Sitting in my Philly condo on Sunday. Sun is setting. Got a ton of goodies from Best Buy and Circuit City to install. Was in Talleyville, Delaware again. In previously blog entries I mistakenly said I was in Wilmington, Delaware. My bad. Circuit City let me down while I was there. Sorta. I was buying two Western Digital WDXC1200JBRNN 120GB superfly external harddrives that were priced at $179 (after a $50 rebate). Did I get that? Hell, no. They rang up for $249 (with no rebate). Shenanigans! I call Shenanigans! Circuit City dude offered me $50 off the top for just one. Fine. I then hit CompUSA. Crap. At Best Buy I found these neat Acomdata RPH160U2E-72 160GB external Rocket Pod drives. You can stack ’em like pancakes. Yeah, they don’t have neon tubes inside, but I’ll live. I was then back at Circuit City and made my return. Bah.
Comcast sucks. My cable connection goes in an out of consciousness every 10 freakin’ minutes. Damnation! Hellfire! I can’t stand it. I am tempted to dump them and move to DSL. Tempted. Ugh! This is worse than dating a manic depressive. Jesus! Just kill me now.
Ugh! Where was I? Oh. I went to the car show around 10 days ago. Pennsylvania Convention Center is HUGE. Just down the road. Got a free ticket from one of my fantastic clients. Fantastic! It took me two hours to get through every car. I hate them all except The Honda Element. That’s right. I said I HATE THEM ALL. Every 2004 car in there sucked. Okay, the Corvettes didn’t suck, but I’ve already got one at the moment. The Element is funky. I like that. It’s inevitable that I’ll be driving one at some point after I’ve made up my mind like this. My dad says to watch out for the Honda’s timing belt which is supposedly notorious for causing uber-damage if it should fail. Will do, Dad.
My dog walker lives on one side of my condo with his girlfriend. They make almost no noise whatsoever. Great people. The neighbors on the other side, however, are masters of annoyance. They have some Brazilian sounding song they looooove to play every weekend. Over and over. Sometimes they sing to it. I’d like to get that electromagnetic pulse thing from ”Ocean’s 11” and point it at the wall the next time that damn song starts up. These people are also addicted to American Idol. I can’t stand that show. It’s just tha Simon guy degrading everyone. I had enough of that back when I was in Jr. High.
Saw ”Monster” starring Charlize Theron this weekend. It was amazing! No wonder she didn’t show up for the ”Italian Job” premiere last year. She’d gained a ton of weight and done whatever possible to look weathered. Amazing. The movie was great. Christina Ricci was so convincing as her sidekick that all carnal desire I ever held for her was abruptly silenced like a wet towel. I’m betting Theron gets the Academy Award next weekend. People always get an award if they play and an unattractive or mentally challenged character. What’s up with that? I’ll take some of that action. Bring it!
