See, I ran out of CSI earlier -- I'm in the middle of season 6 [almost literally; the last thing I got from Netflix was Disc 3], so we switched over to cable and checked out OnDemand. Which led to Eragon and Lost In Space.

Lost In Space wasn't so bad, if you could get past that godawful monkey-thing. And I'm not sure I can. But Eragon?

Ih.

What's convinced me that being awake for the rest of the day isn't the best of ideas is the fact that Netflix just registered getting the two DVDs I sent back. And they won't be sending any others out, because there's no mail today.

I hate it when there's no mail.

I got Hot Fuzz, which was good. I'm a little worried about those guys, though. I'm afraid they might run out of good and turn into those Scary Teen Date Movie types.

I also got Ghost Rider, but I OnDemanded Farce of the Penguins before watching that. I don't know why I did that. Maybe because Bob Saget is a sick person. That kinda prepared me for Ghost Rider, I think. And for my current rewatching of Mars Attacks.

I heard a lot of complaints about Ghost Rider -- about how Nick Cage ruined it all. I suspected that it wasn't Cage's fault, but the fact that it was another comicbook movie.

I think I was right about that.

OnDemand. I talked about this on the old version of my website, but I'm gonna do it again, because I really enjoyed the shit people thought they were giving me for what I was paying for cable....

My current bill is about $150. I recently dropped the four extra IPs in favour of my own nice little router. Also, it looks like I'm getting my HD box for free. I won't complain about that at all.

What I am paying for is more channels than I need, and very nice high speed cable internet.

Also, I get this really spiffy thing called 'OnDemand'. And most of it is free with my various subscriptions. I've got HBO, Cinemax, Starz, Showtime, some TMC thing -- all sorts of movies under each of them for free whenever I want to watch them. Plus various series...es. Whatever. I've got all of the current Bullshits, whenever I want to watch them. And that's just the premium channels. There's the Free Movies section, which is seperate. Cable Favourites, which includes Court TV, the History Channel, all manner of Discovery Channel subchannels, the National Geographic channel....

I get a lot of free shit. I think there are even free guitar, voice and cooking lessons. Possibly a couple of language things, too. And there's an Adult Swim section.

The only thing I don't have from Comcast right now is their TiVo thing. I really don't care about that, though. HD is really all I want right now.

Back to...what was it, oh yeah, the thankfully free Phantoms. I think all I really have to say is 'Dean Koontz'.

"You see a shotgun and a crucifix. You can only carry one. Which will you take?"

If you say 'cruicifix', you might be at the end of a Koontz story....

...if you're wondering about the title, no, I'm not going to talk about them right now. I'm going to quit for a while because it's time to stare at the ceiling.