i went to the doctor’s office this morning and got a walk-in appointment. my stomach has been bothering me for the last week and i started to get concerned that this was not normal. i’ve also had a nagging cough for a long time and so i thought it might be good to get that checked out. it turns out that the doctor’s visit was rather uninteresting. she told me that there didn’t seem to be anything to worry about and that whatever it is, probably viral, that it’ll run its course and i’ll eventually be fine.

i think that’s usually how most of my doctor’s visits go. i guess it’s good that it’s uninteresting, but i wish i could do something to make myself feel better. i’ve sat out of some prime volleyball playing because i haven’t been feeling well.

but what will make me feel infinitely better is the arrival of my NEW TV. 46 inches of diagonal glory soon to be housed at my place. it’s gonna be k-rad. that’s right, you heard me. K-RAD!

i watched the break up over the weekend and it was absolutely awful. i am a big sucker for romantic comedies, but this was definitely not a romantic comedy. yes, yes, i get that the title of the movie is the BREAK UP, but with vince vaughn and jennifer aniston as the leads to the movie you would think that the movie would be full of hilarity.

warning, there may be some spoilers below…

full of hilarity? no, such is not the case. instead you are forced to endure 106 minutes of torture watching the two fight. at the one point where you think that the movie will finally be worth all of the emotional pain that you are subjected to, there is no payoff. the movie is not a romantic comedy, but rather a romantic tragedy.

the movie is peppered with humorous moments, but i haven’t had to go through this much agony since bruce willis and michelle pfeiffer teamed up to make the story of us. there’s just too pain through the movie to really be satisfied with the ending. awful. just awful.

the only thing the movie does offer is that jennifer aniston looks amazing and there’s a blurry butt shot of hers as well. =P save this movie for a rental or maybe a download if you are so inclined.

i never really thought that i typed very fast. most of my friends type pretty fast, so i figured that i was pretty normal. i’ve always thought that people who type fast are people who are able to type over 100 words per minute. now THAT’s fast.

but anyway, i remember a long time ago that i took a typing class back in middle school. we used this computer program that taught us how to type and while the rest of the class was getting maybe 40 to 50 words per minute, there was this one girl that was getting 90+ words per minute. i was amazed. i think that i got about as fast as 80ish words a minute back then, but it was stressful. not like her, she looked like she was typing away pretty easily.

i figured that as programmer, one would learn how to type fast because that’s all you do, day in and day out. i guess that’s not really the case, though. cindy told me that i should check out the typing test since i jammed my finger a few days ago. i don’t think that i could really type much faster, jammed finger or not, it just might hurt less to type. =P

this last weekend, christi and i played in a volleyball tournament with these two guys who are pretty big hitters. these two guys were crushing the ball. we started off in the bottom pool and got bumped up a pool. play was competitive and fun throughout the day and we ended up taking second place. it was a fun weekend, but after the first day i was so sore that it hurt to breathe.

i’m beginning to wonder if this is just too much volleyball for me. maybe i need to start taking it easy.

one thing that i’ve noticed is that the really big hitters all suffer from some kind of injury, be it shoulder, knee, or ankle. they are all popping pills before they play. that can’t possibly be a good sign.

i jammed my finger during playoffs last night. it’s the ring finger on my right hand and it is really affecting my typing. it’s sort of annoying, so i’m trying now to avoid hitting any keys with my ring finger, but it’s just weird now because i type faster than i can think so i keep hurting myself. interestingly enough, i found out that i backspace with my ring finger. that’s probably not the right finger to use, right? oh well.

my big tv died. it’s old, though, so i guess i’m not surprised that it finally decided to give up. i think it is about 15 years old. they don’t make TVs like this anymore. BIG. it’s a 35″ tube tv that is built into an entertainment set. it is ridiculously heavy. but the picture stopped showing and the audio stopped too, so it’s now just a really heavy brick.

so i’ve recently started looking for a TV. it’s been years since i’ve shopped for a real TV and landscape has changed dramatically. there are so many choices and i didn’t know where to even start. sure, i’ve heard about plasmas and all, but i didn’t really know much about them, the pros, the cons, or anything. LCD TVs seemed like all the rage lately, too.

i asked warren to point me in the right direction and he gave me a ton of information and some resources to use to do some research. after much research, i think that i’ve settled on the samsung 46″ DLP HDTV. i think it’ll be a fine TV. warren says that once i’m ready to move to something larger, i can move this TV to the bedroom…that warren, he’s such a kidder…or is he?