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Oh man. I've been going between frantically doing the work that can't be easily done with the furbaby around, and completely resting.
She's coming home on Tuesday and hopefully full of cuddles. I hope I don't get the cold shoulder for putting her in the cattery.
She'll be happy to see you. Just give lots of cuddles. ( And she's lucky to have such a caring furmom/friend as you π₯° )
Ahhhhhh, it's VHS Cinderella!
All I need now is one of those boxy TVs with the bulgey front and a fireplace (and also to sit half a cm away from the screen) and I'll be a certified 90s kid!
Hahaha. Those boxy tvs are called CRT (cathode ray tubes) televisions.
Ah yep that's the term. I'm not quite young enough to not remember them at all, we didn't have enough money for a flat screen so I think we kept ours until 2014 or 15. Those guys were strong as, I knocked it off the stand once running inside and it still worked perfectly afterwards
I mentioned the other day that I knew one of the boys that was murdered in Sydney. It was Luke Davies.
I had only known him for a couple of years, since his cabin crew training here in Melbourne, so I am not close enough to his friends or family to really be connected to their community in mourning.
But in my own way I just want the universe to know that each and every word about how he was a beautiful soul are true.
This is a fate that I am still failing to comprehend. My heart aches for his family and close friends. I will dearly miss him.
Just one more big bear hug would have been nice, hey fella?
I'm so sorry. π
Condolences mate.
Omg we have a VHS player! I actually have a bag of VHS tapes I got from an op shop last year. I've never played a VHS before and I'm kinda excited ngl
I don't even know what I bought honestly. There's a handwritten one about wildflowers, and some Disney movie, but I don't know about the rest. I just saw 10c each and was like "ooh! Old people media! I will buy!" Love ya, Vinnie's
Ha. I have a VCR. I don't think it has been plugged into power at any point in the kids' lives. It's just been there at the bottom of the entertainment cabinet, dark and mysterious and ignored.
The only tapes I still have are Star Wars remastered (Han still shoots first) and 1997 editions. Widescreen versions.
I should put them on one day. In this day and age of streaming and Bly Rays, VHS will be an experience.
If they taped shows or movies off the telly there will be old ads
( first show I saw on tape was Blake 7 , I borrowed a player from the library at school, it was 1978. )
You might also need to use a tape head cleaner first .
Clean the heads, but please donβt use a head clean tape ( in the bizzare offchance you find one) those things were sandpaper, you want a light solvent.
I thought taping over movies was the sort of things parents yelled at you for
So far the most annoying thing people have done is not rewinding their tapes
I don't know what a tape head cleaner is, or for that matter what a tape head is, but I'm just going to put the tape in the box and hope for the best
Copying movies from the telly. You could buy blank tapes and record from a camcorder or copy from a telly, either by cable or just pointing the camera at the screen.
Hey. Those "old people" tapes may contain some risque stuff. Be careful.
Ha, I've read enough horror stories on Reddit to know to watch out, or rather not watch out!
With the tracking transition π€£
Think I did at least one thing right in a former lifeβ¦
So I just bought a unit...
Congratulations πΎ
Yay! Thatβs great! Must be such a relief
Yep, third time lucky!
Just the one?
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Ahhhhhhh yesssss!!!!! That's amazing!!!! Oooo I'm so happy for you!!
Congrats! π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘π‘
Yay! β¨
Whoa. Congratulations ππ₯πΎ
