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Shut up. Quiet. I've got words. I say, this is an auspicious day. We all know what day it is... a glorious day for all the proud members of the Firefly fandom. Box Set Day! The end of Bootlegged episodes and the dawn of picture quality and deleted scenes! Yeah!
...
Um, sorry.
My day was stolenified by ye merrie olde shoppeing today, seeing as how I needed to buy something for my father's 50th birthday, which will be on Wednesday. This also meant an opportunity to do some other shopping I've been meaning to, with the exception of the Big Damn Soundtrack, which isn't even in the ruttin' country yet.
Grr.
So! I started with a toy shop, mostly because I wanted to. I have managed to find the only toy shop in the 'verse that doesn't. have. dinosaurs. This part of my plan wasn't a complete waste, since I saw a wondrous sight on the back wall of a DVD shoppe.
A wondrous sight indeed! There, on the back wall, sixteen copies of the Firefly box set, all waiting for people to buy them. This is especially good news, seeing as how it means that there's some on this side of the world again. The exchange went something like:
Me: I don't think I've ever seen that many of the Firefly box set in one place.
Sales assistant: We got 70 of them in yesterday; all the rest were for orders, and the distributor's finally got copies.
Me: (thinks: OMJWTFsqueeeee!) *dies from happiness*i
This instantly set me up to be happy all day. Wheeeeeeee!
But, there's more. There's a bookshop virtually next door, and I've been looking for the fifth book of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jimbutcher's Dresden Files seriesii for a week or two now. And, they had it! I've started reading it, but only in short bursts so that I don't magically run out of book and then suddenly come back down from my literary high.
And with that, it was off to actually do some presenty shopping. This is where I add a note about me: I like to buy things that'll be fun or amusing, but generally not horribly expensivev. There were four elements to my cunning plan; I'll address each in turn.
Liquorice allsorts are pretty much his favourite confectionery ever. And, they're sold in kilogram bags. Kilogram bags of liquorice allsorts have a side effect of making me want to buy buckets of M&Ms to sit on my desk.
The next thing was a cane. When folk start getting a bit old, and all. It doesn't have a vertical cane, but it was somewhat fun to do the rest of my shopping with a cane.If only it had a sword in...
Everyone needs a hobby. Some peoples' hobbies include impossible jigsaw puzzles, which makes things fun when you frequent the kinds of places that sell impossible jigsaw puzzles. Alas, no double-sided ones; I settled for a borderless puzzle largely made up of coffee beans, with extra pieces. I'm somewhat tempted to open the box, swap the bag of puzzle pieces for a bag of liquorice allsorts, replace the tape on the box, and declare that mine is an evil laughvi.
And, there's the obligatory Somewhat Strange Item™. This time, it's a miniature billiard table with little balls and sticks and everything.
And this put me $5 shy of what I needed to spend for a free $17 quote mug. So, being me, I decided to find something to spend $5 on. My solution? A $7 tub of little plastic dinosaurs. While too small for a serious version of This Land, they'll fit neatly on my desk for a space-saving display I'll call This Miniature Land. And, I got my choice of quote mug. My pick?
...
Um, sorry.
My day was stolenified by ye merrie olde shoppeing today, seeing as how I needed to buy something for my father's 50th birthday, which will be on Wednesday. This also meant an opportunity to do some other shopping I've been meaning to, with the exception of the Big Damn Soundtrack, which isn't even in the ruttin' country yet.
Grr.
So! I started with a toy shop, mostly because I wanted to. I have managed to find the only toy shop in the 'verse that doesn't. have. dinosaurs. This part of my plan wasn't a complete waste, since I saw a wondrous sight on the back wall of a DVD shoppe.
A wondrous sight indeed! There, on the back wall, sixteen copies of the Firefly box set, all waiting for people to buy them. This is especially good news, seeing as how it means that there's some on this side of the world again. The exchange went something like:
Me: I don't think I've ever seen that many of the Firefly box set in one place.
Sales assistant: We got 70 of them in yesterday; all the rest were for orders, and the distributor's finally got copies.
Me: (thinks: OMJWTFsqueeeee!) *dies from happiness*i
This instantly set me up to be happy all day. Wheeeeeeee!
