Shan posted a little about the surprising site we saw when hading back from lunch on Sunday. The fact that those people had their kids out there doing their dirty work was just terrible. Okay, fine, I respect your beliefs and your need to express them. I have no problem with that. but at least wait until your children can make up their own mind before you send them out, protesting something that they most likely have no idea about. Especially something like abortion, where most of the grown men can’t possibly know enough, let alone the little kiddies.

Anyways, I just wanted to say a little something about that.

Besides that, let me officially announce a new feature here at Breathingfire.com. I’ve alwasy wanted to post movie reviews, and now I have. On the front page, and maybe on an upcoming ‘Movies’ page, I’ll list all of the latest movies I’ve seen plus a rating from 1-10 stars. And I’ll probably write a little something if it’s deserved. That’s it.

Edit: It’s now on it’s own page!

Ok, come back soon!

I picked up a 1GB Sd card for Shannon’s new camera for $12.99, plus a 2GB SD card for my camera for $24.99!

I’ve decided to test a new feature on Breathingfire.com, called “Slick Deals from SlickDeals”. In this feature, I’ll be showing off some of the things that the marvelous website slickdeals.net has provided for me, at a slick low cost.

I’ll start with the latest deal, which just so happens to be a whole lot of POP!

Thanks to a heads up from SlickDeals, Shan and I were able to score 8 12-packs of Pepsi (4 pepsi, 1 mountain dew, 1 mountain dew livewire, 1 wild cherry pepsi) from Target for $20.00, plus they handed over two gift cards for $5.00 each. Sweet! That’s a lot of pop for $10.00.

Neither of us is that crazy for the pop, though Shan does have a Pepsi craving now and then, but this was a deal we couldn’t pass up. Now our fridge is stocked with 4 flavors of pop so we can stop hitting the healthy milk and water so hard!

After over ten years of playing around with computers, I’ve finally got myself an Apple.

My friend Scott had gotten a Mac Mini a while ago, and I was captivated by it’s small size and the wonderful Mac OS X. You can’t beat the price for what you get, either. I got a 1.83gHz Intel Core Duo with a Superdrive (for making DVDs) and 2GB of RAM. I’ve heard these things are really hard to upgrade, so I got the best of what I could get for now. Only a 80GB hard drive, but I figure I can get an external hard drive for cheap later on.

Anyways, Shan and I just got a new flat screen monitor for the apartment, and the Mac looks nice on it. Not a widescreen, but the desk space is wonderful after having a giant, 90′s CRT TV on there forever.

I’m still in the transition phase, trying to learn the shortcuts and easy ways to do things on a Mac. I know Windows pretty good, at least good enough to get around in it pretty fast, but I’m not too familiar with OSX. But it’s so beautiful and fun to look at that it’s nothing bad to have to spend a few more seconds looking around.

I’m looking forward to spending some time with iPhoto and iDVD, and iMovie HD. Next I need to get a bigger SD card for my camera so I can start taking more videos.

Another real nice thing is the FrontRow feature. Click the link to see some pictures. It’s so smooth and seamless that I love to play with it.

The built-in wireless is also very nice. I just love the attention to detail that Apple puts into it’s products. They know that we don’t want to deal with wires or huge boxes or whatever, so they just make things easier.

The only problem so far has been with the Apple keyboard that I got with the Mini. I ws using the USB slots on the keyboard to transfer photos from Shan’s computer a GB at a time. Let’s see the troubles that caused:

1. First of all, the keyboard doesn’t transmit data through those ports as fast as directly into the computer, so it took forever.
2. Obviously the keyboard didn’t like that because it just stopped working.

So I had to order a new keyboard. That was annoying, but not a big hassle.

So overall I’ll give the Mac Mini an ‘A’ so far. I’m trying to use it for fun stuff only, and keep using my laptop for work.