Ok, I think I'm going to get the Denon AVR-391 (see ad) instead of the Onkyo TX-8255. Surround sound may not be a big concern to me, but it would be nice to have unlocked sound vs. the caged sound of regular CD. Although it may never be the case that plain ol' everyday good++ music will be routinely put on SACD or DVD-Audio or Blu-ray audio discs, it would be nice to be able to have that capability in my home (so far the only blu-ray audio disc I've seen is that Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album, MOJO I think was the name of it, and I totally didn't like that CD, although i can't say I've ever been flat out in love with any of TP&HB's music, although they do have a large handful of pleasantries on any of their hits discs). BTW, if any record execs are reading this, please quit wasting your time, er, I mean, PLEASE stop releasing SACD versions of albums and then taking them off the market two years afterward. SACD should not be a "collector's" item.
I finally have a debit card! BigCrumbs, a cashback service, offered to put my cashback on a "pre-paid" Mastercard, AND they automatically put $5 on the card just 'cause I activated it right away (!!). So I finally was able to use one of those DVD rental kiosks, since a convenience store located a bit up the street from my house did install one of them a month or so ago. i don't have hardly any cashback incoming, and i got hardly any purchase power in December (it's all going to Xmas gifts and clothing), it'll probably be March or April b4 I see anymore $ on the thing. But as I mentioned, I will be buying the Denon AVR391 in January, or early February, unless the "tax assistance" program is canceled by 2011...I plan to buy that and some bookshelf speakers, all together totaling over $300, and BigCrumbs offers 4% via J&R Electronics' website, so that's $12 in cashback I should be expecting. BigCrumbs does expect you to wait almost 2 months for the money to be dispensed, but that'll significantly increase my purchase power in March or April (depending on how long the "tax assistance" check takes to get here).
ah, yes, and the weather is actually nice today. It's been cloudy/foggy/gray-for-whatever-reason-Mr.-Weather-Man-might-have-said for almost a week. Now we can eat...
Hopefully my Gramma will feel up to making dinner Friday. She signed up to work Thursday, although she doesn't know if she's going to be needed, they'll let her know prolly tomorrow or that day...but anyway, she was in the hospital yesterday, I guess she still is, she should be getting out today.
Oh, yeah. My birthday was Saturday. I didn't get anything ON that day, I was hoping my Gramma would remember and stop by with $10+, so me and my mom could go to Starbucks. They were having a BOGO sale on their holiday drinks from 2-5. Sunday was the last day. I still have a free drink from Starbucks, all I had to do was tell them my email address and all that...and of course load money onto a gift card...so b/c they have my email address etc. I not only got a free "birthday" drink (they sent me that earlier in the month and it expires in late December), but i was made aware of the BOGO offer via a promotional email. SEE??? YOU'RE ALL DUMB FOR NOT JUMPING ON THIS! Well, to each his (or her...ah-hem) own...i guess...
Anyway, my mom got me a GHOSTBUSTERS II figurine, part of a Toys 'R' Us exclusive collector's boxed set w/ all 4 of the 'Busters; someone was selling it by itself on eBay. I bid on it, my mom paid for it. She said "can this be your birthday present?" and I said "yeah, that'd be perfect!". And I think I already posted about the $25 whole ones that my sister presented to me in the form of an Amazon gift card. Already got 3 of the items I bought w/ it, still waiting on the other two. One of them was just shipped yesterday and the other one is coming from England, may take awhile...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
my $25 birthday gift - circa Nov. 17th
My sister sent me a $25 Amazon gift card somewhere around 8pm on Wednesday, although I didn't get it 'til after 1am on Thursday...but yeah. I was shopping on Amazon from then 'til about 6am. She sent it to me early b/c I asked her to loan me a $5 apprx Amazon gift card to pay for an Out Of Print DVD edition of THE EXORCIST. I had placed the order, but it wouldn't go through b/c I didn't have any valid form of payment...I had a debit card that my bank deactivated, but Amazon doesn't know that b/c my bank is legally obligated not to tell them (isn't privacy great?). But anyway, my sister sent me the gift card early so that wouldn't be canceled. Turned out the seller didn't have it after all...not sure how/why...kinda rude of him not to send an apology or something more along the lines of an explanation at least...
Anyway; I also bought THE SOUND OF THE SMITHS: THE VERY BEST OF THE SMITHS (that's almost like two titles isn't it?) by The Smiths, a remastered compilation released in 2008. And Michael Jackson's DANGEROUS, Martin Scorsese's 1999 film BRINGING OUT THE DEAD on DVD and Cartel's Sony re-release edition of CHROMA.
I almost bought Jawbreaker's DEAR YOU, been wanting that awhile, but Barnes & Noble dot com has that for over $1 cheaper and I get UPS 3day delivery w/o added cost if my mom buys it on my behalf (she has the membership in her name, I paid for half of it...) and B&N keeps sending me and/or my mom coupons, so if I had the $ b4 X coupon xpired, I'd save at least $2 off Amazon (Marketplace)'s mnm price.
