Its been a little while since my last post, so this will be a post that catches you up with what I've been up to for the last little while. First, the big news: I bought a new TV! I ended up choosing option 2 from my list of options in TV Shopping. I figure that choosing that option is the best price/performance that I can get for my money. While LCD screens are really starting to go mainstream, I decided to hold out on that and rely on a more proven technology. I decided on the Toshiba 30HF85C. Its a 30" CRT HDTV, and a pretty massive one at 111lbs. From my eye, the TV has excellent picture quality, and has enough inputs to handle my xbox, dvd player, vcr and my roommate's PS2.

I picked up the TV yesterday. It cost me $690 for the TV and then I bought some cables and I actually went for Vision's extended warranty for 3 years. I usually go against buying extended warranties, but two major things swayed my decision here. First, if you don't use the warranty, you get the same amount in store credit (so in 3 years, if I don't use it, I can buy something new and fancy - perhaps a HD-DVD system). Second, if I ever have problems, instead of dealing with Toshiba and having to send the TV to them, I get to have people from visions come and fix it at my house. With the TV being an 111lb behemoth, I figure that's a good bargain. I guess thirdly, the warranty was $75, which I didn't think was unreasonable.

Alright. What else have I been up to? On the weekend, I played a bunch of poker and won about $100 over the three days. I spent some time hanging out with Diane which was wonderful as always :) On Sunday night, my mom, Diane and I went to a church seminar where they played a taped presentation by Lee Strobel called "A Case for a Creator". It was pretty interesting ... but I think I'll save my comments on that for another post.

Yesterday was TV buying day. My mom was free and was thankfully willing to drive around to Ikea and then to the south side visions so I could by a TV stand and then the TV. We got back to my place and I set everything up and then cleaned up my living room which was torn apart the night before to make room for the new television.

So that's been my busy week, and the next week looks like it'll just get busier! Such is life ... Heraldk