you can tell me what movie we are watching.
Hint, it’s NOT Christmas Vacation. 🙂

Slumming it on generator power due to our local Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS).

Just finished the fiber install at our mountain home, switching from copper wire to fiber for our internet. This is a photo of the line with the blue protective coating.

This is photo of the actual fiber that has been stripped of the coating.
It’s truly amazing that this tiny fiber line can fulfill the needs of a single family home, all the way up to a large corporate building.
Finally, the world is my oyster!

The ol’ 55″ TV took a dump, and needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, they don’t make 3D TVs anymore, and I have well over a hundred 3D movies on bluray. I was never happy with the old TV’s 4K HDR processing and still prefer 3D over 4K all day, every day.
And now the good news… the higher end OLED TV’s have really come down in price. I was able to go where no man (well, me anyways) has gone before, taking it up a notch to purchase features that were previously out of my price range.
Enter the Sony 65″ Class A8H Series OLED 4K UHD Smart Android TV
This thing is simply beautiful and the OLED technology gives me a picture I have only dreamed of. Android TV built in which is better and faster than ever. This thing communicates flawlessly with all my other Sony components and even has a Netflix calibration mode for streaming in 4K.
Even though I use an external surround sound system, I think it’s pretty cool that this beast utilizes a technology Sony calls “Acoustic Surface Audio” which actually uses the glass to distribute the sound in a surround type environment, putting the sound at the correct sources on the screen.
To be perfectly honest, I may have shed a tear or two when losing the ability to watch 3D and I hope and pray for a 3D revival at sometime in the future, but this 4K thing is starting to grow on me.

Grizz is loving all the people time he’s getting during these crazy stay at home days, and there’s nothing better than a morning nap in front of the fire.

Damn… The parking in North Hollywood is getting ridiculous!

So, I was very excited when my wife told me she finally planted a little cactus in my new Thanos Infinity Gauntlet planter I wanted to put on my desk at work. But when I saw the result I immediately realized that bringing this to work would most certainly get me called into HR.


Do you see it yet?
My daughter is loving the fancy new steps on the old beast. These things swing down nice and low, then tuck up tight underneath and out of sight.
They even light up so it’s easy to see them during our dark mountain nights.

Yesterday, our little girl received the Presidential Gold Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence for keeping a 4.0 for the year. What better way to celebrate the day but to take her out on her first motorcycle ride!
Today, the final day of elementary school, she wanted to ride in on the motorcycle.


She’s hooked, and loving every minute of it!