I know it’s been a long time since I have been wanting a new TV.  You know one of those awesome, nice, bright, hdtv’s.  Well two weeks ago I finally got one.  I did some side jobs to earn the  $$ for it and my wife agreed that it was a good idea to upgrade.  I was finally happy to get rid of that HUGEboat anchor that we use to watch.  Although we have thought about it, we did not mount this to the wall.  I think might in the future but for now, it’s happily sitting on top of a new tv stand/entertainment system.

I actually wish we would have searched for some mounts prior to this and skipped the whole step of waiting to determine what we wanted and that way we could have just mounted it. Either way right now I’m happy and have a great picture. Now to convince someone to get me a surround sound system and a Blu-ray player for the upcoming holidays…

So I decided to drop some cash Friday and buy the new iPhone.  This is my first time owning one and so far I’m pretty impressed.  Although I knew it would outshine my POS Windows Tilt phone.  So I went with a 32gb iPhone 3G s..

Today I decided to check out the video function on the phone and I like it..

Here is a clip I took and uploaded to you tube right from the phone:

This is Mazzie our Rat Terrier..

I still have a lot to learn about the phone but I think it was the best phone buying decision ever..!!
Well minus the part of telling everyone on the planet your new number!

I think I need some Mp3 players. I used to have one in my old Kia when I lived up in Seattle. It was so nice. I could just burn a CD of my favorite all time best songs in mp3 format and I could listen to it for hours. It was also nice to not have to switch back and forth between cd’s in my single cd player.

So what I would like to do is add one to my current car. Yes I know I have 6 CD changer but could you image the amount of songs if you had a 6 CD mp3 player..  Oh yeah!!!

That would just make my day.  I guess I will have to price some out and save some money.

I have been trying wanting to turn this extra room (retreat) that we have off of our master bedroom into a semi home theater.  The other day at a local furniture store we saw some cool chairs that would fit perfectly in the space we have.  So doing some online searching I came across Berkline home theater furniture.  Wow these are SO cool.  You should take a look at them.

After searching their site some more, their prices seem to be pretty reasonable as well.  However, our receiver for our surround sound on our main TV just went out so I guess that will be the first thing to start working on.  It’s truly a bummer let me tell you after watching movies with enhanced sound and now going back to the original TV sound speakers.

Hopefully I can find a good deal on one.

Yep you heard that one right.  I need to go shopping and I really despise it.  Especially malls. Although they have tons of shops to choose from.  For example, shoe stores, jewelry, music, clothes, sexy lingerie, clocks, books, or movie theater etc. etc.  So you can pretty much find anything you looking for.  However, the crowds always seem to be BIG and BOLD.  Of course near a holiday there are more people.  I just don’t ever think you can avoid that.

Back to the subject.  I really need to go out and buy some dress clothes.  A couple shirts and maybe a couple pair of pants, socks and maybe some comfy dress shoes.  I guess I should do this to look more professional at work.  Plus (I cannot believe I’m going to say this) but I’m kind of tired of wearing jeans all the time.  Speaking of jeans, I need a new pair of those to.  Oh and some new sandals before summer gets here.  Well I guess time will tell if I actually get out and make it a store.

I was watching this video on YouTube about buy.com.  It featured Howie Mandel and his son.  I think overall the video was pretty good, except to be honest I felt like it could have better.  If you watch it, he ends up talking to his son through glass, so they put up subtitles that you have to read.  I understand the concept they are trying to show, but come on.  Poor Howie..  His son bought something on his credit card.

It was pretty funny but I still just am not sure.  However the Sales that they have online are pretty good and worth checking out.

I sure am.  Although I have a busy schedule, it will take my mind off of the 40 + hours I spend doing my work.

I think tonight I will play some Wii (which I did *fifa 09*) .  I got a new game recently and haven’t had a chance to play it yet.  Tomorrow morning I will wake up and I might actually head to the gym.  That way I can avoid weight loss products. Then I’m off to another soccer game.  Hopefully we will do good tomorrow.  After that, I’m off and running to a friend’s to learn some Adobe Illustrator and I’m going to teach him some web skills.  Then a small break before heading off to dinner and then to the Chris Tomlin concert.

