Well we have some bad news and some good news Mr. holton. First the good. We opened up your computer and we found the problem and removed it and got it working it again. The bad news was it was your kick butt video card that was the only thing allowing you to play your video games.
Yep that's right i had to take out my free super pooper video card. The one Josh Hayes gave me and allowed me to play Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer Generals, and Jedi Knight Academy. Now these games are over, as is my computer's use. I seriously don't know what to do with my computer. Oh well maybe i can donate it to charity.
OK we have a huge problem. I turn my computer on to play video games while wifey watches the rediculous show the Bachelor. I turn the computer on then remember I need to check the check book. I get done with the check book and turn my attention to the important thing, the computer. The screen had shutdown, gone into hybernation. I try moving the mouse, nothing. I hit the keyboard, nothing. I hit restart, nothing. Pull the plug, nothing. We have a problem I turn the computer on and its black. Everything is plugged in. Everything is on but nothing is coming up on the screen. I don't even have a key cursor like in Jurassic Park.
I may have to step up my push for a new computer. I doubt that I'll get one sense my wife knows the only reason i use teh computer is for video games... so i guess I'll just have to resort back to my lame cube. I wrote a blog last night but it didn't stick, Josiah must be laying down on the job.
Wifey and I are heading to atlanta for the weekend to see the Crabbs. Should be a blast, crabby and I may swap systems, PS2 for lame cube. We'll see if he's up for it still. As for me its time to sleep.
Its been a few days sense I blogged, I've been kind of busy. Not with important things but life has a way of slipping by at incredible speed that leaves you wondering where you are and how'd you get there.
We ate tonight at Sushi Nabe with some of Wifey's co-workers. It was good food and good to hang out with some people we didn't know well. Sushi Nabe i've determined is better than Seiksui. The sushi is better, maybe a little cheaper too. Also the tempura was far superior. Which is all good news because soon Sushi Nabe will move down to Coolidge Park into the old Mystic Java building. Its a perfect spot and hopefully this move will work out, no place has lasted long in that location but no place there before was worth a nickel. Wifey and I have been really into the Alias movies and show. We watch the show every Sunday night and didn't start becoming "fans" till this season. So we've rented the first season and have watched most of it already. We must say its quite the cool show. We realize its not the most intelligent over the top make you think show, but its kind of like watching a james bond episode every week only without the innane sexual ineundous.... er that is off color sexual humor that gets old after five minutes. We're going down to atlanta this weekend to visit our Atlanta friends the Crabbs we both are looking forward to it. Specially since we just want to get out of dodge for the weekend. Well its gettin late and the oil is starting to run out on my lantern. Good night there campers and don't let the rattle snakes keep you up all night.
Last night we had date night and wifey informed me we were going ball room dancing.... I winced in pain and realized the only way to make ball room dancing fun was for me to do the robot the entire time thus enraging both my wife and the instructor and being ostracized from both of them and in the proverbial dog house, my second home. Luckily for me we didn't go ball room dancing. We went first to South Side Grill for dinner. I've now notched yet another snobby pricey restaurant to my belt. So far Northshore, Southside, Luciano (weep, sob), St. Johns, and Canyon Grill. My favorite remains Canyon Grill. Although South Side gave the Canyon a run for its money. We had a glass of wine that was awesome, a house salad with field greens, bacon, and blue cheese with a balsmic dressing. We couldn't decide what to order, that is wifey couldn't. We always decide two things that we like and then I get one and she gets the other. She decided on the Filet since the sides looked better and I decided on the Lamb because I love eating lamb. The lamb also had a currey sauce, wife doesn't like curry, I do. It was great and very good too. The lamb was so rare I could here a little "bah bah" eminating from the plate and I may be mistaken but I could have sworn i heard little Bo Peep crying in the Kitchen, serves her right, irresponsible little wench.
Then we went to the Symphony which was very nice. We sat in maybe the fifth row which was cool. The main piece was Dvorak # 7 which was awesome. Unfortunately they had some opera like singer before that. She sang some sort of Mexican type opera and murdered the spanish language. I wish I spoke spanish so I could know how badly she wasn't saying the words. At one point I almost started laughing because she sang "LA NINOS" which I just thought, "Thats Spanish for 'the ninos.'" That and the lady looked strait out of an 80s movie. Blue sequened dress, pony tail pulled to the side, and other fashion fopaws that my wife pointed out. She looked like she was the actress from Crocidile Dundee... it was sad. Anyway it was a lot of fun despite my cynicism. Today we're not sure what to do now our house hunt is pretty much turned off for the season. Wish we had a yard to work on or something... wait not yet.
