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Thursday, April 03, 2008

  • My new favorite site in all the world is Hulu. On Hulu, you can watch movies, tv shows, etc. for free! And it's completely legal and pretty good quality. The only thing is most of the videos have to pause for a little commercial break but it's only 15-30 seconds. That's how it's legal, they make deals with the companies and they allow it with 'limited commercial interruption'. It's pretty darn sweet, especially because they have old shows like Emergency (one of my personal favorites), Barney Miller, and Alias Smith and Jones. Some of the movies have a special thing where you can watch the movie without the commercials if you first watch a trailer. Sunday, I watched Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, with no commercials by first watching a trailer for Hell Boy 2. Actually, I shut off the sound, walked away for a couple minutes and by the time I came back, the trailer was over and I had only missed a bit of the opening credits.
    If you don't mind older, slightly campy shows with okay acting, I'd recommend Emergency. It's about two firefighter paramedics in the 70's. If you're an ER person, don't even bother watching Emergency. And don't get me started on ER. Then there's Barney Miller, about New York's 12th precinct's detectives also set in the 70's.
    All Hulu needs to do now, is make a deal with the food network and get Iron Chef America on there.
    Oh, and for you people who don't like old shows and prefer ER and CSI, there are modern shows on the site too. ER, Law and Order, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, to name a few. Now if you'll excuse me, I think Squad 51 just got another call....

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Saturday, March 08, 2008

  • Xanga Premium

    Because of the xanga surveys giving you 2,000 xanga credits every time you complete one, I realized that my Xanga  Premium-Life dream was much closer than I had previously thought. In order to buy Xanga Premium-Life with xanga credits, you need 100,000 xanga credits. Okay, I thought, only 50 surveys, a survey a day, 50 days, less than two months. Score. I can do this.........No, I can't. Apparently, I'm 'not qualified' to take most of the surveys. I've only taken two so far. And they keep telling me that they don't have any surveys for me and that I must check back later. Grr. I think it's something xanga's doing to keep everyone from buying Xanga Premium-Life with credits like it's goin' outta style.

    Well, I'm off to clean my room or play Guitar Hero until mom makes me clean my room.
    Currently Gaming
    Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
    By Activision
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Friday, March 07, 2008

  • I really should be getting ready to leave for PI in a half hour but instead I'm sitting here in my pjs writing this and listening to Frank Sinatra. Oh, and singing along too.

    I just wanted to post because Abbie posted about a cute little kid in Heaths that reminded me of this adorable little boy that went through my line with his parents about a month ago. He came up and put his hands on the counter and rested his nose on the top.
    "Hi," he said very shyly.
    "Hello." I smiled, I love little kids.
    Suddenly he said, "You're sexy!" His mother turned bright red and proceeded to explain that you can't call ladies 'sexy', you call them beautiful.
    Perfectly willing to correct his mistake, the little boy turned back to the counter. "You're beautiful, sexy lady!"
    Needless to say, his mother just about dragged him out of the store and his father finished the transaction.

    Please pray for me. Last August, one of my glands swelled list crazy until it was very very painful and I ended up in the ER. Turns out I had an infection in a salivary gland. The doctor put me on antibiotics, gave me morphine in the hospital, and a prescription for Vicodin because it was that painful. Well, a couple weeks ago, it came back but I recognized the symptoms and we went to my usual doctor before it got too bad. He gave me antibiotics which worked until the day before I ran out of pills. That morning I woke up and it was swollen again. Mom called my regular doctor but he was on vacation, but the nurses were a little worried so they called the Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor that I saw on a follow-up after the hospital. He gave me the same antibiotics that other doctor did just a different dosage, he also took a culture, just in case. Wednesday, (the second round of antibiotics ran out Wed) his office called and said that the culture came back positive for some sort of staph that usually doesn't show up in the oral cavity. So he gave me a third round of antibiotics. Needless to say, it's still a little swollen and painful and my jaw is quite stiff. Please pray that this round of antibiotics will work and that I'll be able to eat.
    Currently Listening
    Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
    By Frank Sinatra
    New York New York
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

  • New Layout

    The old theme I had was getting a little well, old. So I poked around the xanga theme site (Which is rather obnoxious, btw. Because the themes aren't categorized, you have to refresh the page to see another random 8 or 10 themes, and you often get duplicates.) and found this one. I had to do a fair amount of fiddling, including getting a different theme for a bit, to figure out how to get the custom module in the footer. I had had two Josh Turner music videos there but I'd gotten rather bored with them. I wanted to keep music on there but a playlist was more to my taste. Hence the seeqpod playlist. I will probably add more music later but right now it has three Frank Sinatra songs and three Michael Buble songs.

    I know we're really only into our second real week of practice but I'm having some trouble with my character. Sir Toby is just about the only character I can't figure out. He's a drunk! How hard can he be? You say. Yes, he's a drunk but he's a dignified drunk. An oximoron, I know, but it's true. I guess part of the reason I'm having trouble is I thought I'd had him figured out then yesterday Jan goes and says just about everything I thought was wrong. Toby is a much more complex character. Toby is the ring leader but he needs Maria to, to...I'm not exactly sure why he needs Maria, he just does. It's also difficult to adjust to the role. Toby was not the role I wanted or expected at all. I don't begrudge the girl who got the part I wanted, set my heart on and was expected to get. She seriously deserved it. She's an amazingly talented actress and I'm happy for her but Toby was not on my list of possible roles.
    No advice, please. I would like to figure Toby out myself. As difficult as it might be.