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We had every intention of leaving today, but Hitchcockian karma struck with a vengeance around 5:30 am. Barbara had a bout of vertigo and was confined to her back without moving her head. Fortunately, the KOA was nice (although Barbara had no idea), and we spent a leisurely day doing nothing—Barbara slept, and I counted seconds on the clock. She's pretty much back to normal (for her, which is normal; not like me, which would be just weird) and we should be on our way tomorrow.
Add to that, we tried to watch a movie on our Blu Ray player, and the player stopped working. The movie wouldn't load, and the player wouldn't open to allow us to get the disk out. I ended up taking the whole thing apart and forcing the tray open to get the disk. I put the whole thing back together, but it just wouldn’t work. I wonder if that hammer had anything to do with that?
Sir Alfred: Get thee out of the confounded machine!
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Rich Barbara: I had an attack of vertigo once upon a time. Even moving my head from side to side made me dizzy. Mostly went away in a couple of days, but the sawbones said it was an infection of the inner ear. Could have happend when I got water in my ear. BIll: Did you send Sir Alferd to haunt my VHS player? Yesterday it ate my rented tape. I had to pry it loose from the clutches of the payer and then cut off 1 foot of folded and wrinkled tape, glue the ends back together, and return it to the video rental shop. Some future renter will be missing 3 seconds of The Long Trailer, a movie you guys should see..
Shannon Ba-hahaha! Sorry mom wasn't feeling well, but this picture is great!!
Shannon Sounds like you get to make a trip to your favorite store... do they have Fry's in Florida?
Barbara Rich - Sorry about your VHS player. Time to get a DVD player now. Best Buy has them on sale now (as we found out yesterday!). We brought the Long, Long Trailer with us on our first road trip. Really funny. I always liked Lucy.
Mom We got to go to Best Buy yesterday. Dad was in heaven.
Patrick So once upon a time, many, many Tuesday's ago, I spent several fun-filled hours in the waiting room at an RV repair shop in Phoenix while they worked on my rig. Now of course, what else was playing on the TV, but Lucy's Big Trailer Adventure. I thought "Wow, that's a funny (appropriate?) coincidence" and I watched the whole silly thing.......then the movie started again...... clearly somewhat less of a coincidence since they intentionally had the movie playing on a continuous loop in an apparent attempt to put people off the RV scene all together. But now thanks to Bill's Electronics Repair Store blog, I realize even more: their stupid DVD player was stuck and wouldn't eject the disc so it must have just been playing over and over because there was no way to get the stupid thing out of the player. Apparently, in some twisted, shadowy, late night engineering/design meeting, the folks in the international DVD/Blue-Ray manufacturing center, decided that the emergency eject button that used to be included on EVERY computer disc drive, was far to complicated and dangerous to include on stand alone DVD/Blue-Ray players. They cleverly realized that when the players got stuck spinning, that the uninitiated half-wit owners, would unwittingly and accidentally locate and untwist a paperclip, then carefully insert it into the manual eject hole, resulting in the completely unexpected expulsion of a disc moving at roughly 57, 322.54 RPM [.... RPM's?....R's-PM?...whatever. ] which would immediately (obviously) implant itself directly into the skull of the owner/technician and thereby resulting in yet another expansion of their legal department's attorney head-count, in order to deal with the inevitable lawsuit. Whew! Thank goodness for intuitive and proactive engineers....... I'm just saying: When I'm elected King of the Universe, things are going to be a bit different. :-)