For those that are interested in our house hunt or those who are sickly interested in our personal life... an update on the house search. We have thrown in the towel on our dream home. Well not necessarily. We found a home on Signal Mtn that was in our price range and had everything we wanted and then some. It had a few major problems but nothing the Holtonians couldn't handle. We were bideing our time trying to get my folks down here so they could see it, and also devise a strategy to buy the thing with our realtor. It was looking up since the records were showing that the seller had over inflated the value of the home and that he was trying to sell the home for more than it was worth. Homes in the area were running around 50 to 60 bucks per square foot this house was more than that and was in far worse shape than any home on the block. So things were looking like they'd go our way well then this morning and I was going to talk to my folks to lure them down here this weekend, well so much for that.
I left work a little early to go talk to our agent and the house had already had an offer close to the asking price. This pretty much shuts the window on the house for us. We can't afford a bidding war and we don't think, in fact we know the home is not worth near what they are asking. It has a lot of wrotten wood around the roof, all the windows have to be changed, mater bath needs a new floor and some tile work, the house has no laudry room meaning if the people who buy it want to keep the washer and dryer where it is now they're stuck with an upright that is 10 plus years old, and the worst part was the house has no storage for yard equipment. All of these problems we were going to take into consideration with our offer but oh well. Unless for some odd reason they decline the offer tomorrow (That'd be the seller) we'll just consider other options. We have had no luck with finding any other homes we like anywhere here in the vicinity of chattanooga. I may talk to a contractor or architect to see if we can maybe build, but wifey is very against it and I'd have to find a super choice lot for cheap to convince her. Its kind of a bummer, we went to O'Charlies (The only sit down restaurant besides Bucks in Ft. O) to drown our sorrows in horrible food, please never go there it sucked. But we're tryign to be Calvinistic about it and realize its all in God's will, which really comes in handy when things don't go your way. See while the non-calvinisitc person who bought the house is going to kick themself for paying too much for a house that needs a ton of work and regretting the "decision" he made I'll be laughing all the way to the bank with my confidence and pride in check because I know it was providence that kept us from buying the house. Now watch the sales agent call us up tomorrow and tell us the offer was a bluff to see if we'd make an offer. That'd be funny... in a weird way.
I'm at work while writing this blog. I was reading a news article on Yahoo
(My favorite site) and a family is sueing the maker of the video game Grand
Theft Auto 3 and Walmart after two brothers ages 15 and 16 went on a
shooting rampage on a TN highway shooting at cars passing by. OK now how
angry am I about this, very. For one the lawyer is just trying to take some
money from two of the biggest companies out there Walmart and Sony which
owns the company that made GTA 3. The families suing are the families of two
victims killed by the boys. Now if anyone should be sued, which i don't
think anyone should be because sueing for wrongful death is kind of
rediculous in my mind because no ammount of money is going to give you back
your deceased person (however i due think that a person who kills a person
should have to pay for burrial and tombstones--its only fitting those things
are expensive). But anyway if anyone should be sued its the boys or their
parents--probably more the parents. They're the ones who allowed their kids
to play a game that is rated mature when they were obviuosly not mature at
all. They couldn't differintiate from reality and video game. Now I'm not
trying to defend the game Grand Theft Auto because the game I must admit is
void of any sort of goodness and I would never let my kids play it until
they were old enough and out of my house. Parents need to be more
responsible and involved in their kids lives. Its hard i realize and you
can't always no what those rascally kids are up to but if a kid is playing a
video game he's most likely playing it on a tv or computer both things that
are hard to hide and hard to play without someone noticing. Most of my
video games that I played growing up were educational, or at least thats how
i spun it to my parents. Mario Bros taught me the virtue of persistence and
always striving forward no matter how many times you beat the bad guy and
your princess is in another castle. Tetris taught me how to arrange shapes
to fit, like a puzzle. F-zero taught me the value of a hover car flying at
massive speeds and how driving not on the road is a bad thing--causes your
car to explode, which is true in real life to some extent. Now Super Street
Fighter was a tough sell for the parents. I argued it taught the values of
street smarts and how to handle yourself in an altercation that turned
physical... I may have had to use my own money on that one i'm not sure.
