Sheer Middle-Class Exhaustion

Jesus, what a vacation.

I saw a grand total of four friends on a personal basis, and a few other people at my brother's graduation ceremony. Thank you, friends. Everyone else-- you're dead to me.

Just kidding. I know how busy and exciting Panama City Beach can be.

Anyways, right now my car is packed to the taint with every random piece of wonderful-ness that my mom could stand to part with. I'll probably be getting around 4 MPG (highway) in my 2003 Honda Accord with all that shit suffocating every interior inch.

Thanks for letting me take a break from the site and enjoy doing absolutely nothing. Now for the adventure of driving cross-country by myself, signing over a thousand-dollar check to some apartment lady, and moving in with the help of my lazy wonderful, able-bodied Rice friends.

I was trying to figure out how I'm going to watch House and 24 next year without paying for it. I could just download everything, but that takes the ritual out of Monday and Tuesday nights. Fuck that. Did you know that HDTV is broadcast FOR FREE? It is. But I don't have an HDTV tuner in my HDTV-heady TV. So here's the idea.

HDTV SIGNAL --> UHF/VHF Antenna --> USB HDTV TUNER in laptop --> S-Video or VGA or something connection to TV

If you have any ideas about how to get better-than-NTSC-quality programming to an HDTV-ready TV without paying out my ass for digital cable, let me know.

I'll be funny once I move in, barring a complete emotional breakdown. I mean, I'm pretty lucky, but this is more work than I'm used to doing on my own. Builds character, they say. I'll get through it. It's all worth it. It's most definitely worth it. At least I'm not bitching because I failed nine hours of coursework and I double-booked my 10AM slot with BOTH the hair dresser AND the Asian nail ladies. Cough cough.