Some News & Notes

My girlfriend and I bought a TV this weekend. We went to Alderwood to check out Circuit City's liquidation sale. We found a great TV there, but they were sold out and wouldn't sell the floor model (what? - are they saving it for later?). But they told us there was one left at the Everett store, but they couldn't hold it for us. So, we raced up there, and were in time to pick it up. Love it so far. Its a 40" Toshiba LCD, we got it for just over $700. HD is amazing.

I called Broadstripe tonight to see what options there were to extend our HD coverage. We got a bunch more HD channels and because of some promotion we pay less now than before we upgraded to the HD package.

I also picked up some renters' insurance today. I went to the State Farm place across the street from school. $130 for a year's policy that includes $20k in coverage plus personal liability coverage and some other stuff that I didn't want but I guess comes standard with renters' insurance. No earthquake coverage though... apparently it's not offered in buildings as old as the one I live in... Hmmm... makes me want to be elsewhere if there's an earthquake.

My building's fire alarm was going off for 2 hours last night. The firemen were on scene right away and give the building an "all clear" but we had to wait for the building super to come turn off the alarm. Apparently he lives an hour and a half away - that's less than ideal.

I never liked Chris Brown anyways.