Blogger discovered in wreckage of own procrastination: Forced to resume posting

So, it may have come to your collective attention that I am lazy. Good for you, here's a prize. Now then, on with the events of my life.

I've been spending a lot of time burning my way through the House archives lately, thanks to Greg, who owns all four seasons. Now on to the first season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and then leisurely through the Lost archives. Once again, thank you ABC for putting all four seasons of Lost on the Net. Also in television, the Heroes premiere was nothing short of epic, and has completely banished all of my fears of the show descending into mediocrity after the rather lame second season. The Knight Rider series premiere, unfortunately, presented itself horribly, riddled with worn-out cliches and badly written dialogue. The only thing it had going for it was the incredible animation for KITT, but that was hardly enough to save it.

Enough about TV, let's move onto . . . TV! More specifically, lets move from broadcasting to hardware. A few weeks back, Chris picked up an open-box 26" LCD HDTV, discounted from $500 to $426 due to its open-box status. We soon found out the reason it was originally returned; the DVD player was completely out of whack, rejecting half the DVD's we put in with "cannot read" errors, and only playing half way through many of the DVD's it did accept. We both found this incredibly annoying, so this past Saturday we took it back and explained the problem, and Chris picked up a shiny new 32" LCD HDTV. Yeah. That's right. We now have the biggest TV in the hall. Unfortunately, our cable still sucks.

In other recent (and not-so-recent) events, I attended the Newman Community Dreams & Visions retreat on 19-20 September, which was great. I met a lot of people, made a lot of friends, and had a lot of fun. A few of us who met on the retreat have started going to brunch (or lunch, as the case may be) after the 10AM Mass. Also on the topic of Mass, I lected for the first time today. (Yes, I use "lect" as the verbal form of "lector". Sue me.) Note to self: read the reading at least once before coming to Mass. Finally, John Beatty, Kevin . . . someone, and I have started having short circles hosted by Dr. Hughes, an Opus Dei numerary, before Mass.

Also, I'm doing an English project on railguns.

Alright, that should be enough to tide you over. You can thank Ashley for making me get off my butt and do this. (In a purely figurative sense, of course. I've been sitting the entire time I've been typing this.) You will hear from me by Thursday.

Can't stop the signal.

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SMike