The Bipolar Otaku

Well, I tried emailing a blog off my phone, but it must have gotten lost. Oh, I know. I'll check my outbox!

Welcome back to the world of DVDs

I finally moved my TV over. And I bought a PS2. And to
commemorate the event, Im watching Almost Famous...
Ive waited too long to watch it again. Still an
awesome movie. Love Kate Hudson. Love Anna Paquin (no
matter how small her part). And love the music...

Eh... stupid message. Should have left it lost, I guess.

But, I besides buying my PS2 today, I also put my order in for my Onkyo HT-S777C (ie. my stereo system). It's only a 6.1, and it doesn't do up-converting to S-Video or Component video, but at $700, it's a lot cheaper than all the pieces and parts that I would buy separately (roughly $3000 before cables, for what I was planning). So maybe I'll upgrade it a little bit at a time before I finally buy my big screen TV. And I will need to buy a big screen TV, because a 32" screen is much too small for my great room. I will need about a 50" (or maybe a little bigger, but not much). But buying a plasma won't be completely necessary, like I thought it would be. I was thinking I would need a plasma so that I could mount the screen right above the fireplace, thus avoiding the double-focal point that most TV's cause in rooms with fireplaces, but the high mounting location of the plasma above the fireplace would cause too much strain on the necks of the low-sitting couch potatoes. So I can wait a little while before wasting my money on a plasma (which, I believe, will go through at least 4 more generations of development in the next 2 years anyway, but even so will be surpassed in price, quality, and size availability by large LCD screens, once they start developing on more flexible surfaces). Anyway, money is spent. bling bling....

Speaking of money, Sears finally extended me a line of credit, so now I can go shopping for a washer and dryer, which would be good since I bought laundry detergent today. Now the only question is if I should be waiting for their "next" series of washer and dryer (HE4's), or if the current one (HE3's) is good enough, or what do the stores actually have, since I know that The Great Indoors in Novi have the HE4's, even though the website does not...