Yeah, I know, I haven’t been posting again. You know how it goes. You work. You come home. You watch crappy summer reality TV programming, because it’s new. You try to take a chunk out of the giant stack of unwatched DVDs you have sitting next to your computer, all the while making an even larger number of reviews you have to write (the Monday Movie Review is coming back soon, I promise!). Time to fill you in on what’s up in my world though.

I made a new purchase. Wait, I should clarify. I make a new frickin’ purchase every day. Take today for instance. I bought Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here and got 9 new BMG CDs in the mail. This is different though. This is hardcore spending. Hopefully it will actually slow down my spending to a responsible degree too, in a great act of irony.

Folks, I give you the Lifestyle 35:

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I wasn’t going to buy anything off of the Spring Employee Sale because I figured I couldn’t really afford anything on there anyway. But then I really wanted 5.1 sound. The Freestyle is nice, but it’s not 5.1. And our systems kick ass. I should know, I try to sell them everyday. So then one day I notice the price drop on the Lifestyle 18 at the same time I look at our 18 Months financing sign. I do a little math and figure out that for 80 bucks a month I could have a LS18.

So I ask my coworkers, “Should I get a LS18?” Of course they say yes, but with a little hesitation, knowing I have like no money saved up. Then my manager mentions the fact that I could get the LS35 for LESS money than the LS18 with the employee sale. The Employee price is actually more than half what the store price is. The only thing: I can’t use my financing. At this point I’m sold though. I HAVE to have it. I go to my parents with a brilliant scheme. I pay for half of it up front, borrow the other half from my folks and pay them back in installments. Amazingly it goes over pretty well. Saturday I buy my system.

This thing is KICK ASS. I can’t wait to get it in the mail (I order it from corporate, they ship it when the check clears). What about the Freestyle, you say? The sweetest computer speakers you ever did see. My house is going to be kicking.

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In sadder news, my mom told me that Dan Koziol died in a car crash Sunday night. He was driving with a guy who was loaded and driving 80 mph. He crashed the car, they died on impact, and their bodies were burned up in the fire. Dan was a cool guy. We’re going to miss him.