Today's Bridge: We didn't get many good hands to work with, and Dan jumped into an auction with a 4D bid that I just knew was misplaced. Sure enough, he made 4... minus the 6-trick book. The resulting 1100 point swing made the final hand moot, so I didn't mind too much when he raised my closeout 1NT to an unmakeable 2NT (admittedly, a good spade split would have given us the contract, but as the cards lay, there was no way to avoid the fatal spade loser... fortunately, Paul gave me the trick I needed with a club lead when he had a diamond and Steve had A-K-Q - he could probably have guessed that the diamond lead was right, but Steve also failed to signal him).

Today's DC2: I played a few levels while watching the rest of the Arrested Development DVD, and met a few conditions for Heim Rada at great expense - but my weapons are progressing nicely enough. I should have a machine gun before long, at which point I can start building up the Jurak Gun and start working on a grenade launcher.

So... no Avatar today? A bit disappointing, but since I've got the entire first season on DVD now, I won't complain. I also have the third season of Bullshit, thanks to a quick stop at Borders on the way back from Best Buy. Since Curt won't be around this weekend to help me choose a good HDTV, I decided to take him over there tonight to get some DVDs that he wanted and help me pick the best TV for me. I found a Samsung 30" flat tube one that I like, and there's a bundle that includes a stand and an XBox 360 Pro package for a bit of a discount, although if the coupon I have doesn't work on the bundle (and I doubt it would), then I'll probably just skip the bundle and get the TV for 12% off, which will be about $670, and wait on the XBox 360 for a while. Granted, the TV may not do me much good without an HD signal, yet, but I'll be able to play DVDs on it and see them from across the room, and I can devote my larger TV to games, so they can be seen from across the room as well. I assume that the HDTV will have a coaxial input, and it will hopefully be able to receive a standard analog signal, but if not, I'll watch TV on the existing screen. Actually, I'll probably have to do that anyway, because the HDTV won't have the built-in VCR. Maybe I can just invest in a cable splitter like the one we've got downstairs. (I'd do that on the current TVs, but the small one doesn't have a remote anymore, so I never saw the point in switching it off the game channel.)

I've made the unlikely choice of Seven of Seven for this week's anime viewing, and I should have plenty of time tonight to get in an episode, so I'm off to finish my affairs and crawl into bed with the seven Nanas. (I think I need to record myself for a few days and listen to the playback... I might be missing some innuendos.)