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Thursday Thoughts

I'm finally coming out of whatever the hell I had. Only took 3 weeks, but whatever. Sounds like I'm gonna need surgery to fix my sinuses/ear..the whole 'head circuit' thing. Good times. Let's play catch up, shall we?

1. Got a chance to visit the Salem MA Maritime Museum and Park yesterday, run by the National Parks Service. Definitely a hidden gem, and beautiful weather to go along with it!

2. Picked up a new Onkyo AV receiver (the 705). This my friends is the receiver I've been waiting for...it has 3 HDMI in, and passes through audio so no longer do I need optical cables and I can change my audio on my PS3 to uncompressed! What's even better is that it takes every signal going in -- even crappy RCA, upconverts it and outputs it through HDMI. No more input switching on the TV. I'm very happy.

3. I had to buy a new lamp for my Samsung Kirk model DLP tv. It's been 4 years, so it's about due. The old lamp is still working but it takes a long time to warm up. At least I'm hoping that it means I need a new lamp .

4. I haven't been playing many games this week due to my lovely sinsuses and addiction to sudafed making me sleepy (non-drowsy my ass), but I did want to mention there's a Guitar Hero III Def Leppard pack that was relesaed today. And those if you who bought Okami who want a little less IGN on your cover can click here and request a new cover of your choosing.

5. New Gametap games are crap. It's really getting depressing. Three billion 2600 games and they can't get one of them?

6. Make sure you check out this week's How I Met Your Mother with the Robin Sparkles video "Sand Castles in The Sand"...a nice 80s satire!

7. I had to get a Tetanus booster on Tuesday...damn it really hurts today. WTF?

8. Anyone watching American Idol? At first I thought show tunes would suck but I thought that Andrew Lloyd Webber did a nice job mentoring. Not sad to see Tattoo You go. Then again, for a season that had the 'most talented 24 ever,' I think I've cared the least about this group. Brooke is very cute and brings sunshine to everyone. I can see her doing covers of 10,000 Maniacs songs in a flowing dress spinning around. Either that or doing a commercial on a spring day for that not-so-fresh feeling. Syesha has her moments. David Cook is probably the most talented but he probably won't win, since he is. LOL.  Neil Diamond next week. I'm still waiting for Morrissey week -- I think the whole group singing "There is A Light That Never Goes Out" will be awesome...or I Don't Mind If You Forget Me...

I need to get in the shower.