Last night, following our annual trip to Cincinnati for Easter, we stopped by the construction site.  The unmistakable sign that construction is going to start very soon was the porta-potty that has been placed on the area soon to be our front lawn.  If there were a formula for efficiency of home building, I imagine that proximity to the facilities would be a major component, so this is good news I guess.  We're scheduled to start digging this Wednesday assuming the weather improves and the building permit comes through.  I'll have pictures up soon.

Beware the ides of March.

I haven't blogged an update about the TiVo saga in over a month.  Crap.

Right now, I am up and running wth the original hard drive (40 hours (really 15 or so if you don't want it to look like crap)).  I haven't seen any lockups since switching.  I haven't had time to install the busted HD into a box and run diagnostics on it to see if its time for an RMA.

I am seeing some of the problems that other users of the 7.x software are seeing, including VERY slow menu transitions and VERY long pauses when switching channels.  It makes you wonder just how well they screened their beta testers.  TiVoToGo has also been very flaky.  The desktop software gets very confused if a transfer gets interrupted.  I have had to manually delete temp files and kill processes on several occasions to get it's brain unscrambled.

I'm going tomorrow, but I won't be wearing a flower in my hair.  I've been to LA, but never to San Francisco.  It should be interesting.

Since I booked my flight so late, I was originally seated in a middle seat way back for both legs, including a 5+ hour hop from Detroit to SFO.  That's all changed now due to the wonder of 24hr advanced online checkin.  Exit row window here I come.  And since Northwest allows exit row passengers to board between first class and elite frequent fliers, I shouldn't have any trouble fighting for an overhead bin.  Sometimes life is good.

Hopefully, I'll be able to swing a similar upset on the way back.