11:43 AM Monday, <May 22>, <2006>
Friday night checked out the new MacBook at the Apple Store on North Michigan Avenue. Not a bad machine, but a little too wide for my taste. At least, that's what I'm telling myself right now. The keyboard isn't bad, but I feel like there's too much casing around the screen. But I want to keep checking it out and I might be leaning toward getting one and replacing all my machines. Well, most of my machines anyway. Not sure yet. Still contemplating that. Also Friday night I went out to Bryan's new place to play some Settles of Catan for the first time. Interesting game, but not really enough to hold my interest for very long. Saturday tried to bring some old broken and useless electronic stuff out for recycling, except I didn't look it up before I left, so I didn't know where to go. Go figure, it was the same exact place it was last year, just off Division east of the Expressway. Whoops. So I've got a backseat full of junk waiting for the next time I can drop it off at a hazardous recycling center. Then Tracy came over and we tried to start watching TV off the DVR until we found out we were missing episodes, since the DVR decided to delete older episodes. Back when I replaced all the series records, they defaulted to Save until space is needed, and well, space was needed. So I tried to get the missing episodes off bittorrent. Mostly succeeded. But we did watch enough to make room for Stealth and Ong-bak. I guess this means I'll be recording more movies for myself. We just made dinner at home. But on Sunday we went out, saw The Da Vinci Code at River East and had dinner at Red Lobster because of a craving for crab legs and Shaw's Crab House didn't have an opening until 9:30pm. Movie was alright. Nothing too special. And the twists I already knew. The flashbackish scenes were pretty cool though. Headed out to Round Lake for a big screen showing of Boondock Saints with Russell tonight.