Erin’s turning another year older on Monday, so I’m taking the day off to spend it with her. I suspect that William will also be hanging around.

I’ve been looking around for a component rack to house the receiver, DVD player, VCR etc. I hit the mall on Wednesday, and the only one that I saw was $500 - somewhat ridiculously priced for what amounts to four shelves and four posts. I think Erin and I will wind up going out this weekend to find one (that will cost us much less than $500 ;-)) Speaking of overpriced things though…I went to A&B Sound looking for SVideo cables, so that I could hook up all of the components to the projector. I knew what I needed (one twelve foot cable, and two six foot cables.) The guy at the cable counter pulled out two six footers, and told me that they didn’t have any twelve footers left. He suggested that I could buy four six foot cables and a little extender thing to make twelve feet out of two sixes. I had a quick look at the price on their six foot cables, and decided to pass on getting cables there. The next day I went to Radio Shack, and picked up all of the cables for just slightly more than the price of one six footer at A&B…I don’t fault them for selling overpriced cables (keeping in mind that the ones I was looking were their cheapest - they had ones that were more than twice that price too…) I just think it’s funny that they’ll get people to spend that, by scaring them into thinking that they’re throwing away money if they get a good DVD player and cheap cables. I’d wager that the cables I got from Radio Shack are every bit as good as the “high end” cables that A&B sells…

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Are you the creator of Hi and Lois because you are making me laugh.” - Comic book guy