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cobbling together technology After work this morning I stopped by my sister's place to help her set up her new dvd player that she got as a reward from work. Now I knew before I got there that this would be a project if not an adventure since her television does not have the much lauded s-video connection that most dvd players like to use. Four hours later with a trip to my place to retrieve my old stereo receiver and speakers all that I had achieved was audio with no video. The sound from the dvd was great, but without the picture it wasn't what she wanted. By the time that I had left my mom was there and took over the project with some of my instructions to guide her. I was hoping that there was a cable that could connect a mere cable ready television to a rca jack on the dvd player. Later in the day I found out from my mom that a box to correct this problem does indeed exist and can be purchased for roughly thirty dollars. I keep wondering when they are going to make the s-video connection a standard on televisions. ... They say that stress affects a person's dreams and I believe it. Work or a twisted version of it infected one of my final dreams before I went to work. In the dream I was working alone which isn't that unusual, but what was odd was that there was a power outage. Everywhere in the building it was completely dark. Instead of emergency lighting there were hints of light here and there as I made my way across the warehouse. No, I do not work in a warehouse, but I did years ago so naturally my brain combined those images together. Eventually I found a telephone, but it didn't work. Then I found another one and it too didn't work. So there I was shuffling through the dark trying to find a way to communicate with the outside world. While I was trying to think of some other way to get out, the lights started to come back on and a variation of my high school shop class came into the building. I started to tell them what had happened to me, but no one seemed to care. They just went to work as though nothing was ever wrong. I doubt that my brain could have come up with a better metaphor for my current situation in life.
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