Just One Cup at a Time

Childhood loves

I know I'm dating myself so humor me and walk with me friends.  Once upon a time there was no such think as Tivo, DVR or VHS recordings {gasp}.  What to do when you want to record your absolute favorite show?

You pull out your cassette recorder with the microphone.  The very microphone that I would stand in our den when nobody was looking and I would belt at the top of my lungs such hits as St. Pepper Lonely Hearts club band....I'm old.  Thank you.

So, when your very favorite show was on way back when...what better to do than to set that cassette recorder and microphone hanging over the edge of a book just perfectly next to the TV speaker and you would record the show.

Then you take that cassette recorder to school the next day and during recess you sing at the top of your lungs I'm a little bit country....I'm a little bit rock 'n roll.....  And all was perfect in the world because surely this caused you have tons of friends I mean way more than you could ever invite to your birthday party.  TV shows recorded on a cassette recorder - serious friend magnet!

Then because you're so obsessed with the show - you just have to write the stars a letter:

And if you're a good mama like mine was....you don't really send the letter in you keep it in a box so that one day when your daughter is all grown up, you give her a box filled with all sorts of precious memories.  Happiness.

And you know, as I was looking at this I think I figured out when my obsession for fonts and sripts and type and all things written began....

I mean look at the curve in these letters?  It's brilliant isn't it?

And the same words repeated twice even match - so it stuck.  It was a real signature type.  I think I'm on to something here.

And this....this clever layout of the words.  I wasn't content with the words going up and down - oh no it needed to be diagonal.  This must be where my love for typeset and layout designs began.  Love.

CUP of DVR woes

So I cozy up on the sofa last night (my first night I've been able to do this in weeks) and was excited to catch up on some DVR recordings. I have Uverse at home - that's a story in itself converting everything over from SBC and Time Warner......so I remotely recorded (via the internet from my office) a couple of shows I really wanted to see (mind you the remote recording has worked just fine before). One of them was the WSOP Final Table that I've been waiting for weeks to see and avoiding any website about poker so I didn't find anything out. So last night I got comfy and searched and searched through my "recorded TV" and nada....I get so bummed when technology fails!! So if anyone has it recorded still, please keep it for me and I'll come over to visit you - I'll bring the starbucks!! :)

Cheers!!