I have to admit it. I have to come clean. I have once again fallen. I have a new mistress.
I’ve written about my prior mistresses but this one has quickly seduced me and if I have to, I must also admit that she has a friend and they work in tandem…. And it all started so innocently in the electronics department of my local Sears store.
I was walking through the store on the most innocent of shopping trips. My plan was to get a new blender (too many margaritas I guess) and an iron (sparks flying from a frayed cord will do that). My journey through the store took me past the electronics department and knowing that I needed to get a second DVD player to replace the VCR (hey I still have kids) for big screen I started looking around. That’s when my interest in my new secret lover was piqued.
At first I resisted the temptation of the Blu-ray. Hey, I’m not a technology geek. All i needed was a simple DVD player. Nothing fancy. Just something to play movies, but something that will take full advantage of my 1080P, 64-inch, HDTV. But then I noticed something that intrigued me, the price drop in Blu-ray players. (I just love a deal.) As I further investigated the surprising prices, I discovered a new feature - internet enabled players that allow you to connect to video web services like Netflix. I thought, “Hey wait a second, I have Netflix and I use the ‘Watch it Now’ feature on my computer. It would be so much easier to watch it on my TV.”
Well I left the store with my new blender and iron (I later returned the iron after fixing the frayed wire). Over the course of the next week, I happened to mention my new discovery to several people, including EDIT who told me Best Buy had their house brand, blu-ray with wifi on sale for $119.00. If you’ve read this blog for any length, you know I don’t know, nor really care about technology advancements. Heck, I used a Palm with a monochromatic screen for a good five years. When I switched jobs and they won’t pay for a BlackBerry I kept using the Palm. Another example was my StarTAC cell phone. It worked and it was durable, oh yeah and you could include up to 4 numbers for each contact, but when my cell company was unable to support the phone’s technology, or lack thereof anymore, I had to get a new one. (Yeah, I didn’t need one with a camera. WTF do you need a camera on a phone for…. Boy was I wrong on that one.) Anyhow, I digress and you get the point.
So the more and more I thought about it, I kept thinking to myself that this is ONE THING THAT I NEED, THAT MUST HAVE FOR CHRISTMAS. Well that and a sock monkey. (BTW, I didn’t get a Sock Monkey, but I did get a pair boxer shorts with sock monkeys throwing snowballs.) As it turned out, Santa brought me some cash and Best Buy kept their blu-ray on sale, so I logged on and bought myself the” Insignia® Blu-ray Disc Player with Wi-Fi and 1080p Output”. Yet at this point I still did not know the lengths that my love for this item would go.
And why such a deep, previously unknown love? Well, in addition to the incredible properties that a blu-ray brings to my television set, my Insignia has a friend, NetFlix, and it only takes one remote to energize both of them. I mean how perfect is this, when cable and its endless commercials can’t bring me satisfaction, and my DVR (a previous mistress) is fully occupied with children’s shows, I simply grab the remote, push a few buttons and wahla(!), I have access to hundreds of movies and TV shows via the “Watch it Now” feature of my NetFlix membership. And since FLOTUS and I enjoy many a TV comedy, we can now watch most of them wirelessly at the spur of the moment.
Although I have to admit, with the final season of Lost at hand, I was reminded of deep love of that show which was ruined by commercials and weekly cliff-hangers. But now there are no commercials(!) and I find myself staying up ‘til the early morning hours in the company of my mistress blu-ray and her friend Netflix re-watching (in some cases) the previous seasons. I will however be using my DVR mistress on the side to record the 6th, and final season of Lost.
So goodbye to my former mistresses - Washington DC and your cable TV, fancy beds and cuisine; goodbye to steak and SteakMatters (Ok, maybe not steak and SteakMatters); goodbye to poker whether on the television, on the computer or live action; and goodbye to…well maybe not goodbye to all of you…maybe just a break…or maybe a passing of time until…until I need you again. Like a late-night drunk dialer, maybe, just maybe, I’ll come running back to your warm embrace, your comfort.
But until that time… HERE’S TO A NETFLIX QUEUE FILLED WITH ‘WATCH IT NOW’ MOVIES, TELEVISION SERIES, HISTORY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARIES, AND DISCOVERY CHANNEL PROGRAMING!!
