Well, now that my bills are paid off, and I’ve successfully paid for school, I bought a DVD player/recorder with money I had saved up but wasn’t sure if I would be able to use. But this is no ordinary DVD player! It’s a DVD-VCR Combo! Not that I have any tapes, but my better fraction most certainly does! Oodles of tapes! But it’s no ordinary DVD-VCR Combo. It’s a DVD-Recorder VCR Combo! Not only that, but I can add more bold tags and say it’s a DVD-VCR Combo with built-in Digital Tuner! This will let me do three things:

1. Watch DVDs
2. Convert VHS tapes into DVDs for later viewing
3. Lament that I’m broke for the next few weeks

I know I’m a few years behind the curve, but truth be told, as much as I love consumer electronics, I’ve settled into a nice boring lifestyle where I’m happy with what I have. My love of that new-electronics smell has been superceded by my love of eating food with a higher nutritional content than Ramen. Well, not love per se, but at least happy indifference. I’m sure that once (if?) I graduate college and have enough disposable income to better boost the National GDP, I’ll live in a squalidly tiny apartment with enough electronics that I could probably acquire a Radio Shack franchise operation off of what’s in my living room.

So far, I’ve spent about as much time configuring my website as I have writing posts to go on it. Probably more, in fact. This is par for the course for me, I spend so much time making a backend that I can use quickly an efficiently that, in the end, I’ve spent more time that I would have to begin with. I prefer to think off it as being robust, rather than being a needy perfectionist who’s never happy with anything, ever. But I’m trying to change that.

In another bit of trivia that no one cares about, I’m debating going through with changing my life in a way that’s uniquely my own. By which, of course, I mean following a manual. I highly recommend purchasing one of these books; even if you don’t follow the instructions, it’s a great read.

And it looks like my personal goal of not yammering on about unrelated topics in a single blog post lasted precisely six posts. Hurrah!