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Brrr....
1/16/2009
Things have been going along well lately. I can't think of too much to report.
It's been really cold over here in the past few days. Rochester Public Schools canceled their classes yesterday and today because the morning temperature was -25 with -50 windchill readings. It's supposed to warm up so that will be nice.
I've been watching the TV series Dead Like Me on my Xbox 360 recently. It's about a girl who dies and then becomes a grim reaper who has to take people's souls before they die horrible deaths. It's pretty entertaining. It's much more humorous than I just made it sound. It's available on Netflix Watch Instantly so I've been trying that out. I really like that service on Netflix, but they need to improve their selection of movies and try and work on a way to get 5.1 sound to work for streaming video. I wouldn't watch a blockbuster film with just stereo sound if I could get the disk.
My car has been having some issues lately. I've always had bad luck with tires so this shouldn't have been too surprising. The car had a flat back around November which was discovered during an oil change. They repaired it and then noticed that my wheel bearing was bad. $600 later everything was back to normal. On my way to Green Bay for Christmas I lost about 8 pounds of pressure on one of my tires so I had to take it in again to a place in Green Bay. Apparently I had a bead leak and they also informed me I needed new tires, because the tread wear was getting to be very small. When I headed home I bought some new tires at Discount Tire Co. The tires are pretty nice, but not something I wanted to spend money on. It also may or may not be leaking engine coolant. I haven't seen enough evidence so far to say that it is or isn't though.
I've been playing Gears of War 2 as far as gaming goes. I also finished up Fable 2 recently and I've been playing Fallout 3 on and off. There were too many good games released at the end of 2008 and it's hard to play them all. I will be going back to Fable 2 at some point because they released some new downloadable content. I'll probably start that again once I finish Gears of War 2.
I don't think I mentioned it but I took down the Netflix movie list on my sidebar for the website. I forgot why exactly, I think there were problems with it loading. Eventually I will try and put it back up, but it's not high on my list of priorities right now. In its place I put a flash application showing my Twitter feed, in case anyone cares what I am doing or likes reading random sentences that I post.
If you weren't paying attention to the CES show in Las Vegas this past week then you've been missing out. Palm finally introduced a new phone that looks good for once. It's called the Palm Pre and is exclusive to Sprint. I'm on AT&T so I can't really get it, but was planning on getting a new phone soon anyway. Right now I'm leaning toward the iPhone with the possibility of the Blackberry Bold. The Bold is $100 more expensive right now and I'm not sure I'd get $100 more worth of fun out of it. I will probably figure out the phone situation over the next week or so.
It's been really cold over here in the past few days. Rochester Public Schools canceled their classes yesterday and today because the morning temperature was -25 with -50 windchill readings. It's supposed to warm up so that will be nice.
I've been watching the TV series Dead Like Me on my Xbox 360 recently. It's about a girl who dies and then becomes a grim reaper who has to take people's souls before they die horrible deaths. It's pretty entertaining. It's much more humorous than I just made it sound. It's available on Netflix Watch Instantly so I've been trying that out. I really like that service on Netflix, but they need to improve their selection of movies and try and work on a way to get 5.1 sound to work for streaming video. I wouldn't watch a blockbuster film with just stereo sound if I could get the disk.
My car has been having some issues lately. I've always had bad luck with tires so this shouldn't have been too surprising. The car had a flat back around November which was discovered during an oil change. They repaired it and then noticed that my wheel bearing was bad. $600 later everything was back to normal. On my way to Green Bay for Christmas I lost about 8 pounds of pressure on one of my tires so I had to take it in again to a place in Green Bay. Apparently I had a bead leak and they also informed me I needed new tires, because the tread wear was getting to be very small. When I headed home I bought some new tires at Discount Tire Co. The tires are pretty nice, but not something I wanted to spend money on. It also may or may not be leaking engine coolant. I haven't seen enough evidence so far to say that it is or isn't though.
I've been playing Gears of War 2 as far as gaming goes. I also finished up Fable 2 recently and I've been playing Fallout 3 on and off. There were too many good games released at the end of 2008 and it's hard to play them all. I will be going back to Fable 2 at some point because they released some new downloadable content. I'll probably start that again once I finish Gears of War 2.
I don't think I mentioned it but I took down the Netflix movie list on my sidebar for the website. I forgot why exactly, I think there were problems with it loading. Eventually I will try and put it back up, but it's not high on my list of priorities right now. In its place I put a flash application showing my Twitter feed, in case anyone cares what I am doing or likes reading random sentences that I post.
If you weren't paying attention to the CES show in Las Vegas this past week then you've been missing out. Palm finally introduced a new phone that looks good for once. It's called the Palm Pre and is exclusive to Sprint. I'm on AT&T so I can't really get it, but was planning on getting a new phone soon anyway. Right now I'm leaning toward the iPhone with the possibility of the Blackberry Bold. The Bold is $100 more expensive right now and I'm not sure I'd get $100 more worth of fun out of it. I will probably figure out the phone situation over the next week or so.