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Richard Book is Innocent ([personal profile] oxfordtweed) wrote2010-08-06 11:32 am

Today was interesting.

It's not even midday, but today's been fairly interesting.

This morning, I decided that I'm sick of having more DVDs than I have shelves. So, I loaded up as many DVDs as I could manage (still leaving at least half of the collection on the shelves), and took them down to the pawn shop. At 50ยข each, I came home with $130. Holy fuck, that was a lot of DVDs. And now I have space for even more!

lol not. Netflix has eaten our souls, and that's where we've been getting most of our movies from. The only DVDs I've purchased lately are the sorts of things even Netflix won't carry.


On my way to the pawn shop, my dad rang me, because his Blu-Ray player has fucked up, making it impossible to get to Netflix (because I totally got him addicted last month. Whoops). Since I was lugging a bunch of DVDs to the pawn shop, I told him I'd call him when I got home. When that came about, he was apparently still having issues with it. My dad is one of the most technologically inept people on the planet. It so bad. So after about a half hour of getting nowhere, I just told him to turn off his power strip. His modem, as well as the BD Player (amongst a few other things, but they are not important right now) are plugged into it, so we pretty much killed two birds with one stone and rebooted both the modem and the BD Player at once.

I'm not sure which it was, but one of them was the problem. Netflix is working again. And now, he knows why the red button on his power strip is useful.


And now, I am going shopping. I hope that I don't explode.

[identity profile] foldedtowels.livejournal.com 2010-08-06 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I did that recently, except I bought a ps3 with the money left over. It was quite refreshing to get all the old crap I was embarrased of off the shelves.

I'm terrible at mathematics so I can't even calculate how many dvd's you had. The number my brain had produced is 'loads'

[identity profile] mr-x-indeed.livejournal.com 2010-08-06 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's not even that I was embarrassed by any of it (except maybe Karate Cop. But everyone should be embarrassed by that one). I just don't have room for 100s of DVDs everywhere. lol

[identity profile] ladytayla.livejournal.com 2010-08-10 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
That's why I use the folders you put 100 cds in and it's the size of a photo album.