Personally i think its important that parents keep playing video
games so that they know what their kids are playing. I plan on continuing to
play to stay educated on what games are ok for my future kids to play. So
really I play video games not for me, not to annoy my wife, but to make sure
my kids don't warp their minds like their father has.
Grrrr.... Spider solitare with four suits is the most challenging card game... I highly recommend it although YOU HAVE TO use the undo button otherwise you'll never win, and its not really cheating since there are so many choices its just a matter of trying to find the best choice... anyway i lost yet again.
If i were to give a title to the past few days of my life it would have to be HOUSE HUNT REVOLUTIONS... It seems our house hunt may either be reaching an exciting conclusion or a crashing halt that jars us out of dreaming of a home to live in. Either way its going to be a big mind job
After viewing tons of houses this week everyday almost we finally found a house both the wife and I agree on. Which finding a home isn't the hard part, its agreeing that its a home both of you can live in.
The home we have found is on Signal Mtn, as I believe I may have written earlier (I might not have ever posted it though cause I may have written at work and never emailed it to myself so...) Anyway for those who don't know Signal Mtn is the not so snobby half brother of Lookout Mtn. Basically all the Signal People weren't snobby enough for the likes of Lookout so they got the boot north to Signal. Never the less still a snobby mountain filled with wealthy socialites like Richie Rich, the kid from Silver Spoons, and the Monopoly Guy.
The house we fell in love with a soon as we crossed the threshold. Its a three bed two bath, hard wood floors, one story, big kitchen with a pantry (Huge deal for a southern wife who cooks like a Betty Crocker), Screened porch, fire place, and a yard that has grass. There were a few problems we found with the house... ONE: We looked at it on thursday, the listing expired today--we were a little unsure of the future of the home. This has been resolved since the owner has relisted it with another agency. TWO: This is the major problem... the house was redesigned with space in mind. They made it so only an upright washer/dryer will fit in the alloted laundry room space. This is a problem since we have a new washer and dryer we refuse to part with. Possible Solution: We're taking a friend of ours who's a local carpenter and general guy who does housey things to look at it and see if he can perhaps move a wall for a reasonable price--if he can then we can tell the seller to come down in price of that necessary maintence and then the house can be fixed and we can purchase it, hopefully. I'll let you know how that goes tomorrow. The other problems are it needs paint and some new windows, but those aren't major deals since most homes in our price range need that and just about anything else. We're going up tomorrow after church to check it out and hopefully get a good idea of what needs to be done and basically find out for sure if this is a home we really want to deal with. We hope it is since we love it, but looks can be deceiving, especially for a guy like me who looks at the surface, I judge a book by its cover, some times just by its price tag, but usually by its cover.
We're really hoping this is it. Frankly because if it isn't we'll probably wrap up our house search till spring. Its hard to find houses on the market that are worth getting after october and the month is almost over, that and we may need some time to recoup our losses after a devestating blow such as: This dream home is not good it has termites and mold. That'll be hard to swallow. Some friends and aquaintences have questioned whether it is wise for us to buy a home if I still have the idea of law school in my head. For those in doubt of the wisdom of buying a home I'd have to butcher a quote from O'Brother, "You ain't no kind a man, unless you got land."
