Productive Day Off

So I had a day off for the first time in nine days (my last day off was actually the last time I posted here) and I actually got a whole bunch of stuff done. I managed to go grocery shopping -- and picked up some popcorn chicken which I cooked up nicely for dinner -- and finish all my laundry as well as clean the condo.

I'm still using Blog.Mac for this site, though I'm also still in trial mode. I'm pretty happy with it so far, but I just wish there was an option for turning off the little picture sound the iSight feed makes when it uploads something. I'll probably suggest that to the developer when I get a chance. For now, I just have to mute the sound on my G5 when I go to sleep.

So I'm back on a big Buffy collecting kick right now. I actually made up a spreadsheet of all the Buffy 6-inch figures released so far (and those that have been announced but not actually released yet). By my count, there are 95, give or take some convention exclusives, and I've got 33 so far. I did pick up both Hell's Bells and Once More, With Feeling Anya since my last post, and I went with The House Always Wins Lorne instead of Judgement Lorne. Plus, I also got a great deal on Grave Spike from CineQuest.com, and I won a few older figures on eBay today. Basically, if I can pay less than retail for a figure that's long since been discontinued, I will. Once I actually receive some of the ones I've ordered, I may actually take pictures of all of them and post a nice photo gallery. For now, the wide shots in the condo gallery will have to hold you over.

Oh, and I'm mega excited about football season. I actually have the first Sunday of the NFL season off, plus I'm opening on the first Thursday, so I can watch the Raiders destroy the Patriots and break Tom Brady in half (or, more likely, watch the Patriots romp to another uninspiring, communist-like victory, but one can always hope). My fantasy roster is pretty much set, and here's what I've got:

QBs: Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Joey Harrington

RBs: Edgerrin James, Corey Dillon, Carnell Williams, JJ Arrington

WRs: Michael Clayton, Laveranues Coles, Jimmy Smith, TJ Houshmandzadeh, Charles Rodgers

TE: Antonio Gates

K: Matt Stover

DEF: Cincinnati

Obviously, right now my biggest problem is that Antonio Gates won't be playing Week 1. Still, I'm not willing to cut anyone I have just yet for the sole purpose of picking up a one week fill-in at TE. My hope is that Harrington starts the season on fire, and I can trade him for some help at other positions, if I need it.

If you want to track my roster throughout the season, just follow this link: Teeny Boppers. Yes, my team is called the Teeny Boppers. Would you expect any less from me?

Oh, also, I wanted to mention that I tracked down my "projects" folder for my old blog. Stuff I intended to post in long, detailed posts, but never got around to it. I'm going to try to do it here eventually, but for now, here's a list of the stuff that's in there:

Miami Football Dynasty

NBA Champions of the last 26 years

Online Personality quizzes

My technology and it's naming conventions

Well, that's it for today. I've probably bored you all to tears with the mundane nature of my life. Now I'm going to sit back and watch some of the sadder Buffy episodes there were (not sure why, just what I'm in the mood for). If you're interested, I'm starting with "The Body," moving on to "Tabula Rasa" and if I'm still awake, I'll finish with "Becoming, Pt. II."

Until next time, be seeing you...

Hey, I’m back, in an all new form

OK, so I sat down on Friday on this three-day weekend I have here and decided I wanted to accomplish three things:

Finish setting up my basement

Finish my novel

Update my Web site

Guess which one I didn't do (at least as of yet). Well, since you're reading this, that obviously eliminates one choice. So it's either novel or basement. OK, It's novel. Though there is still time left today, and I have made some progress, really there's no way I'm going to get done. The end really is the hardest part.

Still, I am having fun in the new condo, which, if you haven't seen yet, you can get a glimpse of my hopping over to the photo album section and viewing the iPhoto page. I may even take some pictures of the basement today and post those as well.

If you have still been coming to the web site, even in this three month hiatus, you probably noticed that the webcam went down last month and hasn't been back up since. That's because right now, I don't actually have a dedicated webcam, just the iSight hooked up to my main computer. At some point, I may think about moving the camera so I can once again have a live feed into my house, but it's not a priority right now.

As for what I've been up to lately, well, aside from buying the condo, it's really been more of the same. I've bought more DVDs, listened to more music in iTunes and downloaded more Desktop Girls (though for now, under this new forum, the DGOW is no more, until I can figure out a new way to do it). Of course, once of the nicest things about having my own place now is that I was finally able to unbox all the Buffy figures I've obtained over the last few months, and I have them displayed nicely in my living room. My collection is already at 27, plus another 21 if you count all the PALz (mini lego-like figures from Palisades Toys). I'm still looking to expand the collection and I've already got my next targets:

Hell's Bells Anya - the figure based on the Season 6 Wedding episode is arguably the best looking of the Anya figures...

OMWF Anya - ... arguably, because this one is pretty close.

Judgement Lorne - I need a Lorne figure to complete the Angel collection, and this one will do nicely

Bad Girls Wesley - To go with my Bad Girls Faith Deluxe Figure

PALz Monster pack - I need to keep up the PALz collection, since I have all of them so far (not counting convention exclusives)

PALz Gentleman - I'd want these even if I wasn't collecting all the PALz, because they're so cool.

Cordelia - Really any of them but the Pylean variant will do. I somehow managed to end up with four Willows, three Anyas, two Taras, two Darlas and two Drusillas but no Cordy

Xander - there's only been one (with a chase variant) so at some point I'm just gonna have to bite the eBay bullet to grab one, because the cast isn't complete without Xander.

I may have a chance to pick some of these up when Pooz, Moore and I head up to Wizard World Boston at the end of September. I've never been to one of these before, so it should be a pretty cool experience. Plus, Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calender) and Iyari Limon (Kennedy) will both be there at the CineQuest.com booth, so I'll actually have something Buffy-related to hold my interest.

Oh, as for the new look for the web site, I'm trying out a new piece of software called Blog.Mac. I really wanted to go with something that would make updating the site a little easier, and this seems to be the solution so far. Right now it's just shareware, so I'm going to have to try and see if I like it before committing to it. If I decide to switch to something else, the site will probably change in terms of looks again.