The consumer electronics blues
Christmas is coming, so it's time to go cross-eyed from staring relentlessly at Amazon.com.....hoping for answers. Actually, buying for others wasn't bad, but I drove myself batty researching mp3 players. And today, after watching two-thirds of Superman II, my DVD player revealed its true nature as a piece of junk. I didn't expect much for $36, but the skipping kept getting worse as the movie went on. I finally took the disc out to make sure it wasn't defective. It was fine, so I stuck it back in. Then, I could not get the chapter select function to take me back to where I was in the movie. The player kept freezing. And with that, I boxed it up and found my receipt. Back to WalMart it will go in the morning. But now I have to find another one. It looks like all the small DVD players are mediocre at best. *sigh*
In other news, life is boring enough for me to be borderline obsessive about my two favorite tv shows. The first is Veronica Mars, which is on winter hiatus until mid-January. I bought the first season DVD set a couple months ago when I was home sick, and watched half the season in two days. For more, you must check out www.televisionwithoutpity.com No site has more snark per square inch. My newest addition to the "must watch" schedule is Crossing Jordan. I'd never seen more than a couple of eps prior to A&E's Thanksgiving marathon, but now I'm hooked, which means I'm up til midnight Monday - Thursday watching it in syndication on A&E. And I'll admit it....I've been known to tune out on episodes without Jerry O'Connell. Yep, I'm a schmuck. But do you remember Sliders?
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