What Is Real?

Last few months in a nutshell

This is my last few months in a nutshell. I hope I can start bogging a bit more in the months to come.

New purchases:
I now have the Blockbuster Movie Pass. This is where you pay $15 per month and you can rent as many movies as you want, but you can only have one out at a time. When I want to rent a movie I just trade in the last movie I rented. Since I only live across the street from Blockbuster this comes in very handy.

I also recently added a digital recorder to my cable TV package for $10 a month. This will pause live TV, digitally recorded any show while I am not there, or record a show while I am watching another one. This will come in handy when 4400 comes on this June. Since I don’t want much TV on Saturday night (busy taking the wife out to a nice tame dinner at Chili’s or something) I can tell my cable box to record ever time that show is on, then I can watch it at my leisure.

Hobbies:
Web design
I have not been doing much webdesign lately. I have however updated the look of this webblog a bit. It is still really bear (overly simplistic), but it is much better than the plain white default template that has been up for so long. Hopefully I will soon be able to redesign this site the way I really want it to look (I will probably be working on it in small bits here and there progressively). I have been slacking in my duties at phpBB (styles team member) because I have come across a conglomerate of personal issues that has taken most my time and energy. What free time I do have has been spent watching movies/TV (see above) and trying to learn Spanish (see below). I do not know how much longer I will last at phpBB before I have to quite the team.

Learning Spanish
My quest to learn Spanish is not going too well. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment. Issue 1) I really have no reason to learn Spanish other than, “it sounds neat” so my motivation is slipping, and issue 2) I have no one who knows Spanish I can practice with or talk to. I would at least like to have someone who can correct me or answer my questions. BTW if anyone from Chattanooga knows any good Spanish radio stations please let me know.