Feb 05
I’ll Tell You What I Want What I Really Really Want (Part 2)
When you’re a budding entrepreneur, (even though at this point, I think I’m full-fledged), you often look ahead to nicer times…
Times when you’re not worrying about keeping your server dues paid, times when you’re not stressed about paying your designers, times when you’re not worried about getting new work…
It’s also these times when you look ahead to when you’ll have some disposable income to blow on the good stuff! Week before last I shared some of the things I’m most excited on incorporating back into my life from insurance to my gym membership, but today I’ll share with you some of the good stuff!
A PS3
If you’ve followed me for any period of time, you may be surprised to hear this but yeah – I’d like to get a PS3 (when I have disposable income that is). I really haven’t come around in my thinking on the system, (being as how there are still only a handful of PS3 exclusives I want to play), but the video game hoarder/enthusiast in me is willing to look past that. Plus, in addition to God of War III coming out soon, I’m hearing that PSN Home is looking a lot better than when I last saw it.
I bet Kratos could Winterize my house. Or burn it the ground. Either way I’d probably be warmer.
Winterizing My House
As I type this, I’m sitting in my basement looking at the news on my Windows 7 box hoping that getting the latest NVidea drivers will stop Windows Media Center from crashing. And let me tell you, as much as I love my basement, my fingers are freezing. The only reason the rest of me isn’t is because I’m wearing several layers, a hoodie and shoes. It sucks. Last year I tried to do something about this problem myself but it’s way beyond even MY industrious skills.
Amplifier for My Car
I’m not sure if it was around Christmas or my birthday this past year, but around that time I got my some Best Buy gift cards. (SIDE NOTE: If you ever want to make me happy, buy me some Best Buy gift cards). And interestingly enough, “right now” there isn’t too much at Best Buy that I want – Which is to say that I’m at a weird point with my electronics (home theater, computer, etc) where everything is pretty up to date, so the next step up would mean major dollars.
So I was thinking about what I would use my gift cards on, and then I thought that I always wanted to upgrade my car audio. Well after I got a new deck, I had to get new speakers and despite getting rave reviews, I was really underwhelmed with them. So I went onto Crutchfield and asked one of their fantastic advisors what the deal was and they said it’s probably because my speakers are underpowered and that I desperately needed an amp.
Alpine MRP-F300
I even picked one out at the time, but because I left my cushy 9-5 shortly thereafter, I had to put this little baby on the backburner where she sits to this very day. Truth be told, I COULD buy it using reward points from my credit card but we’ve had a pretty harsh winter so I don’t think I’d be in a rush to install it – Yes, that’s how I roll.
And if you think that’s a lot, think again! I still have more to write but I will not subject my fingers to the frozen tundra that is my basement any longer! Maybe another iteration next Friday?
February 6th, 2010 at 11:31 am
The house I grew up in (mostly grew up in) wasn’t winterized at all.
The house was well built, had been remodeled a few times over the years, so it wasn’t falling apart and was kind of modernized. But it didn’t have central heating and air, it just had a couple of large metal boxy looking gas heaters (one in the kitchen, one in the living room) and electric baseboard heaters in the bedrooms and (since it was completely built out of wood) a persistent draft. And as much as I loved that house . . . it was winterized about as well as a wet cardboard box. We had to close up rooms during the winter so we only heated the rooms we ‘needed’ to. And when the wind blew, you could feel the air move inside the house. Like feel it.
Now I live in a nice apartment, well a pretty nice one. The floors aren’t insulated, so they are always SOOOO cold . . . but other then that it’s very nice. I know the feeling of having to wear layers inside.
As for the PS3 . . . I owned mine for like two years before I played more then one game on it. And only in the past year have I played it on a regular basis (Uncharted 2, Dragon Age Origins, MGS). It is, however, my only Blu ray player . . . so it’s been very useful in that way. I kind of had to grow into it. Part of that may be more and more games being cross platform . . . part of it is I’m just getting use to it.
February 6th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
@Ian I’m glad you’re feelin’ me on the cold house. It sucks. Though the basement isn’t ridiculously cold todya. I think the 2 or 3 foot snow we had today has somehow insulated our basement! ha ha
And on the PS3 front, it WAS a much more attractive thing when I didn’t have a Blu-Ray player. Now that I have one it’s “meh”.