But seriously I grew up in a real estate office. My mom was and is a real estate lady in St. Louis, has been for 20 some odd years and after school on the days that I wasn't sitting in front of the wood panneled TV, I was in the real estate office listening to the hub bub of the Sellers world. Listening to the sound of deals going down the tubes, the sound of that annoying lady who always sells more than anyone else, the sound of the toilet flushing as i saw how much TP could go down the hole without clogging it up, the sound of my mom making a deal and seeing it through, the smell of old women who wore too much perfume and were more tenacious than Tenacious D (For those who don't know who Tenacious D insert Shark for annalogy coherence). Buying a home is truly an investment, one that if people have a steady income should put towards building equity in a home. I've rented for the past two years and I can honestly say i see nothing more wasteful as far as spending money goes, well maybe the following are worse: Eating at Qudoba, Eating at Mojo Burito, buying an American car, betting on Mizzou to go undefeated, and eating at the Cigna Cafeteria. Other than those things renting is probably one of the biggest wastes of money out there. Reason? Where does your money go? Strictly into your land lords pocket. Do most land lord reinvest this money in the home or apartment you're renting?? Not if they want to make money off their tennants. I understand renting is a necessity, and I'm not trying to belittle my friends that do rent because thats rediculous. However to pay as much as wifey and I are paying at are apartment complex in the middle of no where Fort O. is completely pointless. We're paying for our land lord to make his complex look nicer so he can put more grass down and bring in more suckers to mooch off their money that they work hard for. Land lords are possibly a lower form of human life, they are moochers, bottom feeders if you will, living off the scraps of hard working americans or hard working illegal mexican immigrants. Land Lords or as they are commonly referred to as, slum lords, are like leeches, ticks, or vampires living off the blood sweat tears of common joe shmoe. I almost wish being a Land lord was somehow un-Biblical and that way we could run them out of town just like we ran those swindlers and carpet baggers out of town. I understand Slum Lords need to make a living, but to simply live on the hard earned money of others is un-American its down right Communistic. It just boils my potato grrr... I'm gonna punch my land lord right in the gut tomorrow, soon as I can find his mansion.... or after I ask him to unclog my drain in my shower, fix my fridge, and take in my mail while I'm out of town... but after that... oooh he's in for a big surprise...
Anyway before I digress any further into more meaningless rambles, hopefully our second look at this house tomorrow will go well. Wifey's folks are coming to take a look at it too so maybe we can all get along and say, "Hey this a sweet house and future home of the Holtons." Oh and that and I have to announce Jesse Strow of Strow enterprises is officially the first person to ever clog up by bathroom here, sorry strow but you left me a bomb that i had to plunge, public humilation is what you deserve.... walk the plank matey.
THe past few days have been a blur. Its work then home search for the past three days. Its good since we're trying to look before people start pulling their homes off the market for the holidays. I really want to move as I hate this apartment. I feel like its a cage boxing me and destroying my life essence, or at least making me feel closterphobic. We're having a hard time as most couples do when looking for a home. I want cheap and manageable the wife wants a good kitchen and spacious bathroom things that aren't usually cheap. I've sort of sold her on a home in North GA i like. Its in Flintstone which is right outside St. Elmo. I've convinced her so far that the commute to work won't be that bad and that the house is a good home for the price they're offering. The only major problem i see is the yard. It looks like a tornado went by the house, and turned around because it looked like he had already been there. The house is in good shape but the yard could use a good visit from mister soil the arch rival of Mr. Clean. The yard is mostly made up of rocks, glass, and I think i found a tire underneath all that. Its only on one side of the drive way, and the back yard is just in need of some landscaping.
We're going on our lunch break up to Signal Mt, Lookout's Redheaded step child, to look at home up there. Signal for those who've never been anywhere but Lookout is exactly like Lookout from what I'm told except all the snobs that weren't snobby enough for lookout got booted over to Signal. It could be a good home and have good resale since its in a good area. Plus its closer to church which is a good thing. Also i've determined it may be good since I'd be able to go to the bilo at the bottom of the mountain that serves sushi.... hmmmm cheap raw fish that makes me sick....So good. I wanted to watch the cubs game but my faith in them is not strong enough to stay up past 10:30. I hope for the best never the less.
Today was a good day in my mind in the world of sports. We went to the covenant soccer game and what in the first half looked like a game that was going to put me to sleep but then they turned it out and won 3 to zip. Covenant has played well this year considering they lost their two best forwards to torn acls. It is evident when watching the games that they just don't have the offensive power they had last year. Their defense is strong but without the offense you can't win all your games.
Another reason for the good sports day. The Cubs won. I have a lot of relatives in Chicago and have spent many of my summers there and consider it sometimes my home away from home and so have a special place in my heart for the cubs. Plus the cubs are showing the tenacity and spirit it takes to win championships, something cardinals have never seem to capture the past few years. So I'm all for the cubs going the distance.
