• 5Jul 09

  DVD weekend

  Hello. It was a hot weekend, and I spent the Fourth having a party with my cousin's family. They came over, and the older kids had sandwiches, while the new baby just sat there and gurgled. I held the baby! Wow, that was an experience.

  It was too hot this weekend to really spend a lot of time outside. I watched a couple of DVDs, "Burst City" and "Onmyoji." I also watched the first disc of the "Master Keaton" series. It was all right, some good writing in a couple episodes, but not spectacular. "Burst City" was a good surprise. The music was terrific.

  They had a good sale at the bookstore, and I was able to pick up a three-in-one Terry Brooks hardcover collection. Yipee! I can never seem to get his books at the library-- I've read the older ones, but the newer ones are always checked out. This time I figured I'd catch up on my summer reading all at once.

  That's it for now. I'm going to try to cool down. See you soon.

  

  This is a yo-yo which had candy inside it. The disc lights up when you use the yo-yo. No, really. It looks like a giant light-up tire.

  • Posted Jul 5, 2009 9:55 pm PT
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• 26Jun 09

  Bad week for people who like to breathe

  Wow. We lost Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett within a few days of each other. I'm stunned; I grew up when Jackson was just making his first few albums, and he was such a huge star, you wouldn't believe it. Rest in peace.

  I tested out the new dance pad for "DDR Universe" on my new X Box 360, and it works fine! I still have no rhythm, though. I have a habit of staying close to the top arrow and not being able to reach the bottom arrow in time. Yipes.

  My dog is all sorts of scared because there's a rainstorm. She'll calm down as soon as I have a pretzel.

  

  • Posted Jun 26, 2009 5:15 pm PT
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• 21Jun 09

  Game system says goodbye

  That's right. It got the red ring of death the other day. I switched it on and off several times, unplugged it, replugged it and did a bunch of other little checkups, but nothing would help. The rings kept coming back. I had the machine about a year and a half. I checked the ads at Game Stop.com, and a refurbished one is $150-200; a refurbished PlayStation 3 is $350 and up. I also called Game Stop's customer service line, and they said the store does not perform X Box 360 repairs. So I'm stuck with a non-working block of no value. I now have to worry about whether to wait for the sales later in the year, or maybe get a portable system to tide me over. I'll have to go ahead and cancel my subscription to Game Fly. The funny thing is, after the incident happened, I received my previous selection from Game Fly in the mail, and I had really been looking forward to playing it. The game was "Cabela's Dangerous Hunts." Also, I got a game in the mail that I had ordered from Game Fly's used games store. It was a wrestling game. So, I'm stuck here just staring at my TV, and wondering what I should do. My dog used to jump on the bed whenever I was playing X Box and try to eat the controller. Now she has nothing to do...

  "Animal Planet" finally has a "Cats 101" show, to match the "Dogs 101" series. I'm glad they're showing it now, because I've been thinking about adopting a cat, and it's good to know what the different breeds are like. I'll have to wait until I get an apartment, maybe later this year, but it'll be fun when I do.

  It's really hot in here. The thermometer on the alarm clock says it was 80 degrees before. Yipes. I've got to get some ice water.

  That's it for now. See you later. Thanks.

  

  100 colors of awesome.

  • Posted Jun 21, 2009 2:20 am PT
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