I am right there with you when you talk about watching the Royal Albert Hall concert on DVD. I initially saw it on YouTube. Immediately I had to buy it on Blu Ray. If I may, when my wife and I had our home built we added a dedicated home theater up stairs. Essentially, we built a one-story home with just the theater added as a second floor. It has a 110" screen, HD projector, and the best sound system I ever came across. It's as if you are at a movie theater but without the sticky floor and $10 tub of popcorn. There is nothing that compares to watching that DVD up there. The audience sounds like they are all around you and Joe sounds as if he right in the middle of things...just as it should. Having that theater built was costly. Ha, the equipment cost more than the actual room addition but as often as I watch DVDs up there I have gotten my money back ten-fold.
I'm not much of a gamer but my boys love to take their friends up there and play video games all day/night. Normally, they know there is a time limit on the amount of time they get to play video games but I sort of look the other way when they have friends over at the house. But, friends or not, there is absolutely no video games during the week. It's a weekends only thing, and only if their grades remain where they should be. My boys are lucky in that they were each born with above average intelligence. While I have never demanded a certain letter/number grade. I refuse to accept any grade that is less than what they would have achieved if they gave it all the attention the class demanded. My question is always "did you do your absolute best?". If I receive an affirmative then that is all I ask of them. Luckily, my boys are honest enough to tell me when they could have worked harder.
"There's not much left for me to tell, I just got back up each time I fell"
