competence eludes me

A couple of weeks ago I asked for help with my electronics. A couple of you suggested an A/B switch for RCA plugs. I had forgotten that my VCR had RCA jacks, so that was the suggestion I needed. I finally got around to hooking it up and I got nothing.

The VCR apparently doesn't put signal out through those jacks. It still works through the coaxial cable, but not the RCA.

Before I tried this, I had to unhook the coax and attach the RCA cords from the DVD player. Now that doesn't even work. I get no picture from the DVD player, even though I have it set up like I did last week.

I imagine there's something simple that I'm missing with regards to the DVD player, and something complex, like some settings on the VCR, but I really have no idea. And since I can no longer even connect the coax to the back of the TV, we are completely without moving pictures.

things done

I mowed the lawn. I feel a lot better. It was awful. I had to creep along and only do a half-swath, just to keep the mower from bogging down.

We went down to Cyn's place to get some work done. Got the door and wandows painted. And got a quote on couintertops from Home Depot.

After that I took the garbage out (probably tok me half an hour), and fucked up the video.