October 23, 2007

• Fires in Southern California. Lots of fires in SoCal and it's kinda scary and harkens back to a few years ago when this was also happening. Is it safe to say that along with Earthquakes, Fire should now be considered part of things we need to worry about in SoCal? I work far enough from the fires, but close enough that there is soot in the air from the smoke. Working in an outdoor environment in this condition is just horrible. Soot and dirt getting in the eyes, plus breathing becoming an issue. At the end of the work day, I have to go home and take a shower, if anything else just from the soot that has built up on my hair and face. Yuck indeed. At least this is as far as I'm affected by the fires, and I'm simply absolutely lucky I'm not one of the poor unlucky evacuees. I hope and pray that they make it through this ordeal.

  I didn't mention this before, but after complaining for over half an hour to Direct TV on the phone, I'll add the info here now. Just to let you know, I did pay over $600 for Direct TV's initial
  installation. Yeah, that's a steep price to pay but at that moment I
  was already in deep of wanting to get Direct TV that I just agreed to
  the price. It turns out that the initial fee varies between customers
  based on their credit history, and some people pay as little as $200
  for what I got to as much or more than what I paid for. I thought I had
  a decent credit history, but I didn't think it would cost me an extra
  $300! It was a credit fee of $300 plus the $300 for the HD-DVR. I
  didn't know that until I saw the bill online. So keep this in mind if
  you are considering getting Direct TV. Find out first how much they are
  charging extra because of your credit history, before agreeing to what
  Direct TV package "you qualify for." That was what I was complaining about on the phone, that they should make that fee a little more obvious. They didn't want to "bribe" me to keep quiet though, so I didn't get anything out of this. Bleah.

  One of the "boardies" from the Meg & Dia message board made an unofficial DVD collection of the band. I contributed half of the concert footages and one video for the bonus disc of misc material. I just got it recently and it's pretty damn cool. I've wondered how my videos on DVD resolution on an upconverter DVD player would look on my HDTV, and I've got to say that it isn't bad at all. I'm already thinking of making another fan video for the inevitable second collection. The band themselves are going to get a copy too, so I hope they like it.

  

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