I did it, though I don't know why
Here's a little parable about the dangers of excess free time and cash. On Monday, my friend Brad had his PC's power supply give out on him, at about the same time as half the electrical grid in town. (Events which you might presume to be connected, but I'm a little fuzzy about the chronology.) Meanwhile, I had just been paid and, flush with wealth, headed out to see what I might purchase in order to salvage what was otherwise a fairly humdrum day. (Whose highlight was a broken sewer main that flooded a building and cancelled my Introduction to Java class, if that tells you what sort of day it was.) Brad decided to tag along, in order to see if there were any power supplies to be had at Fred Meyer. Of course, there weren't.
Maybe he and I and Roarke had been out for dinner earlier. Yes, I think we had. Anyway, I didn't find anything I particularly wanted to buy at the moment, when either Brad or I mentioned in passing that we could probably find a power supply as well as a better media selection at Best Buy. In Yakima.
Well, what would life be without unexpected diversions? Prospects were slightly better at Best Buy, and Brad found a power supply, but I was still unsatisfied. Gigantic, the TMBG documentary, had come out last week, and I had heard that Borders was carrying it. With 15 minutes to spare before closing (though we didn't realize that yet) we pulled into the Borders parking lot and I started quickly scanning the shelves. I didn't find Gigantic by the time the staff started herding people out the door, so I had consigned myself to going home with as much money as I had left with when I passed a display of cheaply priced "cult" films.
And, well, there's no sense trying to dress this up: I bought Manos: The Hands of Fate, complete and unaltered. I am not in a habit of watching awful films without professionally crafted amusement accompanying them, but this was an opportunity that I felt unable to pass up. I made a very nerdy Lord of the Rings reference at the time that I won't foul my good name with by repeating here.
After that I bought the first season of Angel to try and cleanse myself, and drove home poor.
Here's a little parable about the dangers of excess free time and cash. On Monday, my friend Brad had his PC's power supply give out on him, at about the same time as half the electrical grid in town. (Events which you might presume to be connected, but I'm a little fuzzy about the chronology.) Meanwhile, I had just been paid and, flush with wealth, headed out to see what I might purchase in order to salvage what was otherwise a fairly humdrum day. (Whose highlight was a broken sewer main that flooded a building and cancelled my Introduction to Java class, if that tells you what sort of day it was.) Brad decided to tag along, in order to see if there were any power supplies to be had at Fred Meyer. Of course, there weren't.
Maybe he and I and Roarke had been out for dinner earlier. Yes, I think we had. Anyway, I didn't find anything I particularly wanted to buy at the moment, when either Brad or I mentioned in passing that we could probably find a power supply as well as a better media selection at Best Buy. In Yakima.
Well, what would life be without unexpected diversions? Prospects were slightly better at Best Buy, and Brad found a power supply, but I was still unsatisfied. Gigantic, the TMBG documentary, had come out last week, and I had heard that Borders was carrying it. With 15 minutes to spare before closing (though we didn't realize that yet) we pulled into the Borders parking lot and I started quickly scanning the shelves. I didn't find Gigantic by the time the staff started herding people out the door, so I had consigned myself to going home with as much money as I had left with when I passed a display of cheaply priced "cult" films.
And, well, there's no sense trying to dress this up: I bought Manos: The Hands of Fate, complete and unaltered. I am not in a habit of watching awful films without professionally crafted amusement accompanying them, but this was an opportunity that I felt unable to pass up. I made a very nerdy Lord of the Rings reference at the time that I won't foul my good name with by repeating here.
After that I bought the first season of Angel to try and cleanse myself, and drove home poor.
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