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Yeah, yeah, I'm getting there. It's that horrible time of year again when we change the stupid clocks. No one likes it, there's no goddamn farmers that rely on it, why the hell do we keep doing it? I woke up at "6:20" this morning which should have been 5:20. At least in today's age of electronics, everything update automatically for me. Except of course for the microwave, stove, and 30 watches in the house. The car probably isn't updated either. I will check that later.

Had a good day yesterday. Sort of. The morning was a little stressful. I have been wearing a pair of B's Mickey earrings because one of the holes in my ears was closing up and I wanted to see if I could re-open it. I woke up yesterday and one was missing. It fell out while sleeping but of course I freaked out because I lost one of her good earrings. These are ones we got at the park, are real, and were her birthday present. I was thinking all this when I went out to the store. Did my grocery shopping, got up to the line, realized I forgot my wallet. I had them hold the cart while I hauled ass back home. 7 minutes round trip. Got that done, then went to one location of another store as I needed some stuff not at the first store, only to find that location didn't have what I wanted and had to drive to the other location. Sigh. The morning shopping trip was way more stressful than it should have been.

Got back, B woke up, vacuumed, and then we did laundry. My friend came by around noon and dropped off a mini-computer for me to check out as a viable media server. I started playing with it, but B was hungry. We went to a local burger place (which was pretty good), but as we were leaving we discovered an old woman had slipped and fallen behind our car. We were then stuck there until the ambulance, fire department, and eleventy billion lookie loos dispersed. Finally got back home, napped, then I started playing with the device. In the end, it isn't going to work out for me. I would have to get too many extra components, the video card isn't supported by the OS I was hoping to use, and my remote isn't compatible. Darn. It was a nice try.

I made tikka masala chicken for dinner then after dinner, we decided screw it, let's by the Apple TV 4 and see how we like it. There's a Plex app for it as well as VLC now. I have been considering a Pi kit, but this would definitely be an easier route. We were just worried about the interface. Placed an online order and we headed to the mall. It only took them 20 minutes to process the order and let me know it was ready. Got that, a birthday present for a friend, some stuff from bath and body, and golden egg for me from Lush.

Returned and setup the new ATV. First off, no changes were needed to the remote or the power cable which was nice. Unplugged one hockey puck, plugged the other in. Grabbed the Plex app and BOOM everything we have been wanting to do. The interface to Plex is great, no more running iTunes, no more converting MKV or AVI files. The issue has been resolved.

All that took a while and didn't go to bed until 11:30. Not sure what we have if anything planned for today. We shall see.