Another reason for it being a good sports day just look at the scores of the College Football games. Georgia creamed TN and I really don't like either team much but TN fans can be some of the cockiest fans at times for no good reason. They walked into Auburn thinking it'd be a breeze, so much for that idea. OK state beat Kansas ST, which isn't that big of a deal but I don't like K-state so thats cool. Auburn beat Arkansas which isn't that big of deal either but I love the underdogs and I also hate Arkansas because thats the state where Clinton came from so i figure if they gave us Clinton than their can't be much worth in the state. Good Ole Mizzou beat the evil empire of Nebraska although it looked like they weren't going to get their game on. So a lot of underdogs won which makes me happy it makes the rankings more interesting.
Unfortunatley the Yankees won which i think was inevitable. I don't know if the Sox have what it takes to pull it off they seem too crazy evident by todays game of insanity. Got to respect Don Zimmer taking on Pedro, too bad the old man got tossed out like yesterdays garbage. Well tomorrow brings the day of rest. And i plan on resting.
Tonight was date night for the Holtons. After work I took wifey to Sekisui for a good old Sushi dinner. Wifey had only had california rolls before so had not fully partaken in a true sushi dinner. We ordered the early bird special since it was onlly 5:20 and got six California rolls, a shrimp, tuna, salmon, and white fish sushi each. Also each came with some Tempura stuff like shrimp and vegetables. Unfortunately I was a bit rusty on my sushi ordering skills and ordered too much food. We ordered an appetizer of Calamari Tempura which wasn't so great. The fried stuff didn't stay on the squid tentacle too well so it wasn't that great. Plus I'd forgotten how you get all those miscelaneous friend vegetables when you order anything tempura so we got two helpings of those and that was a bit much. Plus I wanted to get Tuna Rolls, which i thought my meal came with but it only came with one piece of tuna with the rice... i forget what its called, so I ordered a separate order of tuna rolls for myself which ended up to me too much food... but it was dang good. We ended up being the only ones in the restaurant so our food was there in no time. Wifey branched out and ate all of her food except she wasn't a big fan of the salmon, but neither was i, it was just a bit too much of a flavor to handle. My favorite still remains the tuna roll, good, faithful, tuna roll... he'll never let me down...
After dinner we walked to the Bijou and purchased tickets for Intollerable Cruelty. The movie was another hit in my mind by the Coen Bros. I'm always fascinated by how they can take a story about something I care little about and make it interesting, fun, and unique. Their movies are so bizarre, well filmed, wonderfully written, and for the most part impeccably shot. Going into the flick I expected to dislike it since it was about a divource lawyer something that I thought wouldn't make a great backdrop for a movie... i was wrong. But think about some of their other flicks, Fargo, does a movie about a cop way up in the middle of now where really sound all that interesting? Or how bout the Hudsucker Proxy a movie about the guy who invents the hoola hoop that was one of my favorite Coen Bros flicks because it took something so out of the ordinary and somewhat seemingly boring and made it amazingly exquisite. There stories are so creative that you can't help be but interested and entertained. And George Clooney seems to be the perfect character for any Coen Bros flick, his ability to speak so fluently and eloquently their script truly makes the movie. I'm not a huge Catherine Zeta Jones fan, in fact i've never liked a movie she's done but she wasn't too bad in this one. I give the Coen Bros a pat on the back as they have done yet again an amazing job at making me think and laugh.
I think there is only one movie they've done that comes to mind that I just couldn't like, The Man Who Wasn't There. I saw what they were trying to do in the movie, i liked it, but it was just too boring. Maybe it was Billy Bob Thorton's slow and methodic voice or possibly the plot which just couldn't seem to hold on to me but something about that movie put me to sleep, LITERALLY! It's the only movie I've watched for the first time and fallen asleep too, besides Date With an Angel but I was only 7 or 8 when I saw that. I saw a preview for the Return of the King and I must say I had some chills running down my body. I did not like the Two Towers because of the plot changes but the battle scenes from Return of the King may make me forget about all the crappy changes they've done in the movies. I will give the Lord of the Rings movies one thing, they've done a good job i think in capturing a view of Middle Earth, a view better than my imagination could have ever achieved... and i have a pretty good imagination if i do say so myself, and I do.
Man was I bored today. I must have emailed everyone I know at least twice, by the way I apologize for my boring emails. Yahoo is still goofy and we still have nothing to do. Soon it supposed to change but i just listened to cds today to make the time pass then at 4:30 i went to Crei Leike to hang with wifey. I played Text Twist on Yahoo games which is possibly one of the most addicting games, next to Jedi Knight Academy.
