I've installed Flock, the little Mozilla-based browser, which has finally gotten out of Beta. It's like Firefox, but has been configured to work easier with Web 2.0 elements - blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. In fact, I'm trying this out via Flock.
I've also signed up for Twitter. I note my b-i-l is also on Twitter, but the last update he made was 1 month ago :-) If you want to follow me via Twitter (or vice-versa), drop me a line.
Well, in a nutshell, not much, unless you enjoy Fox showcasing some rednecks.
Some networks have managed to put on a few new episodes of popular series ... The Simpsons, House, Family Guy, CSI, and so on. Of course, it's a better scene over on cable, with A Daily Show (yes, it's now not THE Daily Show) and the Colbert report soldiering on. Other favorite shows of mine like Monk, Stargate Atlantis have thus far been unaffected. And Battlestar Galactica Season 4 starts next month ... being the last season, it's sure to go out with a bang!
So instead, I've been paying a lot of attention to Netflix Instant Viewing. It's allowed me to reconnect to a lot of TV shows from my childhood - the cheesy ones, the funny ones, and two just totally awesome ones!
The last month or so has been pretty hectic over at Chez Axe. Several days after the Lady & I returned to US shores was spent pounding the pavements looking at apartments. For some weird reason, we couldn't find any 2-bedroom apartments in our price range ... well, that's not strictly true. We found a "2-bedroom" (i.e.: 1-1/2 bedroom) 2nd floor walkup in an really old brownstone). We had a lot of criteria, which I suppose contributed to the narrow range of apartments we had to work with.
Ultimately. we ended up taking a 1-bedroom apartment in the upper 90's, pretty close to the subway. A 19th-floor, south-facing apartment in a luxury building (totally swanky lobby, gym & swimming pool, and so on).
The weeks since signing the paperwork have been spent packing and throwing out a ton of stuff ... mostly old clothes that I don't wear much anymore (hopefully someone finds it purchase-worthy at the Salvation Army store), old notes & case studies from my MBA, and such like. I'm selling all my old JLA trade paperbacks, but refuse to give up my Hellboys, Sandmans, and such. I even bough a little binder and pouch set to store all the comic books I'm currently reading.
The discussion is slowly turning to what purchases we need to buy after moving in ... We've gotten a ton of gift cards and other presents for the new home (thanks, guys!) so we're slowly compiling a list ... coffee table, side tables, flatscreen TV, an espresso machine, a blender, and so on. I need to get a good NAS to combine the Lady's photos & music, and mine.
Of course there have been some items that have been approved that I've insisted upon.
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