Current mood:

crappy

Stuff

I've been home sick the last few days. I'm still sick. It's just a stupid head cold that I let get the better of me. Looking back, I could feel it coming on Sunday and Monday. Probably getting exhausted and dehydrated doing the Ikea thing didn't help. It's not really a bad cold as much as I just feel miserable. On the bright side, I asked Janna to pick up some sudafed and apparently they still sell the real stuff because she found some and after signing her name in the meth lab book, it really cleared a lot more congestion than the replacement does.

I guess it was wednesday that we sat down and decided to watch something on DVD and were met with massive disappointment. It wouldn't respond to anything. And when I did the pull the plug 30 seconds to reset it, well nothing lit up. Bad motivator I guess. I can't gripe too much, this was a $30 Best Buy special that turned out to have progressive scan and component video output which meant it would outupt at higher resolution when we got our HDTV. We waffled, but we're doing ok, so we sprang for a blu-ray player. A Sony that AVS forum recommended as a best buy. It occurred to me that this is probably only the second Sony electronic item I've ever owned, the first being a Walkman (as in the original Walkman). The difference even on normal DVDs is noticeable, even to Janna. Oddly, what first caught our eye was a DVD of the old Mission Impossible series where we noticed the crispness in the burning fuse on the titles. Very good series btw, if you've never seen it, well worth a watch.

I listened to the debate between Smart and Dumb on Thursday evening and while obviously Smart won by far, I was actually quite alarmed at how well Dumb did. Seeing bits of it on youtube and realizing she was actually and quite obviously reading her answers changed my opinion a great deal. I think tomorrow is when the tracking polls will start to show the debate effect. But we're still hopeful. That's what it's all about hope? Or so says the large magnetic thing on the front of my scooter. Speaking of which, I also ordered a SPAZ sticker for the scoot.

Other than that, playing a lot of Warhammer, watching a lot of tv, drinking a lot of liquids and blowing my nose.