Random ramblings

How about several blogs for the price of one?  Yes?  No?  Meh?  Alrighty then!

* Finally got a vacation day in yesterday.  It was the third attempt at a day off this month (something I stressed with my boss) and this time it actually happened.  I made a cursory phone call to one of my guys in the afternoon to check in and see if everything was peachy-keen-neato (it was) and then back to the rum and cokes!

* Have a few errands to run today, including picking up some new clothes.  Not going to spend a fortune because I'm still in the middle of losing weight (lots more to come) but the pants situation has to update because they pretty much won't stay up anymore.  And no, thats not based on a conscious decision by me heh.  Thats a good thing I guess, I just hate wasting money on "in between" clothes but oh well.

* Still hating my PS3.  As a gaming machine I find its pretty much a substandard piece of equipment compared to the 360, however as a multimedia device it has its uses.  I've bought a handful of new blurays (most of which I have on dvd already...sigh) and am enjoying that aspect of it at least.

* Speaking of the PS3, I enjoyed the Heavy Rain demo.  I returned all but one game I had bought for the PS3 and paid off a bunch of 360 pre-orders.  The only game I kept for the system was the GoW collection but I may rent HR next week when it comes out.  I would buy it outright, but while the demo seems cool I can see some aggravation with the gameplay mechanics hitting home after extended play, plus I'm not sure how much replay value there would be for this.

* I have finally figured out how I want to rearrange the living room after getting the new furniture last weekend.  Only problem is I'm going to need some help lugging the heavier items around, so either I'll wait til next week when my son is up or I'll see if I can grab a buddy or 2 to give me a hand.  I hate to do that though because this stuff IS heavy and I don't want anyone screwing up their back.  We are getting older, afterall.

* Speaking of my living room, still waiting for my landlord to replace the blinds over the patio door.  The village I live in does annual apartment inspections, and 2 years ago (yes, years) the dumbass from the village broke my blinds while inspecting my unit.  Apartment unit, that is heh.  Anyway I was not happy to come home and find part of them tossed aside on the floor and the blinds themselves not able to move.  I've been even less happy that my landlord has taken several years to fix this, something I last mentioned to him a week or so ago.  I'm going to drop the subject for now though because my new lease is due and I'm hoping to go another year without a rent increase.  But either way these things have to get replaced, they're jerry-rigged like you wouldn't believe right now.

* Anybody watching Lost?  Hot damn this is good stuff.  I have a theory about how this is all going to end, and I will post that later in the Lost thread on the TV board.  But man, I can't get over just how good this show is.  The casting was fantastic from the start, as the actors have stepped it up bigtime (especially Terry O'Quinn, Josh Holloway and Matthew Fox) to match both the writing and viewer expectations.

And...I think thats it for now.  I have a few other things but I'll probably save those for later and give them their own blog.  I'm still going to post a pic of my newest bass at some point and maybe once I get the living room done post a pic of that.  I think its going to look pretty nice so I'm excited about that.

Alrighty, if you waded through all this then as always...thanks for reading!