This has been a pretty eventful week. Two good things have happened, and one bad thing. The bad thing is that Peppi got put down. He was fourteen, so he lived a good little poodle life, but he was blind and stunned and crapped all over the place all the time. It’s a hard decision to make, especially since he still seemed to have good times every now and then, but it was for the best. I mostly feel bad for Joey, who loved Peppi more than anything (and vice versa). This has been a bad year for pets.
The first bit of good news is that the house has (finally) sold. The closing date is in mid-December, which means it’ll be a mad scramble to get everything packed up. It’ll be sad to pack the place up, since it means packing up all the memories contained in it, but it will really be a relief to have it be finished. Unfortunately, it means that (a) I’ll no longer have a place to do laundry and (b) I’ll finally have to update my address in various places and (c) I’ll have to find a new home for shinyplasticbag.com.
The second bit of good news is that I’ve finally purchased a TV. After living with the freebie TV I got from Steve back in August, it’s a pretty big step up: a 32″ Samsung LCD HDTV, with a metric heap of inputs (3 HDMI, two component, 1 VGA + line in for a PC, two S-video/composite. See? Heaps! I went out and got the component cables for my Wii and a DVI-to-HDMI cable for my laptop, and conveniently found a composite cable for my DVD player, which means I’m all high quality video’d up. It’s amazing! Next purchase will definitely be a TV stand, since I’m using two tiny footstools (formerly night stands) duct taped together, followed shortly thereafter by a surround sound system. It’s funny, but upgrading to a decent TV really highlights the shortcomings of other components. Before, DVD seemed just fine, but now it seems blurry. Compressed movies streamed off the network seemed great, but now they’re all blocky. The graphics of the Wii never seemed lacking, but now they’re noticeably high def (although Super Mario Galaxy still looks amazing). Sigh. I guess there’s no pleasing me. I really do love this television, though.
I guess the moral of this blog entry is that life and technology march on. Goodbye, Peppi.
Comments
Keddy@home... le sad
awe… I will miss Peppi…
Mark@Home
Yeah. And this house. I’m here cleaning it out now. It’s sad.
Keddy@home
I will miss the house… lots of good memories…
Angie@Valley
It was the home of the Basement crowd which when you look back on it was a pretty varied group of friends, most of whom are still in touch. I remember the movies that you guys made. Ryan with the helmet on is particularly memorable.
Steve
Whats hilarious to me is that I randomly got into another Pepsi vs Coke argument at work not to long ago! Oh and yay for my broke ass TV woot woo. hmm my right arrow is broken…
Keddy@home
haha I will miss that house… and yeah me with the helmet on is a pretty memorable part of the basement.
Alex
Awww I’ll miss Peppi