Stacy Horn

I changed the output resolution setting in my Time Warner DVR box to 720p and my picture went haywire and I couldn’t read the menus to put it back. Someone from Time Warner sent me the instructions (click over 4, etc.) so I should have been able to put it back without seeing the menus but it didn’t work.

Replacing that DVR box with a new one work didn’t either, but maybe the output resolution was set to 720p, which is not compatible with my tv. A technician is coming on Monday, but he’d still need to hook that box up to another tv or device to see the settings.

I can’t believe this isn’t fixable. I called the manufacturer of my tv and he said that setting has to be changed from another device, and from everything I’ve read I can’t reset this tv back to factory settings. It’s old, it’s a Panasonic CT-30WX15.

Cross your fingers for me please.

Update: I just realized, nothing is changed on my tv, my tv can’t be broken. If my tv can’t do 720p the DVR couldn’t have set it to that somehow. So the only problem is that the DVR box has settings that are not compatible with my tv. It’s the DVR that has to be fixed, not my tv. I may not have to buy a new tv!!

A quick shot of some of the members of the Choral Society of Grace Church in the gym last night, waiting to go on.

I passed by a shoot for the movie Annie yesterday (which apparently they are doing again). It was a very big budget shoot, let me tell you. Anyway, I noticed something funny.

They were shooting a scene showing paparazzi surrounding a car with Annie inside and …

… a few feet a away were real paparazzi surrounding the shoot of paparazzi surrounding the car.

Holiday cleaning was relatively easy this year. The complete apartment repainting I did in the spring caused such a thorough cleaning it’s mostly lasted to this day.

Bleeck: What is this? Is it edible?

Bleeck: I kid. Everything is edible.

Holiday cheer by my desk. I only put up the absolute minimum of decorations this year. Perhaps I should put up little more though. Maybe a wreath.

This chair was out on the street not far from where I live. It looks like something I’ve seen on Antiques Roadshow, it’s a bit Eames-ish. I like it, but I didn’t take it home.

Those are the Jane Street Christmas trees in the background! It’s a Vermont guy named Billy Romp and his family and friends. He’s been setting up there for 25 years now and he wrote a book about it called Christmas on Jane Street.

I forget how it came up, but at Thanksgiving dinner someone mentioned how an ER doctor said they were seeing more rat bites because a new poison is being used that is driving them crazy. And causing them more pain, I’m guessing.

Yesterday, I passed by a dying rat. It wasn’t moving much, and it was very clearly suffering. I almost burst into tears. A different roll of the dice and this could have been someone’s pet. It’s just this small creature, and it was in pain.