8’s, dropped off, Tivo trouble

This morning on the way to dropping off Ali at the airport I noticed that the odometer was approaching one of those magical moments when all the numbers are the same.  So once the screen read all 8’s I was ready with the camera phone.  I know this is extremely interesting and compelling, please hold down your applause.

So like I said, Ali is on her way to PA, returning on Sunday.  Nicki and I will hold down the fort just fine I’m sure.

Well my predicted success with the neighbor’s Tivo was premature.  The drive I copied an image to did not boot the Tivo.  I threw the drive from my Tivo into his just to verify it was a drive problem.  It booted just fine from my hard drive.  I have some more research to do.  The drive in my Tivo is larger than his drive.  Evidently there are additional complications when trying to downsize your Tivo image.

I have neglected to mention that the latest Mars lander, Phoenix successfully landed on Mars at the end of May.  I check out the NASA website almost daily to see what is going on with the lander.  It’s pretty amazing stuff to me for NASA to be controlling a device 43 million miles away.  I have a Vista desktop widget at home that shows the current Mars weather as measured by the lander.  Currently the high temperatures during the day are a balmy -25 F, the lows are -112 F.  I’ll be sure to pack the long johns if I get to visit the red planet.