Been "one of those" times for a few weeks now.

I guess everything is catching up with me. Cancer, drugs, lack of physical activity and on and on. Just walking to the mailbox and back requires a twenty minute "rest."

sheesh...

But, I do get some gaming in. I have a nice, comfortable high back chair I can kick back in and enjoy losing. Yeah, I am so good at losing. But, I persevere and will eventually make it to another checkpoint. Checkpoints...

Don't ya just hate the games that don't allow you to save ANYWHERE you want to instead of relying on the maker's checkpoints?

I do... But, what can ya do? If you spent the jingle (some cases, a lot, if it's a new game) ya gotta play the game.

Gotta love GameStop and their used games.

Right now, it's Easter morning. For those of you that Believe, take some time to reflect just what Easter means. Pretty amazing stuff...

Other than that, it is cool and rain is somewhere on the horizon and a low pressure front. For me, that means pain. All the bones I broke (last count, 27 of them) are speaking to me. Loudly... And the cancer that is causing more problems ain't helping either.

I hate to discuss the relative merits of today's pharmaceuticals, but I just love my Percocets and Oxycontins. Without them, I am thinking I would be bed-ridden.

As it is, I do spend an enormous amount of time sitting around and drooling. And, of course, doing a bit of button mashing. When it's too bad, I have and incredibly large selection of DVD's to peruse and watch.

Nothing like watching "Arnold" blowing up something on that 55" Hitachi Plasma. Or Bruce trying to "Die Hard."

Yeah, lots of action/adventure movies in our collection. Got some "chick flicks" for the Old Lady, but I try and stay away from them when it's just me. ew...

I read on Game Informer's site a while ago that the PS3 is due for a Firmware update. One new feature that will be added is the "Remember" feature. As it is, if you watch a movie, stop in the middle, go do something else and then come back to the movie you have to FF to where you were at in the movie. This new Remember feature will remember where you were in the movie, even if you remove the disk.

Yeah, cool! And, yeah, finally!

I bought the PS3 because of it's Blu-Ray capabilities. I didn't think I would use it for a gaming console, but I'm glad I bought it. There are some cool games on the PS3.

As far as deciding to buy the PS3 for the Blu-Ray feature it was because it was the ONLY one I could find that was updateable through the Internet. All of the rest of the stand alone players were capable of updating their Firmware, but, the company(s) would have to send you a disk and you would update the Firmware that way. To make sure you got a future update, you would have to send the disk back.

No, not for me. The "old" Blu-Ray (BR, from now on) players are on the way out. The second gen BR players are starting to appear in the marketplace. Those players are outrageously expensive. Just another reason to buy the PS3.

The Old Lady was sure that I was just buying this to have another game console. I had to lead her by the hand (after HD-DVD went poof) to some stores and a lot of online information fed to her to convince her that this is the best way to go.

Yeah, as usual, I put my money on the wrong horse. I bought the "BetaMax" players when they first came out. Remember those? Nothing like plunking down $1500.00 for something that soon became obsolete.

I did the same with the HD stuff. Of course not quite as expensive as the BetaMax fiasco, but still, pretty respectable. My luck hits once again.

Once Toshiba decided they were not going to go the HD route I went looking for HD players. I found a nice Toshiba (with five disk capacity) that was almost $400.00 marked down to $70.00. So, we now have an extra one sitting in the closet just in case the original one quits, as consumer electronics are commonly known to do.

I'd just sell the 16 HD movies we have, but we would never get the money we paid for them and we would just have to buy them again on BR. So, we'll keep them and the player.

But, this BR thing is amazing. The clarity is unreal. My next BR disk purchase will be that BBC documentary "Blue Planet," Or I think that's the name. It was an incredible experience to watch it via DirecTV (standard signal, we haven't upgraded our box to HD yet) so the BR disk set should be all that much more so.

Is there anyone out there that remembers "The Trials of Life?" Narrated by David Attenboro. That was maybe fifteen or so years ago. I cannot find it.

Anywhere... No where... At all...

I want that. I check Amazon just about every time I visit the place. No hits yet.

Sometimes, when I talk about it, I can find no one who remembers it. Was I the only person to watch it? It was, I think, in the neighborhood of twenty hours. An hour a week on the Discovery channel (once again, I think it was the Discovery channel.) Ever notice I do a lot of "thinking?" It hurts to do so much thinking. I get a headache...

hehe

OK, what else? I know there is more, simply because it has been so long since I made a Blog post, but I seemed to break my "thinker."

If I can remember more later I may edit this one or if a day or two has gone by, then it will be a new post.

Hey, Happy Easter! And to all, good gaming to you and yours.

Dale

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