I just got an email tonight about the Blockbuster Online Service. They are changing the program a bit. They are revamping it and calling it Blockbuster Total Access. Oh, what is Blockbuster Total Access? Well, one drawback about these online movie rentals is that I live in Hawaii. Most of the movies are shipped from the mainland and have to be returned to the mainland. So, if I get a movie today, watch it tonight and mail it tomorrow, I would probably get the next movie in my queue in about a week. If I were on the mainland, I think my delay would be maybe 3 days or so. Yea, yea, yea, what a short amount of time to bitch about, but so what?
Well, Blockbuster is now changing the program so that if I get a movie in the mail, I can return it to a store, and when I return it, I get a free in store movie rental! I guess they scan the return and when they do that, the next movie in my queue gets mailed out the next business day! Yippy! So, now instead of getting 4 in store movie rental coupons a month, I get one in store movie coupon, but I get a free rental with every return. I think that’s a pretty good deal.
Of course, I also am happy that I found out that if you go to cancel your membership before the trial period, Blockbuster will offer you the unlimited rentals, (3 out at a time), for $15.99/month for 6 months, instead of the $17.99/month.
I was going to give NetFlix a try, but since I am getting a pretty good deal with Blockbuster, I guess I will stay with them for now.
They are also slowly revamping their website and are finally adding some limited RSS feeds - like top 100 rentals, crap like that, but hopefully they will add RSS feeds for movie queues. I want a movie queue plugin dammit!
November 2nd, 2006
Monday night I did the 2 mile walk from Leslie Sansone. I’ve gone over it before, so I don’t really have any new insight to add, except that it definitely has gotten easier to do. Whoo Whoo!
Since that workout is about 30 minutes long, I felt like doing something else as well as an add on. Since I
kind of did a strength workout the day before, I wanted to do something kind of light. I decided on the Firm Sculpting Ball workout. Since my back would hurt like a mofo when doing the cardio segment on this DVD, I decided to use a 3 pound ball I had instead of the 4 pound ball. It worked! I switched back to the 4 pound ball after that segment, but I am glad that I kind of figured out what the problem was.
Tuesday night, I decided to go for a strength workout, so I did the Firm Maximum Body Shaping. It’s about 45 minutes long and is a nice full body strength workout. It’s led by Tracie Long and man, that woman is FIERCE! She is one of the older Firm instructors and probably the best one they ever had. Man, this woman is built! Her legs were so muscular in this workout, it makes you wonder what her training regiment must have been like.
She actually left the Firm a few years ago and started Tracie Long Training and the health club V in Charleston, South Carolina. Her TLT DVD’s are awesome, or so I’ve heard, I’ve only done 1 of the 4 she’s put out. She’s really leaned out since she left the Firm. I think it’s because she focuses on what’s called functional fitness. The Firm touts the leg press step up exercise as a great way to trim your thighs, and I am sure that it works for some people, but for a lot of people, it actually bulks a lot of people up. I think it did in my case. I used to work out to the Firm 5 or 6 days a week last year. I did lose some weight, but my thighs definitely got bigger when I was doing them pretty much exclusively.
That’s one thing that I noticed about Tracie Long, she thighs are definitely leaner now that she’s left the Firm. Is it because she no longer does the leg press? I don’t know, but that is the impression I get.
I am not sure what workout I will do tonight. I am pretty tired again and maybe I should actually sleep at a reasonable hour.
November 2nd, 2006
