slow sunday
Slow and fairly relaxing weekend. Most of it was spent building this here site, as well as running typical weekend stuff like grocery shopping and getting the car washed.
I also started watching the CSI season one box set that I bought last week, on the day it came out. It’s pretty cool, finally being able to see the episodes on my regular TV instead of a crappy compressed download from Kazaa. Here’s the thing about P2P networks - they suck for getting any kind of video. It took me forever to compile the collection of episodes I have now. The thing is, I would totally be willing to pay, say, $3 per episode for on-demand access to the entire CSI library, so I could watch episodes whenever I wanted to. I just don’t have a regular enough schedule to be home at 9pm every Thursday night to watch, and sometimes I forget to set my VCR. So I’ve had to resort to Kazaa for getting my fix, which means nobody wins in the end, not even me, really. I’d much rather watch the episode on my 27″ flatscreen TV than watch a 250×250 pixelated jam in front of my computer.
Anyway…whatever. Did I mention that I was addicted to CSI? I don’t really watch anything else except movies on cable. I haven’t watched any show regularly since the third season of the X-Files. I think I like the idea that the characters are geeked out on what they do, which is something you just don’t find that much these days when it’s kind of cool to be not interested in anything. Plus, it’s set in Vegas, which is…well, Vegas. Yes, I know they film in California - actually, they shot last week’s episode in Pasadena near where my friend lives, and I was going to go out there to watch, except I got in a car accident that day and didn’t have a car to drive out there.
So…my collection is the DVD set, all 3 CSI books (great short reads, despite the fact that Max Allen Collins inappropriately overuses the word “smirk” in the first two), and the limited edition $5 gambling chip from the Palms (of which I had two but I sent one to my brother’s girlfriend, who also is an addict). So bust.
Speaking of the Palms…headed there in a few weeks I think for a few days of R&R, low-limit blackjack (probably dimes), and general trouble. Howard Stern is going to be broadcasting from Vegas that week, so I’ll be checking that out too. Dope.
This is probably the longest entry I’ll ever write, because I’m sure I’m going to get tired of this blog in a few days. Nice work!