Taking baby steps
I have adopted a technique of “take baby steps” around here. Too many new things to learn, and since we have little idea what may come from pushing any given button, we’re in educational overdrive. This afternoon, I learned how to play a DVD on one of two screens.
Laugh if you will, but when I inserted our DVD (purchased in the cheap bin at the big box store), I figured I could rely on the label. The opening credits (in the dash screen) seemed to fit, but when I turned on a TV, my program was completely different. Stop. Think about it. If the movie up front is still running, and you have a different movie running in the back section, there has to be logical reason. Yes, there was a second DVD player (up in a cubby hole), and it had a different disc (training video from the manufacturer). So far, so good. I moved my preferred disc from the front to the cubby and settled down to watch a familiar film. Groundhog Day. Fitting in so many ways. Turns out that a tiny remote marked as HDMI Matrix allowed my to put my show up in front, back in the rear or on both at the same time. Don’t ask me about the sequence of events that got me there.
This evening, another baby step. We had dragged the cable for “shore power” over to an available outside plug on the house. This time, I wanted to hear the familiar roar of the internal generator. It cranked, effortlessly. Nothing else. By careful comparison of diagrams and outside access panels, we found a convincing ON/OFF switch for the LP Gas supply. Yes, the “genny” works, now. That’s enough learning time, for one sunny day.
