I have an elderly neighbor who used to always go to church every Sunday. She began having a lot of health problems. One of her problems was her loss of hearing. This broke her heart. She is now almost completely deaf. She has tried many hearing aids and other hearing tools, with no success in helping her to hear. When she would go to church, she could not hear other people talk, or the sermon being preached. Finally, a friend told her that they have closed captioning on her television. She now gets to listen to more than one sermon on Sundays due to watching the closed captioning she uses on her television, which makes her much happier.

Our household has many different gaming consoles and systems that hook up to our televisions. The latest being the Playstation 3 system by Sony. It seems like we are always shopping for new games for different systems. You can often find used games reasonably priced in stores and on the internet. Sometimes, the games can be very expensive. If they are played enough, they are well worth the money. It is much cheaper staying at home playing these games rather than constantly spending more money going out and doing other things.

My grandparents had never had the internet before. My Grandfather just retired and they were on a very limited income. Since my Grandmother had never worked, she had no retirement to draw. They still had 3 years before receiving Social Security and were trying to make ends meet on my Grandfathers retirement alone. They couldn’t travel or make many long distance phone calls, due to the high costs. Due to missing all their children and grandchildren, the decided to get the internet since everyone else in the family already had it, and they could communicate daily with everyone that way. I told my Grandfather everything to get and he got it and had me hook it up for him. The only thing he didn’t get was the fiber optic cables. He was not aware that he would need these to hook up the internet. It ended up being no problem, as he and I made a trip to the local computer store and picked some up. They now have faster internet than I’ve ever used and are communicating with everyone and are so much happier. I’ll probably have to start going over there to use their internet for super fast downloads.

A friend of mine recently gave me a huge amount of CAT6 cable that was left over on a job that his company did. His company does alot of networking jobs and they always endup just leaving lots of cable and other random supplies at the jobs that are left over. My friend usually tries to gather up all of the left over items that he can and he either sells them or gives them to me.

I went to the store to buy myself a new high definition television. When I got home and opened everything up that was included in the box, the HDMI cables were not included. I was not aware of this when I bought the television, so I had to make an extra trip back to the store to buy some. The price for the HDMI cables were much more expensive than I thought they would be. For the high price of the television, I think they should include them with it.

Okay, I give in, I’m going to invest in a laptop next week. Not a new one but it beats a zero and the one I’m working on. Quite recently the old computer has been doing strange things to me like shutting down, freezing up, the works. Then when it started changing colors on the screen bleeding one minute, and then really dark the next I decided that enough was enough. When I first bought the PC I was told that it was five years old. It was in good condition though and worked really well for an older model. Oh well, on to the next best thing…