My mom offered to take the DVD player, and as I told her, I can't guarantee that it'll work with their old TV, but mine is worse than theirs and the store lady didn't say it would be a problem, so it might. OTOH, my trust in that store lady is not high right now. Does anyone know if there's a problem mixing new DVD/Blu-Ray players with old TVs? ( ( Read more... )

So, my computer has been giving me all kinds of trouble lately (probably related to the time it spend in a freezing cold moving van), and since I'm now working full time I haven't got the time to get it sent in for repairs, not to mention that part of the problem is that it's now reeeeeallllly slooooow in things like making backup, and backup would ( Read more... )

In the LJ-side comments on my previous post, nefariouscory mentioned the Book Depository as a good way to get cheap imported books.

I now have the following in my basket:

Howl's Moving Castle and Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones (I've read both, but I only own the former in translation and the latter not at all.)
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Long Juju Man ( Read more... )

I decided I wanted a Librarian Action Figure. After checking a whole bunch of sites that wouldn't ship to Sweden, and Ebay that wouldn't even let me in since it's been so long since I created the account (they claimed they'd call but then didn't, meh), I found that it was available in the amazon marketplace. A deluxe model with international ( Read more... )

I have finished the first draft of my Heroes vid. Whew. I feel this fully justifies the fact that I've been pretty much constantly using my computer since I got it back ( Read more... )

Busy Saturday! I ran around town for hours. First I picked up three pairs of glasses because I couldn't decide in the store. (In my head, I've dubbed them "nice girl", "career bitch" and "culture lady". All three of them are pretty, but I'm just not sure which I'd prefer. *g*) Then I had lunch with my mom. Then I bought some presents to people. ( Read more... )

I've become addicted to cafepress.com. It started when a member of the librarian mailing list I'm on sent a link to the curmudgeony librarian super store, and then it snowballed from there ( Read more... )

The discshop.se advertising magazine arrived today, and I clearly have no concept of money, because I went straight to their website and ordered three movies. Three. Fame, But I'm a Cheerleader, and Interstate 60 - the last of which I haven't even seenI think the reason I was tempted was because my study loans arrived today. But I still shouldn't ( Read more... )

Today, I got vaccinated against tuberculosis. Having read the note on the effects of said vaccine (I'll get a hardened bump that'll burst and leak puss and heal and it'll all take about three months) I decided I needed some cheering up. So I ordered season 1 of Angel from dvdboxoffice.com. Nearly 500 Swedish kronor (85 Canadian dollars, for those ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we had a new teacher. Skinny guy, thick dark hair, pale skin, prominent nose, leather jacket and an Irish accent. Anyone want to guess what his surname was? *grin ( Read more... )