Jason & I have signed up for Netflix! He keeps saying he's tired of watching TV, and although he says this, apparently he is addicted because he can't stop watching!! So his idea was to cancel the cable and rent documentaries & silly movies from Netflix instead. Currently we're on the two-at-a-time plan, for $14, which is about $1 more than we pay for cable. I'm glad to be rid of the TV, but I will miss: the Santa Cruz channels (all four of them! ♥ They were so awesome), Man vs. Wild, and Degrassi: TNG every day at 2:30pm, right when I get home from work. Of course we can get Degrassi on DVD (we already have the first two seasons!)...but I don't think I'm going to be so lucky with my Bear Grylls :( Hopefully I'll be able to locate a community where I can download episodes from.

So that means that ONE cool thing about living here (and there are plenty more, of course), even with all this bad traffic, is that it means that San Jose is JUST OVER THE HILL, so it only takes one day for the DVD to be delivered, and seemingly less than a day (!!! I'm not even sure how that one worked) for them to be delivered. We just signed up on Tuesday, got our two movies, watched & returned, and already have the second set!

I just read a book called Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer and I just wanted to recommend it to everyone. It's about the crazies in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how they got to be the murdering, raping, creeps that they are. Although the (mainstream) Mormons said it was an assault on their religion, coming out of reading the book, I feel no differently towards Mormons than I did before, just a lot more wary of the so-called 'fundamentalists.' The book does review the common history the two sects share, back in the day with good ol' Joe Smith, and it's true that, yeah, maybe it's not so flattering--but I'm pretty sure it's what the Mormons themselves would concede 'happened' and so it's not anti-Mormon in any way at all. Most of all, though, it's just chock full of cool information, it's written in a way that is really engrossing--I had a hard time putting the book down, and Jason was always wishing I'd continue reading it out loud to him (which is rare--most books I try to read to him do NOT hold his interest). I just wish it were longer and had MORE information in it.