I’m not sure if it’s the time change, colder weather, or the impending holidays, but I haven’t much felt like blogging lately. Here’s what I’ve been thinking about instead.

  1. Website worries - My domain expires in under a week. My hosting also expires around that time (after 3 years of free hosting, it’s tricky to get an exact date out of 1and1). I don’t wish to continue either of them, but my brain just isn’t working this month making decision making difficult. I fear I’ve left it too long to make a proper change in time, but I’ve set up a new blog at wordpress.com for now. Please change your bookmarks.
  2. Pining for DSL an/or a TiVo - Bellsouth is currently advertising a deal where you get a free TiVo when you order DSL. That would be great if TiVo itself wasn’t already offering free TiVo boxes (plus, I really want a dual tuner :)). Still, I’ve just noticed that DSL Lite is now only $24.95 a month with no bundled purchases required to get that price. True, the speeds are more like ISDN than true DSL, but at that price it would be ridculous not to upgrade from dial-up. And ‘real’ DSL is only $8 more than that, quite a bargain as well!
  3. Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - a British comedy pair that I’ve gone absolutely potty for. Vic Reeves Big Night Out has not left my DVD player in the past month. In that time I’ve watched at least one episode (usually more like 3 or 4) per day. They only made 14 episodes total so you do the math. ;) I can recite these suckers in my sleep, and yet I can’t stop watching. But relief is coming -despite my guilt over purchasing a ‘me’ item in the height of my Christmas shopping season, I gave in and ordered The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer yesterday. I also just won a Fast Show DVD on eBay, so I’ll soon have some new sketch comedy DVDs to ruin my mind with. :p
  4. Christmas Shopping - Pretty much done, thank goodness. Still have more than a few knitted prezzies to go, though.
  5. Black Friday ads - Most of the major one are already up at BFads and GottaDeal.com, but they look pretty lackluster. The best thing I’ve seen is $15 X-Files DVD sets at Meijer.
  6. DeepDiscountDVD’s semi-annual sale - It’s going on now, but I’m not interested this year - especially in view of how DDDVD hiked up box set prices just before the sale went live.