I wish i led an interesting life that way my blogging fans might have something interesting to read. Fact is i've always led a boring life and unfortunately for my wife, who used to be popular and the life of the party, I've dragged her into my boring life, well i guess its not a total loss for her, I mean she did get me and my hunky body...
So i lead a boring life example and i dragged wifey into it. She used to stay up to all hours of the night doing crazy things, now thanks to me she gets mad at me when I blog past 10 PM. Its now 10:27 and the look i'm getting is not a pleasant one. So i must blog off.
Well another day at work and another day without Yahoo!!! For those of you who don't know at my job level within Cigna I'm only allowed access to Yahoo on the internet. Firewalls keep you from accessing anything outside of Yahoo and the reason it is yahoo is some sort of deal they made with Yahoo. Cigna seems to like to make deals with companies that basically keeps them from giving their employees more freedom. Their cafeteria has a strangle hold on the food that is in that building. Its 70 cents for a soda, 1.12 for a 20oz. Candy is aorund 75 to a full dollar. Its the biggest scam. Well I had gotten quite used to only being able to see Yahoo but this week the site won't load on all the Account Manager's computers. Its freaking annoying since most of the time during the day when we aren't training there is nothing to do. So what do i do? Harrass people with emails...
Our house hunt continues we looked at three homes last night. The first one was a dump, more than the place i lived in St. Elmo. The carpet was completely stained, the floor in one bedroom was moldy, it reaked of stale cigarettes and pets, their was a gap in the siding (meaning there was some missing), the kitchen was the size of my closet, and the whole house was sagging. Price you ask 115,000. It was rediculous. The other two homes were nice. One was a rehabbed house that was really nice but had structure problems and was real small. Plus wifey checked the tax records and they're selling way over what they paid for it. The third home was cool. It was a home built in the 60s and looked like it was still in the 60s. It was real big but would have need so much as far as updating every room needed to be redone as far as paint, stripping wall paper, new kitchen, new bathrooms. It was nice and would have been a cool second home but a little too big for us. We continue our search and we'll see. We want to get a house before christmas but thats a pretty unlikely goal. Other than that my favorite song right now is Minimum Wage by They Might be Giants. Listen to it, you'll love it and think of me...
Mondays suck... why oh why do they have to exist? Every Monday I have seem to go through a ritual, questioning everything about my life... yeah that's why I hate mondays. I start thinking "Can I really work this job for more than a year? What if I miss my window to go to law school? Do I still want to go to law school? Can I even get into law school? What is law school? Am I a law school? If I were a law school which one would I be? Do ninja's have to go to law school? Am I a ninja? How much do ninjas make these days? On top of all this my only website that I have access to (Yahoo) wasn't working. I felt like my hands were tied, my eyes were blind folded, and my ears were covered. I actually had to work, I had no alternative... and of course I had nothing to do.
One thing I have decided, Cigna doesn't pay me enough to do nothing, I need a more lucrative do nothing job. And I decided I need to be the male version of Oprah.
I figure I'll change my name to Holprah or Chraph but that may get confused with the word crap. I'll talk to men about the issues that matter like video game separation anxiety also known as "How long can you play computer games before your wife yells at you." Also tackling the issue of Post-partyom depression or in layman's terms "Hangover's: How to keep the party going over 24 hours." Or on the other extreme Alcoholism, "When you drink so much you start arguing in the bar that the Redwings were the greatest baseball team in the American League." I'll have men crying, my own magazine with me on every cover, and my theme song "I'm every man." I'll get my own helicopter to take to work and guide the guideless males back to the dominace of the genders... er um I mean we'll play football. I seriously think women have come to dominance in the war of genders because of Oprah. She's a formidible leader like MacArthur, Napolean, Washington, Gengis Kahn, and Luke Skywalker. She has gathered her flock of emotional women and trampled testosterone right out of the world. I could say more but I'd probably have to sleep on the couch.
