Decisions, decisions

Our visitors are gone and we've been enjoying having some space (and a bed) again. Cate's going through a growth spurt and is devouring everything we can find in the fridge, which means almost daily trips to the markets, which are flooded with people lately from morning to night. It's actually a nice way to cool off in the evening.

One thing I've found difficult about being here is keeping up with what's making news back home. We've always taken most of our news from the web, but at home we'd usually flip on the late night news with Lloyd or Peter, and throw in a little local for good measure. But it's nice to find out that we're never too far away when we have the trusty internets. Apparently GlobalTV Lethbridge had its local expatriates in mind, and realized sometimes reading the big local stories just isn't good enough. Ah, it's good to see a familiar face, Ian.

Speaking of being online and computers, Carmen and I have been faced with a dilemma recently. We were given a nice-sized TV when we arrived in Korea, but no DVD player. You'd think since we're in the most technologically advanced country in the world, we'd be able to find some fairly good deals and just buy one. But that's not the case. The cheapest machine we've found is about CDN $100. Is that really worth buying for eight months? A simple solution would be to just use our laptop as an entertainment centre, which is what we've been doing. It's not a huge screen but it's good enough for us. The problem is, we don't have a wireless router which means to continue "renting" movies from the online "store" we need to be connected most of the time, so it becomes a pain to move it into the bedroom/living room. So we just put up with it and get a bit uncomfortable while we watch. But, I'm running out of space for all the movies and TV shows we "rent" on the hard drive, because we've taken literally thousands of pictures since coming here, and the computer is also our music "store". So we need to get an external hard drive to keep up. So, in the interest of saving money, the question is: do we buy a DVD player and burn CDs (which we'll have to buy as well), and then give the DVD player up when we leave? Or, do we but an external hard drive and a wireless router, both of which can be packed up when we go home? I'm so stressed.