So yesterday we put some of our gift cards together and got a blu-ray player. It only costs us $50 after gift cards. Not too bad. Now we can finally watch movies in HD. To me even DVDs look better in the blu-ray player than in the old DVD player. The blu-ray player must upscale our DVDs better than our old DVD player did.

We are also using this time to upgrade our receiver too. It’s sad to retire our old receiver and DVD player that we spent over $600 on, but it would be nice to have HDMI on the receiver.

Sadly the receiver selection at Best Buy is pretty limited, so I had to order it from Amazon. I probably would have ordered one even if Best Buy had it in stock. It was $100 cheaper than it was at BestBuy.com. I wish we didn’t have to pay sales tax at Amazon like most of the country, but oh well, still a pretty good deal.

So I started the ’00s with VHS and ended them with blu-ray. That’s a pretty big transition. I wonder what the next 10 years will bring?

Anybody that knows me knows that I love to learn, especially if it’s fun. I am ok at geography, but could be better. I just spent an hour playing this game. I got up to level 6. I was pretty good at getting the right country, but pretty much sucked at knowing where the city was in each country.