The past few months have been pretty eventful, though nothing in terms of figure acquisitions. I am, however, expecting a couple things in the near future, including a set of Summer Uniform Lucky Star Figma (Kagami, Tsukasa, and Miyuki), Yoko Real Image ver., and a bunch of BDs and DVDs from RightStuf’s 12+ Days of Christmas sale.
Black Friday also came and went, and while I didn’t actually go out, I did score a couple interesting items. The first of which came in the week before Thanksgiving…
Yes, that is a brand new DLP television in my living room. Just how big is it and how much did I pay? Keep reading…
Prior to the upgrade, I had a 42in LCD from Vizio in the living room (the whole setup looked like this). The new display is a whopping 60in DLP from Mitsubishi. After some prodding from a coworker, I went to check it out at a local store. Since DLP TVs are slowly being phased out of the market (Mitsubishi is the only company still making them), the price was already marked down. On top of that, the store was running a coupon for $250 off any HDTV bigger than 52in. Final price was ~$750 with taxes. Not bad, eh? 🙂
Since the TV was much bigger, some new furniture was required. This meant several runs to IKEA and I ended up with a LACK TV stand and two EXPEDIT shelving units. Combined with the existing decor and lamps, the whole room has really filled up and looks extremely nice!
Going back a bit further, I’d also done some upgrades to my home computer setups. Chikane now sports two separate drives, with the primary disk being a 300 GB Western Digital Velociraptor. The secondary disk remains the same with a 750GB Samsung SpinPoint F1, though I have noticed a slight performance increase by installing the high performance drive. Additionally, Kagami got a space upgrade in the form of a 1.5 TB hard drive. This replaced one of the 750 GB drives already in service, bringing total drive space up to 5.25 TB (4.78 TB according to the computer).
Well, at this point, that’s really about it! Thanksgiving was full of family visits and Christmas is just around the corner! I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!
How Do You Figure? 
Nice big screen!
I quite enjoy it. Great for movies and games!
Ah… this explains all of the meatballs. 😀
Nice upgrades! ^^
Would like to get an HDtv myself to go into the BluRay age so to speak, but I simply don’t have the space right now.
Am planning on doing some computer upgrades and maybe check out Home Server.
I didn’t go to Blu Ray until earlier this year. I’ve had an HDTV for the past 4 years, it’s just that the sets keep getting bigger. ^.^;;
Nice TV upgrade, good to see Kagami getting the much needed upgrade 😀
Sadly, Belldandy is about to be retired from service. The remaining parts for a low profile HTPC/BD player will be coming in. Strangely, with the specs of the new machine, the naming scheme I have doesn’t quite fit. The media centers should be Tsukasa and Kagami (they’re using the same case, but one has slightly better specs than the other) and the WHS should be Konata.
Hmm… I’ve never been in the practice of renaming computers once it’s been decided… maybe this will be a first…?
How do you like IKEA, overall?
Considering how much furniture I own from there… quite a bit. 🙂
Well, one ought to ask, it could’ve been due to the price 😉
The price is just a bonus! Though I did end up paying quite a bit for the shelves…
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