Another pleasant valley Sunday

Another pleasant valley Sunday

Current mood: strong

I’m trying to think what I have to say. It’s been weeks since I’ve checked in. Hrm. I practiced with Bleach Battalion last Thursday. It went pretty well. The songs sound good and we’ve got a lot of time before the shows, so they will get better and better. I have been practicing the new tunes and I’m thinking I’ll be pretty set to play the shows. So we have a show booked for June 12 and Off with their heads is playing that night. I’m gonna try to make it to the OWTH show after our show. I think we are playing early. Then I find out that The Arrivals are opening for OWTH. Total bummer. I gotta try to make it for that. On the bummer tip, I was driving home from practice on Thurs and I got a flat. Total barforama. I was way bummed and I didn’t want to have to pay for the new tire. Then I remembered that I got the “road handler” warranty. I went in to Sears and the guy says it’s gonna be $60 to replace the tire. This sounds like a good deal. Then just out of curiosity I ask, “Why is it so much? What’s the charge.” Then the guy does some figuring and says, “Oh well it’s only gonna be $30.” Bonus. So I got a new tire for $30 and that includes another road handler warranty on the new tire for 9 bux. Not bad. That worked out.

While I was getting my tire changed, I took a foray into the mall. First stop, Sears. I wasn’t real geeked about hitting Sears. When I was a kid, Sears was ok cuz they had a toy section. At some point they did away with the toys and now I look at sears as a great place to go if you want to pay more for something than it would be at most other places. Especially the electronics. I’m not cool with getting hosed, so I’m not cool with Sears. Anyway, I’m in Sears, so I start to look around. They had a 3D tv going with that Aliens Vs. Monsters movie. I put on the glasses and gave it a shot. It was actually pretty cool. It worked. It was def 3d. I would say it had more depth than stuff jumped out at you, but stuff def jumped out too. I just couldn’t see using glasses to watch TV. That’s lame. Although it might be cool if they showed Sports in 3D. If they could do that, it might make the technology take off. I’m thinking Football might be especially cool in 3D. As of right now, I don’t think it’s necessary to have a 3D TV, although it is a nice toy. Video games in 3D would be nuts too, I’m sure that’s coming. They gotta do that. The kids will have to have it, and as we all know, if the kids have to have it, they usually get it.

After the novelty of the 3d tv wore off, I moved on to other stores. I’m always glad to walk out of Sears cuz I know better things are ahead. I had time to kill and I needed to hit a store where I could do that. I also needed to charge my Iphone. Sharper Image. Perfect spot. I walk into SI and go right up to an iphone boombox and hook my Iphone up to start charging. I start walking around and all the sudden music off of my iphone starts rocking through the store. I’m like…total score. I get to charge my iphone, shop, and enjoy my music instead of the crap they were spitting out, which was foreigner I think (well foreigner’s not bad, but they were playing Jazz or some other junk mixed in.) While I was shopping I heard (from my ipod): Novacaine by Green Day, Getting old/losing touch by The Methadones, Sometimes by Perfect, and some other stuff. It was pretty kick ass. I’m not sure if the other patrons appreciated it, but I did. When I rolled out of there I had an awesome shopping experience and ¾ charge on my phone. There are always a lot of cool items at Shaper Image, but the coolest thing I saw was a pair of glasses that basically were a TV. You put them on and it was like watching a 50 inch TV or something. They worked pretty good, but when you take them off you have to adjust your focus and I’m thinking too much of that is not good for you. Like in the Jerk when everyone’s eyes got crossed, I’m thinking that might happen to you if you watch too much TV on the TV glasses. Cool item though. They also cost like 300 bucks. Not really worth it. Def one of those items that like 20 years ago or more you were like, “Dude, someday they are gonna have glasses that you put them on and you can watch TV.” Well that day has arrived my friends.

My final stop before getting my car was the Apple store. The place was packed. Apple is such a scam. You gotta love how they cornered the market in digital music. It still baffles my mind how they pulled that off. Then they did quite a number on the cellphone industry. Now they’ve got the ipad. I’m just not sure about this contraption. I checked it out. I was playing this game where you try to get the marble through the labyrinth. It was pretty stupid. Then I tried to play a racing game that didn’t work. I tried to use the keyboard which was an absolute waste of time. Trying to touchtype on the ipad is useless. It’s a mess. I type well and I couldn’t even type one word. You can’t rest your fingers on the keys, so You have no idea if you are even close to the home keys with your fingers hovering over the keyboard. It’s an exercise in futility. Typing texts on iphone is annoying, but on the Ipad, it’s just simply useless. I’m guessing the Ipad is trying to be a kindle on steroids. It was not light. I have to say it was prolly a pound. I’m guessing the kindle weighs like a quarter pound at most. I didn’t try to surf the net with it. I just got annoyed with it and bailed. It seemed like a giant Itouch/Iphone. If you have an Iphone, I don’t think you need an Ipad. Maybe other people have uses for them, I dunno. The people who worked in the store were carrying Ipads around like clipboards, I could see that. Maybe coaches and other clipboard holders (inventory people in a warehouse) will start using Ipads. That makes sense to me, it would allow them to track changes and write notes, juggle stuff around and surf porn. It all makes sense to me.

I know I had some other shopping adventures from Saturday, I just can’t remember what they were. One very strange thing over the weekend, A squirrel died right in front of my car. I was parked in the driveway, and there was a dead squirrel there. I didn’t run it over, it looked pretty normal, not flat, it was just dead. I’m thinking that maybe it fell out of a tree and broke its neck. Or it might have had a heart attack. Squirrels live a high stress life, they are always having to watch their nuts. So this morning was Garbage pickup, so I had to take a shovel and drop the squirrel in the can. I prolly should have said a few words, I mean words other than “oh geez, this is nasty. Oh my. I hope I don’t get rabies.” So yeah. The Squirrel is off to squirrel heaven and an unlimited supply of nuts. Lucky, Lucky, squirrel.