But, there's more. There's a bookshop virtually next door, and I've been looking for the fifth book of
jimbutcher's Dresden Files seriesii for a week or two now. And, they had it! I've started reading it, but only in short bursts so that I don't magically run out of book and then suddenly come back down from my literary high.And with that, it was off to actually do some presenty shopping. This is where I add a note about me: I like to buy things that'll be fun or amusing, but generally not horribly expensivev. There were four elements to my cunning plan; I'll address each in turn.
Liquorice allsorts are pretty much his favourite confectionery ever. And, they're sold in kilogram bags. Kilogram bags of liquorice allsorts have a side effect of making me want to buy buckets of M&Ms to sit on my desk.
The next thing was a cane. When folk start getting a bit old, and all. It doesn't have a vertical cane, but it was somewhat fun to do the rest of my shopping with a cane.
Everyone needs a hobby. Some peoples' hobbies include impossible jigsaw puzzles, which makes things fun when you frequent the kinds of places that sell impossible jigsaw puzzles. Alas, no double-sided ones; I settled for a borderless puzzle largely made up of coffee beans, with extra pieces. I'm somewhat tempted to open the box, swap the bag of puzzle pieces for a bag of liquorice allsorts, replace the tape on the box, and declare that mine is an evil laughvi.
And, there's the obligatory Somewhat Strange Item™. This time, it's a miniature billiard table with little balls and sticks and everything.
And this put me $5 shy of what I needed to spend for a free $17 quote mug. So, being me, I decided to find something to spend $5 on. My solution? A $7 tub of little plastic dinosaurs. While too small for a serious version of This Land, they'll fit neatly on my desk for a space-saving display I'll call This Miniature Land. And, I got my choice of quote mug. My pick?
Please pretend to be surprised. Pleeaase?Life is too important to be taken seriously
- Oscar Wilde
- Seriously, what other response is there? At least 50 copies ordered within the last month? Squeee! Yay fandom!
- All kinds of fun to read, in my opinion.iii
- Especially since I've just managed to force myself to get through all of Naked Empireiv which, despite being far from new, had to wait for (a) an appropriately-sized paperback release, and (b) my reading options to become truly desperate.
- Dear Terry,
Enough of the gorramn preachifyin' already. And enough with the cavalcade of Sues. Please stop making it look like you're writing bad fanfic, otherwise I'll have to beat you about the head with Anne Rice.
Neither of us wants that.
With hope you'll fix the many errors of your ways,active_apathy - This is partly for budgetary reasons, and partly because it can be so very fun. I doubt that many of you would describe me as terribly normal, so I'm sure you might almost be able to imagine how this turns up.
- Such a useful little line, that.
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Date: 2005-10-27 08:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 08:13 am (UTC)(As a side note, if you wanna talk author-hate, I'd like to beat Piers Anthony about the head with something. Something heavy.)
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Date: 2005-10-27 08:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 08:22 am (UTC)(I'll admit having a weird fondness for Dan Brown's stuff, but he's still a lousy writer with lousy characters.)
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Date: 2005-10-27 08:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 08:25 am (UTC)Yay violence!
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Date: 2005-10-27 08:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 09:51 am (UTC)Perhaps there is someone less febrile to beat PA with?
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:55 am (UTC)George
ARRR Martin?no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 10:08 am (UTC)A Game of Thrones? Interesting. Rather a more detailed than is usually my taste.
I then tried to read the second book. I made it thoruhg about three pages before the detail killed my brain and it just went "Umm... right. Nosensetoomuchdetailnaptimekthx."
Dear authors,
When writing a sequel, if you mention a detail from another book that's important to the story you're telling now, don't rely on the other book.
Offer a little, tiny bit of explanation. Not enough to irritate those who remember the world you so obviously obsess over, but enough that it makes sense if you ever actually get on with telling the story.
With boundless optimism,
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 05:21 pm (UTC)With your favorite drink.
We'll save the fiery toasting for the marshmallows I brought.
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Date: 2005-10-27 05:25 pm (UTC)But, it never hurts to make sure.
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Date: 2005-10-27 06:02 pm (UTC)Obviously I have not watched The Train Job enough times.
*goes off to reinforce quirky dialogue recognition*
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Date: 2005-10-28 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 11:28 pm (UTC)