Vortexia's Secret

sirius radio. is it good? or not worth the dough?

i tested it for a couple days and have to say i wouldn't waste my money. between two relatively close cities, the station died out 3 or 4 times. seems the satellites aren't quite as seamless as they would have us believe. out of the 100 some stations (i think it's about 120 or so), i found one alternative station. one. no different from mainstream radio. and they still cut in to promote the station and have their mindless little radio dj chatter. which isn't always a bad thing... sometimes you find out little factoids about bands or concerts or funny stories. but if you're paying $10 a month, i would want the music to be as continuous as a never ending compilation CD. oh, and that's another thing. they also have the same problem as regular radio... they play the same 25 or so songs over and over. it feels like i heard the new mars volta song about 15 times over the past weekend. it's nice to have the little screen showing what song is playing, but it's pretty old school, so the glare on it is horrible. most of the times i couldn't see the words on the screen even if i shaded the display. when you switch from station to station it takes several seconds for it to finish "acquiring info" and get the show on the road. frustrating if you try to rapid flip the stations like i do. and with so many stations i didn't want to hear, it was pretty prohibitive to me to decide to change stations. unless i really hated a song, i just sighed and left it there. so all in all, i'd say keep your money.

as for my next thought... it's gone. oh wait, oh wait... i remember now. so i told somebody i thought "the office" was already out on DVD even though they claim it's brand new. they said it was never out... well, they were wrong and i was right. it was originally a british comedy. hope it is better than the american version of coupling!

so working out last night was nice enough that i did it again today. hopefully in the next couple days my frustrations of the past week and a half, now almost 2 weeks, will end. i certainly hope it will. i'm so tired of dealing with the frustrations i've faced lately.