The short trip to Macon and back has ended. We went down stairs, as I like to call it, to Macon to visit Wifey's parents stopping in Atlanta to visit her grandparents as well. The food was good and southern so needless to say I'm in desperate need of a diet again. The trip was pretty uneventful. I went to Best Buy with my father-in-law, he wanted to find a TV bigger than they're current 20 incher. The space they wish to put the TV is only big enough for a twenty incher or possibly a 24 incher but as I told him, "Why pay 300$ big ones for four more inches." Especially with the whole digital wave of TV starting to crest. The sales people swooped down on him like crow upon a flatten squirrel in the middle of St. Elmo Avenue. I saw that he was a gonner so I wandered over to check out the video games... hey man its every man for himself when it comes to shopping... The sales vulchers told him this and that about HDTV, Flat Screens, and Plasma Rasma Cachasma Technology they also interrogated him to see if he had a progressive scan DVD player. He turned to me and I shook my head with an almost "I told you so" frown on my face. A few monthes ago I tried to convince my father in law to purchase a progressive scan DVD player so that he would not have to purchase a second DVD player when the switch to digital TV comes, I showed him that they were only about 90$ for a cheapo but he went the way of the 40$ DVD player purchased from a hardware store as a sales promotion. I grimmaced and knew this day was to come. I instructed my father in law to not purchase a TV and to stick it out with what he has because the TV market is setting itself up for a big transition in the next ten years and no one wants to be stuck with obsolete technology that they shelled hundreds of dollars for.
I kept my purchases to a minimum, a few CD-R's which I regretted when I went to Sams and found them for eighty cents more and 20 more CD-Rs and a better brand. I bought the ones from Sams and plan on returning the ones to Best Buy. I also bought a They Might Be Giants cd i think its Flood or something with or to that affect. I realize this band was cool and hip about ten or 15 years ago and that I'm behind the times but I figure its better to go backwards then forwards when it comes to purchasing music. If i go out on a limb with say the new Dave Matthews or White Stripes there is no gurantee that I may like the music. But a band that's had its 15 minutes of fame and made its mark on history and faded into somewhat obscurity i feel is safe. I know what i'm getting, I'm getting songs that were covered by Tiny Toon Adventures like Particle Man and Istanbul songs that remind me, "Hey these songs were so cool that one of my most favorite cartoons thought it appropriate to make a whole episode based on their songs." I guess its the historian in me that likes going into the past and finding those rare gems of music that aren't really good now and weren't all that great back then either, but man if they don't make you feel good. I mean think about all the depressing crap thats out there today "You got me feelin so Crazy right now...," "...I'm not into making sex... I'm into making Love...", and my personal favorite, "...Gonna have you naked by the end of this song..." What the heck is all this apple crappal? All I know is Triangle man hates Particle man and thats good enough for the bird house in my soul.
Another CD i've been tempted to purchase is the soundtrack to Prince's Purple Rain this is partly to blame on Jason Bintz's broadening my musical tastes. Now I know what you're thinking, "Chris isn't Prince a little tiny black man who wore purple and sang with a weird voice?" And yes, but being rather short myself i can honestly say he's sort of a hero of mine. Now I'm not saying i want to date Paula Abdul or make a crappy movie about my music career, I already tried to make that movie but no one was interested in a guy who makes it big playing the Spoons in small bars and alleys for nickels. But think about all the ladies Prince got, and the dude is like four foot tall (rough estimation) and he wore purple, one of the most effeminate colors next to pink. Now I don't want to be Prince or pursue a life as hedonistic and sexually active as his but the fact that he was short and made lots of money gives me hope that I being short can make lots of money too someday. If only I could die for you... I guess I can't but I can still party like its 1999.
I've been informed by my brother that I need to blog more often so that he has something to read everyday. Well I gots to do whats I gots to do. We had Jay and Ute over for dinner tonight and wifey out did herself yet again with an amazing roast, delicious biscuits, and some killer cookies. Finally tomorrow, Friday... aaaah I feel like kicking up my feet and relaxing.
Wifey and I are going down to Macon to see the folks and shoot the breeze. Wifey also found a cute home over in Hixson that could be pretty nice and we're having one of her co-workers show it to us.
Why does there have to be bra/underwear commercials on TV? I mean why do we need to see women in underwear on TV prancing around that doesn't make me want to go buy womens underwear. And especially if I ever saw a guy commercial for male underwear I'd be so disgusted I'd never want to buy underwear again.
And whats the deal with Ovalteen? The glass is round, if anything it should be called roundteen.
Well the kitchen needs to be cleaned and I need to clean it. That and I have nothing to write about.