How To: Build Your Own DVR/PVR System

Several years back, I began building a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) system with WiFi enabled receivers for each TV in the house.  The project belongs to my wife…and actually saves us several hundred dollars a year by ditching those satellite and cable packages.  It’s still a work in progress and …

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All I Want For Christmas…

Is exactly what I got.  All I wanted, over any gift or such, was to be able to spend time with my wife and kids.  Heather baked a chocolate-strawberry cake that I cut into the shape of a cross.  Lauren decorated it.  Heather also made a strawberry “Happy Birthday Jesus” …

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Prayers vs. The SSA

Many of you know that I’ve been trying to get back onto Social Security Disability since February 2013.  I’ve been denied twice, been in the court room twice…and still I wait for an answer.  Two days ago, I received letters back from Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander.   I …

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Varied Uses For An iPhone 6S Plus

An admission of old age…I lose my phone and sometimes I can’t hear it ring.  So…I set it up to flash (using the camera’s LED flash) and buzz when someone calls.  Quick note…that doesn’t mean I’m actually going to answer it.  We also have a mount for the phone that …

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