Cindy and Greg

Well after months of playing little cartoon characters, I finally made Tennis Pro this evening.

If you ever feel the need to learn a little humility, go find a Wii and play a few rounds of tennis or boxing.

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Well last night I got to play Mr. Fix-it. Our master bath toilet decided that it wanted to run constantly. This brought back memories of the nightmare before Christmas, where the night before both families showed up the toilet on the main floor decided to leak and run all over the place. After hours of trying to fix it, I finally got it to work enough to get through the holiday.

Well after a quick trip to Lowes last night, I had the toilet in the master bath fixed in about 10 minutes after replacing the innards of the tank.

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So I haven’t posted a cool technology gadget in a while. This weekend as we prepare for our anniversary trip to Banff, AB I realized that we need some way to be able to get phone calls in an emergency. After talking to a few friends I decided to check out the T-Mobile HotSpot@Home offering. Essentially what it lets you do is use WiFi to connect your phone to their network. So if you are in a spotty coverage area or traveling internationally you can have your normal cell phone number follow you at no additional charge provided you have WiFi coverage. This is pretty amazing because after I called Verizon I was left scratching my head at the .79/minute charge for using my phone in Canada. Not to mention the fact that I would be paying be kb for data on the Blackberry. After all, isn’t Canada the 51st state? (just kidding my northern friends).

I have always been a fan of T-Mobile as a company, back to my days with 3gWiz.com. Currently there are 3 phones that work with  the T-Mobile offering, none of them terribly sexy or revolutionary in and of themselves. But I think this offering could have impacts on the rest of the cell phone industry.

Stay tuned for a full review…

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We continue to make progress on the family room. The TV was re-hung by Williamsburg Communication (we hung it too high) and the room has been painted. The new carpet is slated for October 16 and with that, we will just be waiting for our furniture from Crate and Barrel.

Weight Watchers continues to work, I am now down 18+ pounds and and Cindy is down 13 pounds.  I quickly came to realize last week that Weight Watchers and traveling don’t go well together. As I walked through my least favorite airport (ATL) around lunch time, the only thing I could find was Moes (gate C14), but I passed on that and got a water and hopped on the plane.

Anyway, we will post pictures of the new family room upon completion.

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