dtel

Sorry we have to cancel, we had some bad weather. This was the first chance I had to say anything. We were looking forward to being there but their is no way now. Wife and I were going to come and not tell anyone where we were! Things have changed. We will be there next year for sure. See my post in "General Questions". Wish we could come and we hope everyone has a really great time. We couldn't go to the one in Indy, we were busy with work at the time.

Every one here is ok and so is our house. We just got electricity. It's going to be very busy for a while. Will check in every chance I get. I don't need to look at the post with pictures,we see it every day as we help clean my 73 year old aunt's house which had 7 feet of water and left 6 inches of mud. We are using my 2 inch gas powered water pump to pump fresh water from the bayou in to the house to wash out the mud after removing all of the furniture, none of which is salvagable to the yard. It's working very well so far. Only found one snake and a coon so far. Thats good, I just don't want to see any alligators. She lives on the north shore of Lake Pontchatrain in Slidell, LA, in Palm Lake subdivision. What can you expect? It's a total of about 2 feet above sea level and the house is only raised about 3 feet. My mother who is seventy years old lost her home of over thirty years. Her home was in St. Bernard Parish, part of the Murphy oil spill during Katrina. Her home will probably be condemned and bulldozed. My youngest sister lived at home with my mom. She is thirty five years old. They will both be living with us for years to come, as will my niece and her fiance'. They had an apartment in St. Bernard Parish and lost everything except the changing of clothes they left with and their dog. They lost both cars also. It's a good thing we added onto to our home. Originally, we had two bedrooms and one bath. Just completed addition about a month ago and increased to five bedrooms and two baths. Thought we would have two spare bedrooms for our daughters and their families to stay in when they come to visit. Worked out great everybody has there own bedroom and our "master suite" is out of the way of everyone. We increased square footage from approx. 1000 square feet to 2500 square feet. It is 32 feet above sea level,never floods even when we had 21 inches of rain in 24 hours about 3years ago. My wife, my oldest daughter and myself did all the work ourselves, on the original house and the addition. Everything from the slab to the roof, including electrical and plumbing. Not one subcontractor. The house was paid for cash as we went along and the only thing we owe on is the six acres it sits on. No credit cards either. Not even one. Good thing, as landscapers, my wife and I are out of work for months. Landscaping is last on the list when someone is building or better yet rebuilding. Had three landscaping projects going just before Katrina, and another three on the waiting list. All six projects are history for a while. Probably for a good long while. We do have trucks and big trailers so we should be busy for a while, if we ever finish with my aunt's house. Although in the past she has been very good to us and has no one else to help her. She never had any children and retired as vice president of one of the largest and oldest banks in Louisiana. She does have a Bose speaker system, which of course survived Katrina. We have considered allowing the Bose system to accidentally "hit the mud". Get this...she only listens to AM anyway! Seeing the destruction Katrina caused first hand has been difficult, but we have every one of our family members alive, we have a large enough house to accomodate all of us, and we have gained an even better sense of humor as a result. We told his aunt, "We brought the chainsaw (to cut our way down the driveway to the house) and five gallons of gas in case the chain saw wouldn't do the job(to finish the house off). But she wouldn't let us use the gas, turns out the Bose system and a few other things on the 2nd floor survived. Turned out we had to use a tractor with a front end loader to move the four foot of marsh grass and trees limbs to get a path to house, just wide enough for one vehicle. BUT EVERYTHING IS GOOD. could be floating

Very good movie Amy just seen it the other day. It felt strange watching it, 1957 to 1969 i lived about 3 blocks from that house,easy to remember the houses end on one side of the street because of the river. It looked the same as it did 40 years ago and i bet they did VERY little to the area to film, that is just what that whole area is like . Not that bad if you take away the drugs and their salesmen

It's not close enough to september yet? DON'T DO IT THE WEEKEND THE FORUM WILL BE CLOSED

I can't say anything about grammar or punctuation , i tend to spell things like they sound. Even when i spell it correct it looks wrong to me ,been out of school 31 years and don't write much except here. Wife looks at what i type sometimes and laughs she knows i don't care. If it is important i get her to do it .{married 27 years}

Yes it should be the 811 because it is not a dvr and i think that the 811 is the only other, i had checked out hdmi cables and they are about $100 for 10'. Tv has hdmi but i don't think dvi,guess i will just wait and see what they do and go from there. thanks

In about a week dish network is instaling a dish here and i have no idea what cables i will need. TV is hd ready and has hdmi input and component . What is the best way to hook it up,tv and cabinet both roll out away from the wall so i will need cables 10" because they are pulled out one at a time tv first then cabinet. I will be recieving hd and voom so what is the best type of cable.

WE have a 65" hd toshiba crt. 65H84 6 months old. under2k It is very bright, 5 big windows in the room no problem, you can vue at almost 180 degrees no different than any tube tv . I have seen some of the ones that if you are not sitting directly straight on it was not worth watching. Compare for yourself the are all not the same. If you can try to find a toshiba crt and see for yourself. When i started reading and comparing it came down to mits,hatichi?,toshiba in my price range. I talked to service people and read a lot of reviews these were the best for picture and reliability. At the time i was doing this some of the newer models/brands had not been out long enough for alot of reviews like samsung ,lg and a few more .The brand had been around but they had not been building large tv's for long.

At least they diden't claim they invented the internet like that goofball al gore.

