Alicia and I had a pretty good weekend. On Friday, Alicia and I went looking at new TVs to replace the Sony Wega which should have lasted for a lifetime but died for no reason (I'm not bitter :) ). So pretty much I won't be advertising the Sony product line for awhile.
Like any situation, you can't just replace what you had; but you have at least take a tiny-step forward. So we got the same size television, a 27", but we got one that is HDTV ready. We bought Samsung, instead of Sony this time. It has been great so far. We ended up buying it at Circuit City, instead of Best Buy because of the difference in prices of their service plans. Best Buy 4 year (which is additional to the 1 year manufacturer's) costs $250, Circuit City's is only $150. Doesn't take much to do the math on that one.
The sales guy at Best Buy really made a point that we needed a progressive-scan DVD player; which ours is not. However, we watched a couple of movies on it this weekend, and I'd have to admit that it looked pretty good. I don't know how much of a leap it would be to upgrade to a progressive-scan player (which you can actually get starting around $40 :)).
We got around to four movies this weekend (is that some sort of record? :)). We watched: Under the Tuscan Sun, League of Extrordinary Gentlemen, Lost in Translation, and in the theater -- 50 First Dates. Lost in Translation was a little bit slow .. never really seemed to get anywhere; although there were a few humorous spots. "League ..." was alright .. nothing too special here .. typical action film. "Under ..." was okay; Alicia liked it.
Fifty First Dates was pretty dang funny ... good date movie. I like Adam Sandler movies .. which are usually funny as you would expect :).
Well .. I guess that is all the excitement. Hope to see you all soon.
Jeff & Alicia
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