And that is just Saturday.  Wow..  Of course I hope to get some rest in there somewhere.  Sunday just has two things on the agenda outside of the house and about 3-4 things in or around the house that need some attention.

Oh and I’m sure I will need to remote into work and do some of that too so my Monday won’t be that crazy..

What are your plans?

OK so check this out.  A couple months ago I found this website for a sci-fi audio book which is pretty awesome I must say.  It’s called ‘The Leviathan Chronicles’  Very well done and a work in progress.  In fact right now he is only up to chapter 16 and 17 should be dropped any day.  I do recommend you checking it out.

While listening to this audio book, he made a reference (at least I’m pretty sure) to this author J.C. Hutchins and his audio book (podcast, etc.) called the ‘7th Son Trilogy‘.  I listened to a snippet of it and wasn’t really sure what to think as I’m not or least have not been a huge sci-fi fan.  But let me tell you this.  This was one of the best , I repeat best, sci-fi I have ever listened to.  I just finished up with book 3: Destruction and wow this was just awesome! awesome! awesome!
In fact so good, when it come out in print I’m going to buy a copy and send it to my dad cause I know he will enjoy it as well.

Go check it out and take a listen, you will not be disappointed.

http://www.7thsonnovel.com/

Author site: http://jchutchins.net/

Mine was ok.

I can’t really complain about it right?  Although I didn’t have a whole lot on my list to accomplish this weekend, it sure seemed that I was always doing something or occupied.

It started Saturday with the dog waking me up way too early.  7:30am is a time I like to sleep past on Saturday.  And of course once I got up she went back to bed, lol.  Then I came into work about 11am.  We had a bunch of things on the list to accomplish:

• New phone system cut over.
• Upgrade our Quickbooks Software to Enterprise 9.
• Update our Active Directory Servers.
• Update the firmware on our Exchange server.

There were a few other things but I won’t bore you with them.  Finally got out of work about 5pm due to a last minute emergency and proceeded home.  Sunday morning we got up and went to an awesome church service and then met up with some friends for lunch and a couple hours of Wii time.  I left them to pick up my little brother and we went and saw Valkyrie.  Movie was simply Awesome! After the movies I dropped him off and headed home to relax and prepare for the upcoming week.

Did you do anything special this weekend?

I cannot believe it’s already the 17th.  This month feels like it has just flown by.  In fact it’s been so busy I haven’t posted anything in a long time.

Soccer started back up for 2 weeks now, and that takes up a couple of my free nights after work.  Trying to get the girls ready for spring league games which start in mid February.  Speaking of work, that has been busy too.  We usually are pretty swamped in January right after the holidays.  The IT Dept (my boss and I) came up with our 2009 goal list and there are some things we might not accomplish, but I hope we can complete all of them.  Here are a few items from that list which I also have to learn and research prior to completing.

• Moving from Exchange 2003 to 2007 (on a virtualization system)
• Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory)
• Put in new phone system (ah that is what I’m doing later today) – Check..
• Hire a web/print developer
• And various other goals and small projects.

I have put in a lot of Facebook time looking up people and using it more.  I haven’t played the Wii too much this last week but a whole lot up to last week.  I guess I need to jump on that today and get some time in =).  Tomorrow I will be taking my little brother (I’m a big brother for North Texas Big Brother, Big Sisters) to the movies it should be fun.   I have also been using up my commute time to listen to some cool books lately.  This one is called “The 7th Son” it’s by JC Hutchins.  I I just finished book 2 and starting book 3 today.  What an awesome story so far.  I highly recommend it.  Oh and it’s free to download.  And last but not least we got our final approval for our adoption/foster license.

The rest of January is uncertain except a few things.  Of course more soccer, might goto the sci-fi/comic con in Dallas next weekend and more work and soccer, lol.

Has your January been busy so far?