THE IT CROWD aside, I haven't been watching much TV. I do catch LEVERAGE if I can remember it's on. I've pretty much given up on ENTOURAGE. I'm still trying to watch PERSONS UNKNOWN, although I don't know why. I haven't given that new ALIAS clone on USA a chance yet, maybe once a few are stockpiled on OnDemand. Still about two months away from the fall season as of this writing. (Most shows start the week of the 20th in September.)
Poker was going awesome the first part of the month, and then I lost a ridiculous amount. I was (and still am) a bit scared that I'd have to drop back down a level in stakes. Maybe if I followed some sort of actual stop loss, like 3 buy-ins, I'd be able to avoid massive 16 buy-in downswings. But usually if I'm down in a session I can get it back up and either come close to break even, or even make a tiny profit after being down something like four buy-ins. Then again, every so often, I have days where I lose and it gets worse and worse. Fortunately, the lose a bunch and win it back quick days outnumber the lose big and keep losing days. So, I just have to concentrate on playing a little less aggressively and let marginal spots go. Try to play breakeven and avoid big pots without super monsters for a bit. It's frustrating, but all I can do is ride it out.
I've run out of Playstation 3 games that I want to replay. So my choices are to either find some old Playstation 2 games (I've got an older PS3 with the backwards compatibility), try to re-repair my 360 until I can scrape up the dough for a new one, or maybe replay something in my PC game library. I'm kind of thinking about restarting FALLOUT 3. A friend of mine I recommended the game to stopped by about two weeks ago and was asking me a bunch of questions about it that I couldn't remember the answers to.
The upgrade from XP to Windows 7 is something I'm still putting off. I started backing up some of my data to my 2TB external hard drive, but since I don't have an eSATA interface and am doing it via USB 2.0, it takes a long time to backup large amounts of files. Reformatting and starting from scratch is the real daunting part of the whole thing, since I've got everything set the way I want and working fine on XP. Times have changed from when I'd get my hands on an OS early and jump on installing it as soon as I could (98, ME, 2000, XP).
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I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to install 7 over XP without a reformat, but I probably didn't.
I'm still watching Burn Notice, White Collar, and Psych in addition to Leverage, the IT Crowd, and Louie, so I have something to watch every day.
Have you watched Memphis Beat? I tried to watch it and I didn't really care for it. I may give it a few more episodes when I'm really bored. I hope it gets better.
No, you can do a straight upgrade from Vista to 7, but with XP you have to reformat. There's an official tool to backup some folders and settings, but honestly, I'm more worried about having to transfer 300+ gigs of videos, pix, game save files, databases (for poker), and then having to reinstall it all, than I am about Windows remembering how I like certain folders to display in list format and others to show thumbnails.
As far as MEMPHIS BEAT goes, I kept seeing commercials and it didn't look like anything I'd want to watch.
I'd probably watch PSYCH, since I did like it, but that was one of my brother's favorite shows, and I get bummed out when I just see commercials for it now. Maybe I'll go back and watch the ones I missed someday.
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