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...
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