So...Friday my brother came in my room and asked if I wanted to go with him to get his truck looked at, because the speedomoter wasn't working, and they had fixed his brakes, so maybe they screwed it up. Before we went to drop his truck off, we went to Best Buy, because he wanted to see about getting a best buy card or finding a surround sound system or a dvd player, since his isn't working right.
I wasn't going to go with him, but I did, and it wasn't so bad. We went to Best Buy, I looked around at the dvd's- mainly tv on dvd and horror movies...looked at some of the tv tuner cards they have- they have the ati pro for $99, and it's good for what I want one for. I'll probably buy it in a cpl weeks, because I really want to record TV shows on VHS and onto DVD as well. Then again, the new system has a 120 GB hard drive, so I can store some on that itself.
Anyhow, we went to Midas and they said it would be an hour or two, so we walked down to the pet shop and looked around...I was looking at the rabbits and the hamsters and stuff...cute things. They had a bunch of ferrets too. In this big glass encased corner of the room.
We left after about 20 mins and he said he wanted to get something to eat, and we should go across the street to Arby's. I said sure, but decided why don't we go to Rafferty's, which is my favorite restaurant. He said yes, and we went there...it was slow at the time of day, so we sat at a booth in the bar. I ordered the jackson hole filet (filet mignon, not fish!), a loaded baked potato, and the house salad with house dressing, which is bacon and honey mustard...and a bowl of potato soup that had shredded cheese and bacon bits in the middle of it. Great place to eat. Good service as well, especially since we were the only ones in the bar area.
Next, we went to get his truck...then went to circuit city so he could try to get a card there. He didn't try to get a card at best buy, because they said you had to have a credit card to apply, which is odd if you ask me. I looked around at DVD's and CD's...and checked our the speakers and receivers. I bought a ZENITH hi-fi VCR for $50...should have waited and gotten the panasonic for $60. because it's one model higher than the VCR I bought in December, and I've had no problems with it. I noticed the JVC has tracking problems that I don't have on my tapes with the Panasonic. I just needed a second hi-fi VCR to edit stuff, to put tv shows on the same tapes and in order. Stuff like that...it should work fine for it. It's got some decent features- like it shows the title of whatever you have taped on the screen when you hit enter...it also shows how much tape is left at any point in the tape- same as the Panasonic. The tracking bugs me, as I mentioned...it's auto digital tracking, but it never works, and you have to do it yourself...and even when you fix it, it still has a little fuzz at the bottom of the screen, which is bearable but annoying to say the least.
Anyhow...
They sent me an E-Mail notice on the PC I ordered, and tracking numbers for UPS...tho, it says it arrived in Indianaplois May 15 at 8AM and that's the end of it...maybe UPS doesn't ship anything on Sundays? Then again, why did they not ship it to Evansville if they had all day Saturday? No clue. I'm impatient as it is. Want to get it all set up, see what speaker package I can find for cheap, and a tv tuner card, and then I'm done. I got paid this week, but I already have a cpl hundred saved- the PC was $544, so that set me back a bit. I'm probably going to open up a savings account here soon. Better than having it in an envelope at home on my desk.
Well, I finished John Stossel's book, Give Me a Break, and I picked up a few others at the library yesterday. Got the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Companion, since I'm a fan of those movies...also picked up Kenneth Timmerman's book called Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America. Looks to be pretty interesting. Stossel's book was really good. The guy is smart...tho, I don't agree that drugs should be legalized and that homosexuality is perfectly normal as he does. I disagree with some of his other views, but overall he's got the right idea about limited government, and a reform of the legal system with fewer regulations on business, and making it harder to sue, since lawsuits bring about such harm to the public in general.
I'm at work right now (LOTS of work to do, as you can see), so I guess I will be shutting up now, getting me a root beer from the machine, and coming back up and reading some of this book by Timmerman.
Oh, by the way...pick up the Chapelle's Show DVD. It's hilarious and the commentary on 4 of the episodes (4 or 5 episodes, I forget) is really funny too
Posted by Josh at May 16, 2004 04:25 PM | TrackBack