I spent the day On Broadway. I enjoy listening to show tunes, and so I expected to enjoy today’s bootcamp experience, and I wasn’t disappointed. The channel has a live announcer in the morning and is automated the rest of the day — I was happy with both modes of operation.

The main problem with this channel, like many others, is trying to use it as background music while working. I kept finding myself wanting to listen to the music, and even turning up the volume from time to time — which didn’t work out well when I had to be on the phone. This would be a great channel to listen to in the car, though!

Tomorrow, it’s the 70’s; I’m planning to work from home and I don’t have many conference calls, so I may be able to turn it up a bit…which I’ll probably regret when they start playing disco!

It was a mostly relaxing weekend, which was a Good Thing between busy weeks at work. No major purchases to report, either, though I do want to find a dealer with silver and red ’04 Priuses sometime so I can see what those colors actually look like. Not that I have any imminent plans requiring that knowledge or anything like that.

We did make a quick trip to Costco and bought a blister pack full of phones to replace our existing cordless and answering machine; the old cordless had a wonderful “out of range alarm” feature which beeped if you walked far enough from the base unit for the remote to lose signal. Unfortunately, the alarm also sounded if the base unit lost power, which was not a good thing at 3am. The new cordless units put a message on their display if you try to use them and they don’t have a signal — that seems to be more reasonable behavior to me.