Saturday, March 18, 2006

An expensive day... Started out my afternoon topping off the tank in my car (just in case gas goes up even more in the next couple days) - $2.63/gal (11 gallons) McKay's used bookstore ($16) - a couple books and a used DVD Liquor store (the one across the street from the Toys-r-Us that is in the shopping center with the Knoxvegas Barnes-n-Noble. It's the one I usually go to.) Had to restock the "liquor cabinet" -- I don't have a lot of alcohol in my apt. but what I had was running low. Didn't buy what I planned to... they had it (Yukon Jack - a Canadian honey/whiskey liqueur) only in some small plastic bottle (ick! extreme tackiness to buy your alcohol in plastic) or a huge 1.5 litre size. It would take me literally years to drink that. So I bought the Wild Turkey equivalent. Actually a very different flavor (and a much lower alcohol content). Bought some sherry and Irish cream also. $35 Went to CompUSA and bought (for $152 including sales tax): A replacement mouse (a small USB one for a laptop - my powerbook can do Bluetooth but I'm not ready to fork over $50 for a cordless mouse and THEN have to feed it batteries on a regular basis.) TurboTax (Really need to do my taxes!) iLife (contributing to Apple's bottom line. Part of the yearly Mac-tax (Mac OS X and iLife have yearly updates and I never seem to qualify for the upgrade and have to buy them new if I want to stay current. My new powerbook came with iLife 5 but iLife 6 came out just over a month later - outside the free upgrade window) Best Buy for a copy of "Howl's Moving Castle" -- $27 (Another Disney produced 'Studio Gibli' film. This one was nominated for an Academy award like 'Spirited Away' but didn't win. I almost bought 'Najica' (another anime girl-assassin series - sort of like Noir) - I saw a DVD at MacKay's but it was mid-series. Best Buy had the entire series in a boxed set... but I couldn't get past the embarrassing (to me anyway) description on the box. It touted the 'fan service' (though that isn't how they said it) present in the series. I couldn't imagine handing it over to a checkout clerk. Good thing I got paid last week.... 8:28:09 PM    Notes []

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