Remte control

I got a Wii for Christmas and it is still not hooked up!  The living room TV only has one auxiliary port in the front & the husband did not want to unhook the DVD player.  He almost never watches any DVDs, so I convinced him to hook up the Wii.  Now, the remote that changes the input from TV to video game is lost.  The menu button *should* do that function, but it does not.  I found a replacement remote on eBay, though I might hook up the Wii in the bedroom.

Roller Skating

As a child I had the metal skates that clamped on to your shoes with a skate key.  We had a tiled basement floor and spent many hours skating there, or outside on the sidewalks in our neighborhood.  I was in my teens the first time I went to a roller rink with my cosmetology classmates. I fell a few times, but eventually got the hang of it. I think that rink was in Oella, Md and no longer around. Many roller skating rinks have closed.  In my area, we had 2 roller rinks at one time.  One closed years ago and is now a catering hall (Michael's).  The other one is a classic rink with wood floors.  My younger brothers went there to skate, and I used to go a couple of times a year when my kids were in school and in scouts.  I tried roller blades outdoors on the hiking trail, but did not have a very good pair of outdoor skates and falling outdoors seemed much worse than falling indoors at the rink.  Today, my grandson had his birthday party at the roller rink.  I donned my rented skates and gave it a whirl.  Though it has probably been 15 years since I roller skated, I did just fine.  This grandma can still skate!

Formatting a hard drive

The last new hard drive I bought was a Seagate 80 GB for my P3 in 2003 or 2004, and it came with installation software. Recently, I purchased a used/refurbished Maxtor 250 GB IDE/PATA drive to replace the 80 GB drive in my IDE/PATA to USB external enclosure. The disk was not formatted, and I had no idea how to format it without installation software. I could see it in the device manager, but not in "my computer". After some searching (and a call to my brother in WV) I found the download for the Seagate tools (Maxtor is now Seagate) and the Computer Management function in Windows 7 (Control Panel/System and Security/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management). I used the Computer Management function, and I now have a 250 GB external storage drive for back-ups.