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Updatey stuff
Jul. 19th, 2010 09:55 pmAs I mentioned, my parents were here this weekend. My mother, of course, brought with her cheeseburgers, broccoli salad, and corn on the cob, which is pretty much a trifecta if she were trying to kill me. :-P If she'd included bran flakes and strawberries, she'd have had Crohn's bingo. On the plus side, I'm almost at eight weeks without my symptoms coming back (with the exception of certain foods), so we may have finally found the right dose on the Remicade.
While they were here, we finally (FINALLY) went to the Verizon store to get new phones. My parents have been complaining about their phones not holding a charge forever, and I couldn't get a new phone on my own because I'm on a family plan, which means my dad had to be there to sign the contract. Anyway, I ended up with an LG en-V Touch. I don't really know how it works yet. I almost got a Droid, but I didn't want to pay for the more expensive data plan.
I think I am losing stamina in my TV-watching project. It is quite a lot of work, but my Netflix queue is hovering at a perilous 499 and I feel almost obligated to clear it out a bit. I'm almost finished with Rome, though I don't think I'll have much to say about it that I haven't said about it already. I have noticed a pattern with the painfully long premium channel credits, though. The more I like a show, the more likely I am to fast forward through the opening credit sequence and not waste time getting to the next episode. I never watched the credits with Dexter, I watched them about half the time with Dead Like Me, and I always seem to watch them with Rome because I can't be bothered to fast forward.
I also started watching Fawlty Towers, and unfortunately, I am not terribly impressed. I can't help thinking it's just not as funny as it thinks it is. Maybe because it's old and all the jokes seem cliche now? I'm up to episode 4, and I'm already impatient - it feels like an obligation to finish it up before moving on to the next show (Lost - which, actually, I'm not really looking forward to, either), so I'm thinking of skipping around a bit.
While they were here, we finally (FINALLY) went to the Verizon store to get new phones. My parents have been complaining about their phones not holding a charge forever, and I couldn't get a new phone on my own because I'm on a family plan, which means my dad had to be there to sign the contract. Anyway, I ended up with an LG en-V Touch. I don't really know how it works yet. I almost got a Droid, but I didn't want to pay for the more expensive data plan.
I think I am losing stamina in my TV-watching project. It is quite a lot of work, but my Netflix queue is hovering at a perilous 499 and I feel almost obligated to clear it out a bit. I'm almost finished with Rome, though I don't think I'll have much to say about it that I haven't said about it already. I have noticed a pattern with the painfully long premium channel credits, though. The more I like a show, the more likely I am to fast forward through the opening credit sequence and not waste time getting to the next episode. I never watched the credits with Dexter, I watched them about half the time with Dead Like Me, and I always seem to watch them with Rome because I can't be bothered to fast forward.
I also started watching Fawlty Towers, and unfortunately, I am not terribly impressed. I can't help thinking it's just not as funny as it thinks it is. Maybe because it's old and all the jokes seem cliche now? I'm up to episode 4, and I'm already impatient - it feels like an obligation to finish it up before moving on to the next show (Lost - which, actually, I'm not really looking forward to, either), so I'm thinking of skipping around a bit.
