Depending on where you live, home security can be a serious concern. We live in a generally lovely, crime-free neighborhood, but still had a very expensive package stolen right off our porch. Unfortunately, these days, most of us can use a good security system.
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I’m not a big television fan. In fact, for almost two decades I watched so little TV that I couldn’t even identify the day/time of a single television show. There was a show called Early Edition that I liked back in the 90s, but that’s about it. I never once saw Friends, Survivor, The Simpsons, [...]
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Now that we are preparing to move into our own digs — finally — we’re reconsidering our television choices. After a year using Utopia — instead of a local TV satellite system — we’re ready to get back to satellite. All year the signal we’ve had was lousy, the picture quality spotty, the recording unpredictable. [...]
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Disclaimer: there is no such thing. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let me share my satellite/cable experience of the past few years. The major contenders in my area are DIRECT TV and Dish Network (both satellite providers), Utopia (fiber optic broadband), Qwest (DSL), and Comcast (cable). The choices can be overwhelming [...]
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Three moves are as good as a fire. And as we moved to the rental home to be closer to the build site, we probably did lighten our load of about a third of all our stuff. Two of those things were the small entertainment unit and the television from the master bedroom. Sam replaced [...]
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Focal point. That was the big debate. While I agree that it’s silly to position all the furniture in a room so that you have to crane your neck to see the television, the thought of building a family room all around a TV set makes me cringe. It’s about family, right? Not about staring [...]
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