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Shopping Spree

My Newest Neatest Books

I have finally accumulated enough bookstore gift certificates (that's the credit card hook we have) so that I could go out and drop all ninety bucks of 'em on something I've been lusting after for quite a while now: "The Complete Far Side". It is massive. Each book is about 15 inches tall and 10 inches wide, weighing in at a good 10 pounds (20 pounds total for the set). If I were rich and foolish, I'd have gotten the signed leather-bound edition for $800! As it was, the set was a little over $100, so my certificates didn't quite cover it.

These books are so massive, it isn't really all that comfortable to hold them in my lap, but I will find a way, even if I have to sit at a desk to read them. I'm going to savor these books for many months to come. I also spent some old Best Buy gift cards I had left over from my birthday and a DVD return to buy the other two CD's in the "Lord of the Rings" soundtrack trilogy (I got "The Two Towers" for my birthday from Michelle).

So it was nice to satisfy a couple of wants I've been thinking about for a long time now, and I hardly had to spend any money to do it! I also helped all three kids at the library find some fresh books to read. They've been sticking to the same authors for a while, and it has grown stale, especially for Cody, who has now gone through my entire Calvin and Hobbes collection at least four times over the past month. He asked me once why Calvin's dad lies to Calvin. He didn't think that was very nice. Heh, I do the same thing to the kids sometimes, making silly stuff up as explanations to answer their questions, always in my most authoritative professor voice, and if they believe it, I just keep adding weirder and weirder stuff until they realize I'm kidding.

Oh yeah, speaking of obsessions of mine, they just announced the name last night for Episode III of the six movie set, due to come out in May 2005: "Revenge of the Sith"

Posted by Observer at July 25, 2004 07:57 AM