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”.

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.