Randomness

Wow, two entries in 24 hours...I haven't managed that in ages!

I'm thinking of buying myself a birthday present. As you know, I was burglarized a couple of months ago, and one of the things that was taken was my international VCR. This means, of course, that my 19 British Buffy/Angel boxed sets (seasons 1-6 of the former and 1-4 of the latter) are unplayable.

I'll keep the boxed sets, of course - given that I'm planning to live in England, I'll be able to play them there - but in the meantime I need to get my Buffy/Angel fix, especially since there's no new Buffy/Angel to look forward to.

Amazon.com has a deal - Buffy seasons 1-4 on DVD for $125 and Angel seasons 1-3 on DVD for $100. That means $225 for what are essentially seven separate boxed sets, which is a damn good deal and still cheaper than replacing my $400+ international VCR. But still, I'd feel kinda wasteful paying $225 for something I already own, even though I can't use it. So I'm feeling torn at the moment.

Edit: Ooh, or Overstock.com has the first Marmalade Boy boxed set for $60, as opposed to Amazon.com's $90.

...In fact, it seems that Overstock has generally very good prices on anime boxed sets. Hmmmmmm... (Imagine that said in the voice of that one psycho Skeksi from The Dark Crystal, and that's how I said it.)

Let's do the time warp

Since it's my birthday, this morning I had to hear - yet again - the story of my birth. Let's just say that I weighed 11 pounds when I was born, and I was a month overdue, and it was during the middle of a heatwave, and you'll get an idea of the stories. Still, it's always fun to hear how I was raising my upper body up on my arms and looking around within a couple of hours of birth, and how I ended up in the neonatal unit (because of high blood sugar and jaundice) surrounded by, like, 3-pound preemies. XD

Also, I watched the DNC last night on PBS. I just want to say that Teresa Heinz Kerry rocks and would be a much better First Lady than Laura "Stepford" Bush. Actually, I thought all of the speakers were good - Obama (the guy from IL), Napolitano (the governor of AZ), and Heinz Kerry's son. Unfortunately, I missed Ted Kennedy, but my parents said he was dynamite as well.