POTUS
I’ve written about my prior mistresses but this one has quickly seduced me and if I have to, I must also admit that she has a friend and they work in tandem…. And it all started so innocently in the electronics department of my local Sears store.
I was walking through the store on the most innocent of shopping trips. My plan was to get a new blender (too many margaritas I guess) and an iron (sparks flying from a frayed cord will do that). My journey through the store took me past the electronics department and knowing that I needed to get a second DVD player to replace the VCR (hey I still have kids) for big screen I started looking around. That’s when my interest in my new secret lover was piqued.
At first I resisted the temptation of the Blu-ray. Hey, I’m not a technology geek. All i needed was a simple DVD player. Nothing fancy. Just something to play movies, but something that will take full advantage of my 1080P, 64-inch, HDTV. But then I noticed something that intrigued me, the price drop in Blu-ray players. (I just love a deal.) As I further investigated the surprising prices, I discovered a new feature - internet enabled players that allow you to connect to video web services like Netflix. I thought, “Hey wait a second, I have Netflix and I use the ‘Watch it Now’ feature on my computer. It would be so much easier to watch it on my TV.”
Well I left the store with my new blender and iron (I later returned the iron after fixing the frayed wire). Over the course of the next week, I happened to mention my new discovery to several people, including EDIT who told me Best Buy had their house brand, blu-ray with wifi on sale for $119.00. If you’ve read this blog for any length, you know I don’t know, nor really care about technology advancements. Heck, I used a Palm with a monochromatic screen for a good five years. When I switched jobs and they won’t pay for a BlackBerry I kept using the Palm. Another example was my StarTAC cell phone. It worked and it was durable, oh yeah and you could include up to 4 numbers for each contact, but when my cell company was unable to support the phone’s technology, or lack thereof anymore, I had to get a new one. (Yeah, I didn’t need one with a camera. WTF do you need a camera on a phone for…. Boy was I wrong on that one.) Anyhow, I digress and you get the point.
So the more and more I thought about it, I kept thinking to myself that this is ONE THING THAT I NEED, THAT MUST HAVE FOR CHRISTMAS. Well that and a sock monkey. (BTW, I didn’t get a Sock Monkey, but I did get a pair boxer shorts with sock monkeys throwing snowballs.) As it turned out, Santa brought me some cash and Best Buy kept their blu-ray on sale, so I logged on and bought myself the” Insignia® Blu-ray Disc Player with Wi-Fi and 1080p Output”. Yet at this point I still did not know the lengths that my love for this item would go.
And why such a deep, previously unknown love? Well, in addition to the incredible properties that a blu-ray brings to my television set, my Insignia has a friend, NetFlix, and it only takes one remote to energize both of them. I mean how perfect is this, when cable and its endless commercials can’t bring me satisfaction, and my DVR (a previous mistress) is fully occupied with children’s shows, I simply grab the remote, push a few buttons and wahla(!), I have access to hundreds of movies and TV shows via the “Watch it Now” feature of my NetFlix membership. And since FLOTUS and I enjoy many a TV comedy, we can now watch most of them wirelessly at the spur of the moment.
Although I have to admit, with the final season of Lost at hand, I was reminded of deep love of that show which was ruined by commercials and weekly cliff-hangers. But now there are no commercials(!) and I find myself staying up ‘til the early morning hours in the company of my mistress blu-ray and her friend Netflix re-watching (in some cases) the previous seasons. I will however be using my DVR mistress on the side to record the 6th, and final season of Lost.
So goodbye to my former mistresses - Washington DC and your cable TV, fancy beds and cuisine; goodbye to steak and SteakMatters (Ok, maybe not steak and SteakMatters); goodbye to poker whether on the television, on the computer or live action; and goodbye to…well maybe not goodbye to all of you…maybe just a break…or maybe a passing of time until…until I need you again. Like a late-night drunk dialer, maybe, just maybe, I’ll come running back to your warm embrace, your comfort.
But until that time… HERE’S TO A NETFLIX QUEUE FILLED WITH ‘WATCH IT NOW’ MOVIES, TELEVISION SERIES, HISTORY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARIES, AND DISCOVERY CHANNEL PROGRAMING!!
POTUS
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