If you normally read in a feed reader, you won’t have noticed, but I just changed the Header to my page. I was getting tired of the blue header and the dark blue (paint) background.

So, I changed the background to some of my handspun yarn, and am trying to decide which of two headers to use.

The mostly monochromatic background, or …

The one with more color in the background.

The background of the page itself is now light yarn, instead of the colored stuff. Definitely an improvement, I think, over the dark blue paint background that came with the theme, but I’m having a hard time deciding which combination I like best.

Which  basically gives me four options:

All white.

White header, colored background.

Colored header, white background.

Colored header and background.

(You can click all four of those to see bigger options if you like!)

What do you think? (And, I’ve been playing back and forth a bit, so heaven only knows which of these four you’ll see when you click, though I’ve definitely narrowed it down to these four options.)

Oh, and on my photo transfer from the old Typepad blog to photos-on-Flickr? I’m until to June 2007. Seven months to go!

Otherwise, today?

I went through hundreds of video tapes downstairs in the family room. We’ve had a VCR since Christmas 1981, and our handmade video collection goes back exactly that far. I don’t mean home-movies, I mean home-recorded versions of movies. Lots and lots and lots of movies, usually three to a tape. They’re all stored on the bookcase on the right side of our fireplace in the family room. (The bookcase on the left side is filled with purchased movies on both VHS and DVD.) Well, this morning, I went through them all and pulled out the 25 or so tapes that had movies that (1) we hadn’t doubled-up on by purchasing a copy and (2) was still interesting enough to warrant shelf space.

Which means I’ve got two big boxes down there right now filled with VCR tapes with lots and lots of movies. And that’s not even counting weeding out the purchased ones on the other side of the room!

On the plus side, the shelves all look much neater now, and the tv-show DVDs (which, frankly, we watch more often these days), all have their own shelves now, instead of being stacked in front and on top of those rows of formerly-blank VHS tapes.

And, before you ask, no, I don’t rent movies. It’s been at least 8-10 years since I have bothered to rent one, it’s just easier to own a copy. If you can buy one for $10 or less, why not just buy it and HAVE it, rather than paying a couple bucks every time you want to watch it? And, if you can record it yourself when it’s broadcast, why not? There’s a reason we still have VCRs attached to each of the TVs in this house. (And, no, we don’t have a Tivo/DVR box in the house at all. I’d love to have one, but refuse to pay extra to have them. Although, since I’m probably going to be forced to get a cable box for my room one of these days … for something like an extra $7 a month … that may change someday, too. But right now? It’s not exactly a necessity, you know?)

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