Days off
Another Tuesday, another day off. I’m currently sitting over at Stacy’s Mom’s house with Emmie because she’s sick and couldn’t go to daycare today.
Last night at work was hellish. It was busy beyond belief until about 9 pm, but even though it tapered off then I still didn’t get out of work till almost 10:30 because of how much stuff needed to be downstocked and cleaned up. The department was a wreck until Dan and I got done with it.
I finally picked up a new DVD burner for the tower last night, because the one I had was having ‘issues’ insofar as it, for some strange reason, stopped reading CDs altogether. The drive read DVDs fine, but no CD I put in the stupid thing would read. I picked up a Samsung SATA burner last night and it works like a dream. Reads everything fine, and no issues with it being recognized.
I’m thinking it’s time to finally wipe out the OS on the laptop and either reload Vista clean (I had installed it originally over the top of a very heavily skinned and tweaked XP install, and some of the tweaks/programs wouldn’t uninstall once I got Vista on the unit), or run a dual-boot config with either OSX86 or some flavor of Linux. Linux would run great on this machine, being only 2(ish) years old.
Anyway, I’ll post another blog later on, might include some random pictures of something if I can find something that’s camera-worthy.
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Back again…
Well, here I am, back at this again. I’ve recently purchased a few items, some of which I’ve posted about here, and now I have a new one to talk about.
I just picked up (for myself, and Stacy got one too) the Samsung SCH-I760 smartphone. This phone is pure awesome. Sliding front with the 12-key numberpad, a directional navigation controller, touchscreen, and it slides sideways to expose a full QWERTY keyboard. Heaven for text messages or Twitter updates ^_^
I’m not entirely sure I’m gonna keep the data plan that I had to sign up for for 3 months to get the insane deal the dude at the Verizon store gave us, but at the rate I’m going, I’m not gonna be able to give it up. I’d have no problem with it, except that it’s 40 bucks extra a month, per line. Which sucks. But it might be worth it, I’ll have to see.
Anyway, I’ve really got nothing else to say here for this post, so I’ll end it with this: Smokey Bones’ ribs are still great!
…and it’s glorious sound.
Remember that long ranty neat-o post from yesterday? The one where I mentioned the receiver I was planning on getting?
It’s now sitting under my Xbox 360 and next to my new TV. And it is indeed glorious. The sound quality is better than the original sound-hub I had hooked up to these speakers. Only downside is my subwoofer uses standard speaker wire instead of RCA cabling, which the new receiver uses. But this shall be rectified eventually. For now I’ll just have a 5.0 system instead of a 5.1 system.
Might post a bigger blogrant later, as I’m currently too busy playing with the new equipment to do this ^_^
I bask in its wonderful light…
The title of this post cannot be more true. I am now the proud owner of a 26 inch LG LCD television, and it is glorious. I have it connected to both my PC and my Xbox 360 (since we got some in today and I managed to get my defective one replaced with a newer model with HDMI), and once I get my tax return I’ll be able to get the receiver I’m planning on purchasing, so that I can have HDMI audio AND video coming from the xbox. The PC will probably stay connected with standard mini-stereo to RCA conversion, although the board DOES support optical audio out, so I may just end up buying a cable for that too, when I get the receiver.
The TV itself is just sweet. It’s not too big so it doesn’t seem like it fills the room up (because my current bedroom is quite tiny, me not living on my own and all), and it’s not too small (I’m upgrading from a 19 inch Gateway LCD monitor, which I’m keeping hooked up to the tower as a dual-display unit). It’s quite possibly perfect. 720p HD capable too, so if I ever decide to invest in a Blu-Ray player (because F*CK HD-DVD!) I’ll already be ready. But that will probably have to wait till next year.
The only thing stopping me from buying the receiver right now (other than the fact that the store is closed because it’s 2 AM), is that I haven’t gotten my federal tax return back yet. It should be deposited either Friday or Monday, and I’m hoping for Friday (because that means I can just pick the unit up after work and not have to wait like the impatient schmuck I am ^_^).
This also means that once this massive check hits my bank account that I can finally pay off that freaking credit card that’s been haunting me for almost 2 years now. I ALMOST had it paid off once, and then bills and stuff started piling up where I was living and I ended up not being able to pay any more towards it, so it got back up to where it was.
But now, I will be free!
Also, this means that in exactly 2 weeks (from today, Friday, the 1st), I will be 23 years of age. Celebrate, people!
