Weak Week

Things couldn’t be moving slower……………………. Okay I suppose it COULD be slower, but as slow weeks go, this one is pretty slow. Today marks the fourth day in a row that Jen is working a long shift. It hardly feels like she is even here anymore. I have to say that while it’s good to get some extra hours and therefore extra money, it sucks that she has to be gone so much.

I got accepted into school officially and I am going to tie up all the loose ends today after I take Kayla down to the bus stop.

I can say that since we got the entire Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and ALF series’s on DVD, I haven’t watched any real TV or news in quite some time. What I know about everything I have learned from the webernet.

I guess the biggest news this week is that the Tiger’s spring training season has finally started! They crushed some local area Florida College team 17-4 in an exhibition and they beat the Mets 4-2 in their first actual spring training game.

He Eats Cats!

I’ve had a really good weekend. I tried to push away the stress I’m starting to feel in relation to the Epic show. Friday we went out with my parents. We went to the Texan for dinner, it was okay. Jen picked up some stuff at Meijer afterwards, we also picked up a semi-decent digital camera.

I ordered the the complete Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Enterprise series. Two down, two more to go~! I also finished signing up for school and my financial aid. I’m going for an associates degree in business, and a bachelors in information technology with a specialty in media and visual communications. All in all it will take me three years, hopefully it will be worth it.

Yesterday Jen and I went to see Vantage Point at the Bay City mall.

It didn’t get a lot of critical acclaim but I thought it was a fun popcorn flick. Just something to sit back, watch ,and have fun watching. I will say this however. WORST PREVIEWS EVER! Man! Aside from the traile for the Chronicles Of Narnia (which I had already seen on the net) there wasn’t a single decent preview.

Well after that we went an picked up some movies. Jen saw that they had ALF on DVD. I loved ALF growing up, it was a favorite of mine and I couldn’t help but pick it up. We grabbed three of the four seasons and watching the first part of season one brought back a lot of memories, and the greatest thing of all is how well the show still stands up, it still has a lot of bits that are really, really funny.

HD DVD 2006-2008

In a statement released Tuesday, Toshiba announced it had completed a “thorough review of its overall strategy” and concluded the company “will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” Atsutoshi Nishida, Toshiba’s president and CEO, was quoted as saying:

“We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called ‘next-generation format war’ and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop. While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high-definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality.”

According to the statement, Toshiba is “aiming for cessation” of its HD DVD manufacturing and shipping by the end of next month, but will “continue…to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.”

And wouldn’t you know it, before the day was out, Universal pulled its own plug on the format, releasing a statement indicating its support for Blu-ray:

“While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray. The path for widespread adoption of the next-generation platform has finally become clear. Universal will continue its aggressive efforts to broaden awareness for high-def’s unparalleled offerings in interactivity and connectivity, at an increasingly affordable price. The emergence of a single, high-definition format is cause for consumers, as well as the entire entertainment industry, to celebrate.”

You hear that, consumers? This is a time for celebration. Why are you crying, HD DVD owners? You have unparalleled offerings in interactivity and connectivity at an increasingly affordable price to look forward to!

Lost Something

It’s so hard to just put out here knowing anyone I might actually know will read it. All I can say is that I’ve lost something. It’s something I thought I had for the first time in my life, and I don’t think I have it anymore.

Just stopped caring I think.

Writers Strike Is History!

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Striking Hollywood writers are going back to work.

Writers Guild members picket Friday. The guild Sunday decided to have members vote on ending the strike.

The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill.

Writers will be back on the job Wednesday after voting in Beverly Hills and New York.

“At the end of the day, everybody won,” Leslie Moonves, chief executive officer of CBS Corp., told The Associated Press.

“It was a fair deal and one that the companies can live with, and it recognizes the large contribution that writers have made to the industry.”

Moonves was among the media executives who helped broker a deal after talks between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios, collapsed in acrimony in December.

Residuals for TV shows and movies distributed online was the most contentious issue in the bitter dispute involving the 12,000-member union and the world’s largest media companies and other producers.

Under a tentative contract approved Sunday by the union’s board of directors, writers would get a maximum flat fee of about $1,200 for streamed programs in the deal’s first two years and then get 2 percent of a distributor’s gross in year three.

“These advances now give us a foothold in the digital age,” said Patric Verrone, president of the West Coast guild. “Rather than being shut out of the future of content creation and delivery, writers will lead the way as television migrates to the Internet.”  

Fun Times At Taxmont High!

So we got our tax refund. It was a fair bit more then we got last year which was nice. We promptly paid off the people we owed money to, then promptly put some into the savings account.

One of the first things we picked up was a new pair of iPod’s. The TOUCH~!

Never have I loved a device so much. I can check out the EPIC web site on it for goodness sake! Let’s not forget how fast and sleek it is. It’s is in fact the greatest of all MP3 players.We also had to pick up a new DVD player, and some new swag…… Jen thought it would be cool to buy the entire series on Seinfeld on DVD.

It’s been the greatest chore of my life to watch episode after episode of Seinfeld every night. Really it’s been tough……………..:)