short takes
May. 6th, 2003 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioIt figures. Yesterday I saw that one of Amazon's affiliates had the second season of B5 for $50 (which is about half of the list price, though copies are easy to find at about $70). So I ordered it. An hour later another affiliate showed up with it for $40. Oh well. Then today another affiliate showed up with it for $26! But I've already ordered it, so too late now. And the memories of chasing the best price and nearly getting burned through half.com are still fresh, so I'm not going to feel too bad about missing out on the $26 copy. (They all claim to be new copies, by the way.)
We're most of the way through the first season. Tonight we watched "Grail" and "Eyes", along with the JMS commentary on "Signs and Portents".
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lefkowitzga came over and we traded Hebrew tutoring for illunination tutoring. It was fun! She has a good hand for painting, too. (I don't, especially. I'm pretty good at design, but my implementation has always been so-so.)
My neice is graduating from high school next month. I wonder what an appropriate gift is. She's been pestering her mother for a laptop computer, which is way beyond her mother's means. She's not going to get it from me, either, but she hasn't dropped any smaller hints. (I was really thinking closer to $100 than the $1000+ that would be required to fulfill that wish...) I don't like giving gift certificates, but that might be the best move. When all else fails, feed the book habit. :-)
We're most of the way through the first season. Tonight we watched "Grail" and "Eyes", along with the JMS commentary on "Signs and Portents".
Last night
lefkowitzga came over and we traded Hebrew tutoring for illunination tutoring. It was fun! She has a good hand for painting, too. (I don't, especially. I'm pretty good at design, but my implementation has always been so-so.)My neice is graduating from high school next month. I wonder what an appropriate gift is. She's been pestering her mother for a laptop computer, which is way beyond her mother's means. She's not going to get it from me, either, but she hasn't dropped any smaller hints. (I was really thinking closer to $100 than the $1000+ that would be required to fulfill that wish...) I don't like giving gift certificates, but that might be the best move. When all else fails, feed the book habit. :-)
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Date: 2003-05-06 08:50 pm (UTC)Flatterer
Date: 2003-05-07 07:49 am (UTC)RE: the graduation gift, while I normally do not advocate the cash arrangement, for an occasion such as a graduation contributions towards a large ticket item seem appropriate. Adulthood requires many large ticket items. That way, she can put your gift into her laptop fund if desired.