cake

there is nothing in this world that makes me more insane than a computer or technology problem. i have zero patience for it and zero patience with myself or anyone else who's trying to solve it. i know that doesn't make sense - if it's being solved, i should be happy. but that's just not the way i function. or malfunction, as the case were.

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deep breath (seriously)
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deep breath

an hour ago i was relishing in the sense of community i felt in my neighborhood after a couple of neighbors, that i only loosely know, agreed to move the very, very heavy furniture that was left in my rearranging project. and now, i'm thinking that maybe i should have left everything where it was. after all, it all worked fine there.

now that my tv and stereo are upstairs and the extra (is that a problem?) cables are laying in a tangled web on the floor, i can't get the damn thing to work properly. i hooked up all the cords fairly quickly assuming everything should be much simpler now without the game systems and the cable box. right?

wrong.

the first dvd i pop in plays with sound and video, but only through the center speaker. hmm, i think to myself this is an exercise video, it may not be in stereo, or something like that. so i take it out and try an audio cd. again, only center speaker, despite mashing all the buttons and settings on the face of the receiver.

at this point, i put in a dvd that i am certain is in stereo. and now, i have sound and no video. umm. oh, i should mention that i switched the input on the back of the receiver before this. so, without video, i thought maybe i should go back to the original input. then i had video and no sound. not single speaker sound, mind you, but no sound at all.

and so on. i have now tried every possible configuration of red, white and yellow cables in every in and out connection on the receiver and i still can't get it all to work quite right. i have never, ever, never had this much trouble hooking up one single, solitary component to a not-very-fancy receiver and a tv. i mean, it should be cake.

which sounds like a really excellent idea. cake might make this all a little easier to cope with.

i take solace in the fact that it looks damn good. and i learned on discovery that that's the most important thing. (see: curtains)

now for that cake...

d: stereo installation fairy please come visit while i sleep.
b: my vision is just as i imagined it and, in fact, does look damn good.
g: i don't really like watching movies on dvd very much anyway.