Been listening to Grooveshark the last couple days. MySpace Music's service has been filled with bugs that last couple weeks or more. AVG Anti-virus software told me I had two somethingorother bad thingies on my computer and didn't tell me what I should do about it. I clicked "remove all unhealed" and they told me "forceful removal may cause instability or crash", but I didn't know what else I was supposed to do. Now every time I load a program or window, a warning of a "bad image" loads up. I can ignore it or I can click "OK" and it'll go away. It doesn't seem to interfere with the operation of my computer. Really annoying tho. But while I was trying to perhaps find the source of that b.s., I removed almost 20 programs from my computer including Opera browser and of course I got sick beyond comprehension of Internet Explorer, but I didn't like the way Opera doesn't gel with a lot of websites too well (mainly Amazon, also a few others) so I went back to Firefox after almost a year or more of absence from my computer.
Don't really know what else to say...OH! I got sick for about a day, something that's been going around. My mom's housekeeper seemed to have caught it too and the last time she was here was at least a week ago. I got sick on Monday, the housekeeper was here either Thursday or Friday...my Mom got sick on Friday or Saturday i think...I guess the housekeeper might have caught it from Mom, but I don't think my mom would have been so careless. She called the housekeeper after she found out I was sick and told her not to come b/c of that. But anyway...I think I heard of at least a couple other people who had whatever that was I had. Don't remember what exactly I heard or where, but anyway...
I've been going way too long w/o showers. I finally took one last night and the time before that was either Monday or Tuesday - not the one that just passed, but the one BEFORE that. I mean, I admit, a week w/o a shower isn't healthy or pleasant, although I'm hesitant to take one more often than that just 'cause the act of taking off my clothes, picking new ones out, drying off, and taking the shower itself is a bit of a chore to me. I'd rather just listen to music or talk or drink coffee or read or whatever...but a week and a half is just nonsense. I mean, if this is how long I'm gonna be in between showers in the winter...this past summer the average time between showers was at least 5 days. And that's being generous towards myself. I shouldn't go more than 3 days, if that, and i know there were at least a few times I went over a week w/o one. Of course in Sept, it was way hotter than normal, so I didn't take hardly any showers then. Then toward the end of the month I suddenly realized 'oh, I guess summer's decided to stay a bit longer...'...
And I've neglected this blog obviously. I hope to get this back on a more steady path...maybe make reading it less of a chore...ha!
Anyway; I also bought THE SOUND OF THE SMITHS: THE VERY BEST OF THE SMITHS (that's almost like two titles isn't it?) by The Smiths, a remastered compilation released in 2008. And Michael Jackson's DANGEROUS, Martin Scorsese's 1999 film BRINGING OUT THE DEAD on DVD and Cartel's Sony re-release edition of CHROMA.
I almost bought Jawbreaker's DEAR YOU, been wanting that awhile, but Barnes & Noble dot com has that for over $1 cheaper and I get UPS 3day delivery w/o added cost if my mom buys it on my behalf (she has the membership in her name, I paid for half of it...) and B&N keeps sending me and/or my mom coupons, so if I had the $ b4 X coupon xpired, I'd save at least $2 off Amazon (Marketplace)'s mnm price.
Been listening to Grooveshark the last couple days. MySpace Music's service has been filled with bugs that last couple weeks or more. AVG Anti-virus software told me I had two somethingorother bad thingies on my computer and didn't tell me what I should do about it. I clicked "remove all unhealed" and they told me "forceful removal may cause instability or crash", but I didn't know what else I was supposed to do. Now every time I load a program or window, a warning of a "bad image" loads up. I can ignore it or I can click "OK" and it'll go away. It doesn't seem to interfere with the operation of my computer. Really annoying tho. But while I was trying to perhaps find the source of that b.s., I removed almost 20 programs from my computer including Opera browser and of course I got sick beyond comprehension of Internet Explorer, but I didn't like the way Opera doesn't gel with a lot of websites too well (mainly Amazon, also a few others) so I went back to Firefox after almost a year or more of absence from my computer.
Don't really know what else to say...OH! I got sick for about a day, something that's been going around. My mom's housekeeper seemed to have caught it too and the last time she was here was at least a week ago. I got sick on Monday, the housekeeper was here either Thursday or Friday...my Mom got sick on Friday or Saturday i think...I guess the housekeeper might have caught it from Mom, but I don't think my mom would have been so careless. She called the housekeeper after she found out I was sick and told her not to come b/c of that. But anyway...I think I heard of at least a couple other people who had whatever that was I had. Don't remember what exactly I heard or where, but anyway...
I've been going way too long w/o showers. I finally took one last night and the time before that was either Monday or Tuesday - not the one that just passed, but the one BEFORE that. I mean, I admit, a week w/o a shower isn't healthy or pleasant, although I'm hesitant to take one more often than that just 'cause the act of taking off my clothes, picking new ones out, drying off, and taking the shower itself is a bit of a chore to me. I'd rather just listen to music or talk or drink coffee or read or whatever...but a week and a half is just nonsense. I mean, if this is how long I'm gonna be in between showers in the winter...this past summer the average time between showers was at least 5 days. And that's being generous towards myself. I shouldn't go more than 3 days, if that, and i know there were at least a few times I went over a week w/o one. Of course in Sept, it was way hotter than normal, so I didn't take hardly any showers then. Then toward the end of the month I suddenly realized 'oh, I guess summer's decided to stay a bit longer...'...
And I've neglected this blog obviously. I hope to get this back on a more steady path...maybe make reading it less of a chore...ha!
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