Work Day

We did our laundry this morning. The laundry room is only a few steps from our site, so we just walked over with our laundry baskets--very convenient.

On our walk this morning we noticed a fellow camper had put some Rubbermaid tubs out to sell. We bought a couple, and then of course we had to reorganize our big storage tray and the truck box to accommodate our new finds. In the process we found some things we could do without, which is always good.

Ken put out the rope lights and our two LED light pathway trees. I pulled the Christmas decorations out of the closet but we haven't put them out yet.

Tonight we spent some time doing some trip planning for next summer. Of course we didn't make much progress, so we'll go back to it tomorrow.


We stopped the Solstar truck and complained to Joe, our installer, that we weren't getting the 3 MB service we are paying for. Evidently he did something, because our speed tests have improved greatly.

Last night we researched the TIVO S03 error some more. We did the kickstart 57 routine several times, but the connection never successfully loaded. We turned the TIVO off and back on--still no success. Finally I deleted the thumb ratings (even though we don't have many), and then I deleted the program information, to-do list, and season passes.

That process was underway when we went to bed. This morning, the connection process finally succeeded--yay! It took several hours to load. At the end, the guide showed program information, but the TIVO was still giving the message that it had no program data. After a few hours, it decided that it did have the info. Some of the season passes were still listed, but they showed "no upcoming episodes." I ended up deleting a recreating the season passes, which finally worked.

However, I had to create several wishlist searches, because the TIVO is having problems with not recognizing that related programs are part of the same series. For example, each Frontline episode seems to have a separate entry, so to get the TIVO to record all Frontline episodes, I used "Frontline" as a title keyword in a wishlist. Definitely the long way around, but I guess it will work.

One of these days, I'm afraid the TIVO will finally die, which will be a real shame, since we have lifetime service. We'll still have options to try replacing the hard drive or sending it off to Weak Knees for repair.