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sailorhathorSinus headaaaaaache. Won't go away. Took medicine an hour ago. Go way pain.
I'm going to go eat something, see if that helps. Sometimes it does.
Nick @ Nite is showing a "Sanford and Son" marathon all week. ARGH. I guess it's tapes and Game Show Network all week. (Sorry Joe! I don't like this show much.) A guy sent me blank tapes to get the 7th season of Buffy, so I'll just watch that while I'm taping it. For some reason this one particular episode I'm on ("Same Time, Same Place") is all glichey in my main playing vcr, so I have to drag another one into the living room just to play that one episode for taping. The gliches are way too frequent and intrusive, and it only does it in this particular vcr.
Oh, that reminds me, recently one of my old tapes broke off the spindle, and I was so proud of myself--I fixed it myself! ^_^ Looking around online, most places charged from $25 to $80 to fix an old video tape. No thank you! All that happened was that the tape came off one of the spindles, because the tape is over 15 years old, so the adhesive probably gave.
So, I read a few things online about video tapes and they talked about being able to open up a tape by taking out the screws. I was like, "Video tapes have screws? Never noticed before!" I looked, and yeah, tapes have about five screws on the back side. I got a teeny little screwdriver, opened the tape up, and very carefully taped the video tape back on the spindle. You have to be really careful and make sure you put the tape back exactly as you found it, and that you don't touch the black part of the tape (the film part) if you can help it. I mostly touched the clear leader on the end of the tape. Put it back together, and played it--worked just fine! I was able to make a copy of everything on the tape just incase it comes off the spindle again. It's neat fixing things yourself; saves you so much money. ^_^
The inside of a video tape is really cool.
I'm going to go eat something, see if that helps. Sometimes it does.
Nick @ Nite is showing a "Sanford and Son" marathon all week. ARGH. I guess it's tapes and Game Show Network all week. (Sorry Joe! I don't like this show much.) A guy sent me blank tapes to get the 7th season of Buffy, so I'll just watch that while I'm taping it. For some reason this one particular episode I'm on ("Same Time, Same Place") is all glichey in my main playing vcr, so I have to drag another one into the living room just to play that one episode for taping. The gliches are way too frequent and intrusive, and it only does it in this particular vcr.
Oh, that reminds me, recently one of my old tapes broke off the spindle, and I was so proud of myself--I fixed it myself! ^_^ Looking around online, most places charged from $25 to $80 to fix an old video tape. No thank you! All that happened was that the tape came off one of the spindles, because the tape is over 15 years old, so the adhesive probably gave.
So, I read a few things online about video tapes and they talked about being able to open up a tape by taking out the screws. I was like, "Video tapes have screws? Never noticed before!" I looked, and yeah, tapes have about five screws on the back side. I got a teeny little screwdriver, opened the tape up, and very carefully taped the video tape back on the spindle. You have to be really careful and make sure you put the tape back exactly as you found it, and that you don't touch the black part of the tape (the film part) if you can help it. I mostly touched the clear leader on the end of the tape. Put it back together, and played it--worked just fine! I was able to make a copy of everything on the tape just incase it comes off the spindle again. It's neat fixing things yourself; saves you so much money. ^_^
The inside of a video tape is really cool.
