Boat Registration

I got a Tivo HD about a year ago and paid to transfer the lifetime subscription from my Series I to the new box. As part of that deal they gave us a year of service on the old box which expired a couple weeks ago so no DVR in Millville. Horrors!

I had a Windows Media Center box in moth balls and it does not require a paid subscription for the guide. We unboxed the computer and made the connections but I have some work to do to get it connected to the internet and figure out why there's no video signal on the s-video output.

I bought a Linksys WET54-G Ethernet bridge on eBay ($70). This box and others like it are referred to as wireless game adapters because you can plug it into a game console's (i.e Play Station) RJ45 connector and it will connect the console to your WiFi network. No need to run cables, such magic. It can work with plain old computers too so the Media Center will connect to the house's network without running a cable.

Went to the MVC this morning to register the boat. It was originally purchased in DE and it was docked there for a season. There is no sales tax due on a DE purchase as long as the boat is kept in DE but we had long feared that transferring it to NJ would incur a demand for sales tax. Turned out that there was a $72 charge for registration but there was no talk of sales tax. They didn't even want to know the purchase price. Will we avoid NJ sales tax? All signs point to yes.