Toys for the boys

Yesterday was a truly exciting day as I spent most of the morning browsing all the new electronics that I'm going to need to buy this side of the Pond. The fact that the voltage is different over here provided me with the ideal excuse to leave everything behind in the UK and buy everything again from scratch - mmmmm!

So, before going to a colleagues for dinner we stopped off at Circuit City so I could idle a few hours of my life away staring lovingly at consumer electronics in a way that Steph would never let me do :-) But this time I'm listing everything I'm actually, truly going to buy:

Samsung 40" HDTV LCD 120Hz 1080p - oh, yes!!

Couple of TV/DVD combos for Joe & Hannah

Furniture to sit the TV on

2 new top-spec laptops, with built-in Webcams, BluRay DVD players

WiFi printer

Onkyo 7.1 receiver to hook up the TV and cable boxes to

XBox360

Pioneer multi-region DVD - online from http://www.dvdcity.com/

Did I have a great time? You bet I did. And I topped it all off by lavishing a couple of boxed DVD sets (Shark: Season 1 and Planet Earth) on myself (TV in the room sucks) - all in the interests of experimenting with the use of my new Amex card, of course ;-)

And, frankly, I needed to spoil myself after the hell and frustration of trying to sort out bank accounts, buying a car, etc. But I'll tell you more about the joy of those on another post.