Don't know what the music and drink will be but will do. Happy b day

Speedball i was talking about crt projection. They still should have some around very good picture also our room has 4 windows 36" wide and one window 72" wide and the tv is plenty bright enough,had to adjust the controls with the sound&vision dvd when we got it because before adjusting it hurt your eyes it was so bright. Toshiba model 65h84 65" 16:9 hd for under 2k, also people complain about the size/depth it is the same depth as the 32" it replaced 27" deep but 5' wide and 240 lbs. As far as detail we sit 10' to 11' away and it is a much better picture even with basic cable than the 10 month old jvc or rca 32" tube we have. http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/televisions/product.asp?model=65h84 Just trying to help i went through the same thing 6 months ago. Good luck you will not be sorry, get the biggest you can fit . IMHO.

Forgot something. This toshiba is 16:9 and one of those adjustments changes it to 4:3 normal tv ,and after you see the 16:9 for a short time the 4:3 looks very strange. Edit: their is still some CRT,s around if you want to go cheaper,still very good picture.

I'm not sure about all but the toshiba we have has a button on the remote that has 5 different settings to adjust the size of the picture to remove the bars from any format. Sometimes we just use it to remove the captions from channels like fox news. I don't know if this is standard or not, but was one of the things i liked about this tv.

Ok i can't say anything about our local team.{saints] But i do like football, last season we got a new tv 65" one week before superbowl and went on vacation for a week about 3 days before the game diden't even find who won till the next day. Now i am looking in to getting hd sat, this year should be different,i hope.

IM with FRZNINVT. I did insurance for a bunch of years seen them in all shapes and sizes and ages die. Many were in much better shape and ate much better than the average person. The first claim i had to work on was was a person my exact age , birthday , and size 6'3" about 260lbs , he died in his sleep ,they say his heart just stopped not a heart attack it just stopped, he was found to have no health problems.< it was very strange to see his age ,birthday and almost my exact shape and size as me > I think that when it's your time what kind of shape or diet you have makes no difference. I'm not saying you can't change the time by doing crazy things.

Ok i just spent over a hour searching past threads,so i did look. Looking to get sat tv ,looks like dish network because i want it for hd. Direct tv, you have to buy the hd reciever dish network gives you one. One of the many things i don't understand about sat tv is if a channel is not listed on the list of hd stations but that channel is broadcast in hd do you get it in hd. Like a local channel that has hd is it hd on sat, we live out of range of ota antenna. Also who pays to repair or replace sat receivers,can you get a service plan. The reason i ask the power goes out at least 3 or 4 times or much more a month here and when we had digital cable the receivers went out every month or two. It could have just been the receivers because no other equipment had a problem. htr receiver ,dvd ,cd,vcr,tv.

Almost forgot, now useing sc1 and ss1 and there is a big difference. For music it sounds better with just the 2 forte ll's, i miss the surround speakers but they don't even come close in the midrange or highs, sounds like they miss a big part of the music.

Glad to hear that,i plan to get 2 more pair for 6.1 can,t wait.

Glad someone here got them. Hope i diden't jack up the price by posting it here. Still a good price though.

Sold for 1052.50

I built one that looks like a large end table, it sits in the corner of the room<24'w 34'd>. It is 5cf ported about about 25" square and the trim 1" thick that goes around it also forms legs on the corners,kind of like the old dressers or chest. But it is about 5" high off of the floor and looks like it is setting on the legs but the the legs or about 1/4" off the floor, it is sitting on 4 casters which you can't see unless you get on the floor and look under it. It is very heavy so this helps to move it around. The strange thing is when you roll it around with it off or unpluged it makes a deep bass sound. The floor is textured concrete and the vibrations echo and come out of the port and has a strange sound. Will post pics of it and the room when more pics are taken, digital camera took a walk ?

Here is one my wife likes also. Steve Winwood / Back in the high life 1980 cd only has 8 songs but has a lite rock / jazz kind of sound, you may recall the song Back in the high life or higher love

MR photo ,Michael don,t jump ship now this place would not be the same without you.

dtel's wife says: This joke really isn't for the guys, but the girls will love it. Dtel said it may already be on the forum somewhere. SICK HUSBAND A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined with horrible stress. If you don't do the following, your husband will surely die." "Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant, and make sure he is in a good mood. For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him with chores, as he probably had a hard day. Don't discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse. And most importantly, make love with your husband several times a week and satisfy his every whim." If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely. On the way home, the husband asked his wife. "What did the doctor say?" "You're going to die," she replied. and one more: Husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop with their nine children. A blind man joins them after a few minutes. When the bus arrives, they find it overloaded and only the wife and the nine kids are able to fit onto the bus. So the husband and the blind man decide to walk. After a while, the husband gets irritated by the ticking of the stick of the blind man as he taps it on the sidewalk, and says to him, "Why don't you put a piece of rubber at the end of your stick? That ticking sound is driving me crazy." The blind man replies, "If you would've put a rubber at the end of YOUR stick, we'd be riding the bus ... so shut the hell up."

I dont think this guy knows what he has. Item #5794536137 3 oak oil academys and 8" sub and 2 stands,5 days left no bin bidding is at $99.00. He could just be playing stupid but he could get more if he sold them one at a time. I will keep up with this one but fear the price will get very high. I could use 1 academy for center but will not pay to much for one because i could fit another forte ll. It seems I could buy 2 forte ll's for the price of one academy.