Helping Speeder with repairs

Posted Nov 21, 2011. Filed under technology, life. Leave a comment?

Last night I’ve been helping my good friend Speeder with mechanical repairs of a bunch of electrical appliances we got from charity. There was a pretty stereo receiver coming directly from the US (Denon) that needed a good repair, and WOW if it works now! It’s a charm. We also repaired a pretty DVD player with a USB plug, and a couple of old laptops. 256MB of RAM—not a lot, but not bad anyway.

This is the stereo receiver model we worked on—isn’t it a charm?

I told Titania and we’re thinking about getting it home. We’re probably going to purchase brand new items directly from Denon too. I think we fell in love with the company’s philosophy: attention to detail and innovation. Plus, a fabulous client support. Much better than our local Expert store. They put a passion in their product that you can feel on your skin, when you touch a stereo or a DVD player. They truly love their job.

So, Titania likes the AVR-5308CI model. I’m in love with it. I showed it to my kids and they said it’s gonna be fun to use. Everybody’s saying ‘yes’ so I’ll be saving up to purchase one—for Christmas, I hope.

Tonight I’m going to help Speeder again. With repairs. Perhaps we find some other gem to fix, don’t you think? ;)

Nursery school for Shakila

Posted Nov 18, 2011. Filed under technology, Titania, kids. Leave a comment?

I told my wife that Shakila shouldn’t be attending nursery school here in Robocity, but she heard no reasons. “She’s like the other kids here,” she remarked, “no need to have her in a human nursery just because someone wants us to!“.

Oh, I wish she would see my point… I only hope the adoption agency we had our daughter from won’t be putting us under more stress for this thing, too. They were nice to us upon adoption practices opening, nice and available, but of course they’ve never trusted us one hundrend percent: we were subject to endless tests and check-ups in order to be listed as ideal potential adopting parents. Because we’re robots and kids (like our daughter) were humans.

I’m sure that Shakila won’t have issues in relating to robot kids, especially since her parents and siblings are all robots. And regarding Titania, all I can do now is (try to) persuade her to ask the agency what they think about it; to avoid trouble.

Well— time to cook dinner. My turn tonight.
I’ll be around.