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I told myself I had to post something to live(dw)journal today! So here I am, posting... something. hah.
For reasons that are not really important, I am in possession of my mother's X-Box. I borrowed it from her ages ago because I needed to play a video game for work. (I know, I'm fully aware of how odd both those sentences are! lol) In any case, I never gave it back to her, but for the most part it's just been sitting there doing nothing. For a while there I was using it as a DVD player because ours had died on us, but then we got another DVD player so we stopped using it for that, too. I'm not particularly fond of video games (by 'not fond' you may as well read 'actively hate' despite I have to occasionally play them for work), so it didn't get used. But then my then roommate's then fiance would use it to log on to his membership or whatever and stream Netflix films on it, and that was cool.
So, when I eventually got around to moving into my own place I canceled my cable subscription (something I have been wanting to do FOREVER) and now I just use my mother's X-Box to stream Netflix stuff. I can also get a huluplus account and watch a bunch of television shows that way but honestly there is more than enough to keep me occupied with just netflix.
For some reason, when I moved into my own apartment I stopped watching shows on my computer, whether on DVD or computer file. I don't know why but for the most part it is a change I feel is for the best. I used to watch TV shows in bed a lot on my computer. It was cosy. But then I moved and now live alone and that habit has seemed to go away and for the most part I do not miss it. It's lovely just reading and going to bed. And now I watch TV almost entirely from my couch. Yay! But then what happened was that all the shows I had on avi files were not getting watched because I just couldn't make myself watch on my computer anymore and I didn't have one of those fancy DVD players that could play avi files. So I did a bunch of research of how best to fix this 'problem' and went through various solutions until I realized that with my magic X-Box all I had to do was load up a thumb drive (or pop in a data dvd), stick it in, and voila. I won't bore you with the details of the various trials and errors of how I figured out I could do that, because I wanted to make it so much more complicated than it ever ever was.
Magic X-Box FTW!!!!
Thus I am now caught up on Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, and almost done with Lost Girl but I'm savoring the second season slowly so I'm only midway through and loving it.
I thought of writing up posts about Doctor Who and Downton Abbey but both would pretty much boil down to LOVED IT LIKE PIE. Well, Downton Abbey I loved like pie. Doctor Who I loved like... I don't know... what's a messy sort of dessert - trifle? hahahah.
Gah, it's been so long since I made any sort of significant post to LJ I almost forgot how to cut tag...
( Doctor Who )
( Downton Abbey )
For reasons that are not really important, I am in possession of my mother's X-Box. I borrowed it from her ages ago because I needed to play a video game for work. (I know, I'm fully aware of how odd both those sentences are! lol) In any case, I never gave it back to her, but for the most part it's just been sitting there doing nothing. For a while there I was using it as a DVD player because ours had died on us, but then we got another DVD player so we stopped using it for that, too. I'm not particularly fond of video games (by 'not fond' you may as well read 'actively hate' despite I have to occasionally play them for work), so it didn't get used. But then my then roommate's then fiance would use it to log on to his membership or whatever and stream Netflix films on it, and that was cool.
So, when I eventually got around to moving into my own place I canceled my cable subscription (something I have been wanting to do FOREVER) and now I just use my mother's X-Box to stream Netflix stuff. I can also get a huluplus account and watch a bunch of television shows that way but honestly there is more than enough to keep me occupied with just netflix.
For some reason, when I moved into my own apartment I stopped watching shows on my computer, whether on DVD or computer file. I don't know why but for the most part it is a change I feel is for the best. I used to watch TV shows in bed a lot on my computer. It was cosy. But then I moved and now live alone and that habit has seemed to go away and for the most part I do not miss it. It's lovely just reading and going to bed. And now I watch TV almost entirely from my couch. Yay! But then what happened was that all the shows I had on avi files were not getting watched because I just couldn't make myself watch on my computer anymore and I didn't have one of those fancy DVD players that could play avi files. So I did a bunch of research of how best to fix this 'problem' and went through various solutions until I realized that with my magic X-Box all I had to do was load up a thumb drive (or pop in a data dvd), stick it in, and voila. I won't bore you with the details of the various trials and errors of how I figured out I could do that, because I wanted to make it so much more complicated than it ever ever was.
Magic X-Box FTW!!!!
Thus I am now caught up on Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, and almost done with Lost Girl but I'm savoring the second season slowly so I'm only midway through and loving it.
I thought of writing up posts about Doctor Who and Downton Abbey but both would pretty much boil down to LOVED IT LIKE PIE. Well, Downton Abbey I loved like pie. Doctor Who I loved like... I don't know... what's a messy sort of dessert - trifle? hahahah.
Gah, it's been so long since I made any sort of significant post to LJ I almost forgot how to cut tag...
( Doctor Who )
( Downton Abbey )
