Sony Can Thank Me

Sony released new mapping software for my GPS unit so I downloaded it and installed it but darned if it wasn't the same version as the old one. So I uninstalled and re-installed and downloaded and re-downloaded. Same thing. I then compared the downloaded file with the old version and they were identical. Clearly the download link on the Sony site pointed to the wrong (old) file version. Now to try and convince someone of that... After a few emails, chats and a telephone call, I finally got a Sony tech support person to admit that he too was seeing what I was and he promised to escalate it to the proper people for correction. So anyone having the same problem as me can go ahead and email me their thanks. Which is probably exactly zero people.

And speaking of Sony, we stopped at the Sony outlet on the way home from the beach yesterday to get a new (refurbished) Sony DVD player. Elliott moved his xBox up to his room which took away the DVD player from the family room (we used the xBox as the DVD player). So I got a great 'new' DVD player for the living room and synched it up to the Sony TV there. Today I will move the old JVC DVD player to the family room and synch it with that JVC TV.

I should get the replacement router today from eBay. We have been limping along without wifi in the house but I finally cracked my problem of not getting online wired - it is complicated but I had allowed wireless access to the laptops but not wired access. Corrected that and all is good. I even ran an ethernet wire to Elliott's room so his xBox is wired into the Internet now (instead of via wifi). He is loving it.

Lucie re-did his room which really opened things up in there. He is happy with that.

Yesterday we went to the beach with a lot of church people. Amazing to see the dolphins swimming just off shore! So big and close. It was beautiful most of the day but then got cloudy and chilly towards the late afternoon. One boy was body surfing and managed to smack his face into the hard sand and broke his nose. That earned him a trip to the ER via ambulance to be sure his neck was OK. It was. The good news for me was that it wasn't Elliott this time...

VBS ended very successfully. There was a fundraising goal which was tied into "buying" strips of duct tape to tape Lucie to the wall and see if she would be suspended. But not enough was raised (almost $3000 was though!) so it didn't hold her but the kids loved watching them pull the chair out from under her feet! No injuries to report there.

This week I MIGHT hear a job update. There were some vacations last week but everyone is back and things should get moving again. I hope...