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Jun. 29th, 2008 09:38 amThursday I went and got my driver's license renewed. That was a long wait (not surprising of course). When I went in there was a teller just for renewals, but she was on 90 and I was 108. Twenty minutes later she was still on 90. But after she got through whatever problem that guy presented, things went faster, and between 100 and 108 there were at least four people who had given up and left. I was there about 1 hour and 10 or 20 minutes.
The sucky part was I didn't bring anything to read, and I left my iPod headphones at home. But I survived.
Saturday I drove up to Half Price Books in the U District. My idea was to see if they had any Bruckner that might be worth picking up used. I'd checked Southcenter Half Price Books a week ago and found nothing. Well, this Half PRice Books had the mother load -- at least 30, maybe 40 different Bruckner cds, every symphony but #1 and the two unnumbered symphonies, the Te Deum, and even the string quartet. Most were by conductors I wasn't familiar with or ones I recognized but not as Brucker conductors, but I picked out 3 cds conducted by Jochum and Wand that should be quite good. I also picked up Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony, which I've always wanted to own -- she not only wrote one of the first American symphonies, but (obviously I suppose), the first by an American woman.
I went through the rock section looking for some of the bands I've downloaded recently, but found nothing. Then I looked through the dollar bin and came across Dream Cake by Jale for $1.00. This was a Sub Pop band in the early 90's and I had recently downloaded one of their songs on the reccomendation of someone on Amazon.com who seemed to like the same kind of things I liked. So, that was my big score of the day. ^_^
I also found a few other things... Prince of Egypt for $1.00 (it has Ofra Haza on it but I'm still not sure if it was worth even a dollar), Grease soundtrack for $2.00, and I picked up and gave to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kehf three cds that I bought for a dollar each: Sarah McLaughlin's cd Solace, Hippjok by Hedningardna and Groove by Hoven Droven. Those are all good buys. ^_^
Plus I gave her a copy of the Jesus Christ Superstar recording done involving Amy Ray and Emily Saliers from Indigo Girls, which I found for $6.00 at Half Price Books in Southcenter a month or two ago.
Not too many people showed up for the Tai-Pan meeting, but we had quorum.typographer had chocolate angelfood cake and strawberries/raspberries for my and juliesong's birthday. I got a book about lefthandedness. ^_^
Alsomiertam had a different laptop for me to borrow. He's been trying to get a fan for my laptop (the fan died a month or two ago) and he'd given me his "backup" laptop (one of several actual laptops he has, mind you, but he doesn't count the Mac or the little ultra-portable new toy laptops). His backup laptop was old and good for writing and surfing the web, but not for playing games. The new one he had is massive -- it's got a 17" widescreen as big as my extra-wide flat screen in my bedroom. The problem with this is it makes the wole thing very big, and they didn't bother to use the extra space to expand the keyboard -- it still has a standard laptop keyboard, no number pad, just a lot of wasted space. It's a decently powerful computer though. I was able to run City of Heroes on it but even with the graphics turned all the way down it had some problems... but the laptop only has 512mb memory. I think if you bumped up the memory it would run very well.
The sucky part was I didn't bring anything to read, and I left my iPod headphones at home. But I survived.
Saturday I drove up to Half Price Books in the U District. My idea was to see if they had any Bruckner that might be worth picking up used. I'd checked Southcenter Half Price Books a week ago and found nothing. Well, this Half PRice Books had the mother load -- at least 30, maybe 40 different Bruckner cds, every symphony but #1 and the two unnumbered symphonies, the Te Deum, and even the string quartet. Most were by conductors I wasn't familiar with or ones I recognized but not as Brucker conductors, but I picked out 3 cds conducted by Jochum and Wand that should be quite good. I also picked up Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony, which I've always wanted to own -- she not only wrote one of the first American symphonies, but (obviously I suppose), the first by an American woman.
I went through the rock section looking for some of the bands I've downloaded recently, but found nothing. Then I looked through the dollar bin and came across Dream Cake by Jale for $1.00. This was a Sub Pop band in the early 90's and I had recently downloaded one of their songs on the reccomendation of someone on Amazon.com who seemed to like the same kind of things I liked. So, that was my big score of the day. ^_^
I also found a few other things... Prince of Egypt for $1.00 (it has Ofra Haza on it but I'm still not sure if it was worth even a dollar), Grease soundtrack for $2.00, and I picked up and gave to
kehf three cds that I bought for a dollar each: Sarah McLaughlin's cd Solace, Hippjok by Hedningardna and Groove by Hoven Droven. Those are all good buys. ^_^Plus I gave her a copy of the Jesus Christ Superstar recording done involving Amy Ray and Emily Saliers from Indigo Girls, which I found for $6.00 at Half Price Books in Southcenter a month or two ago.
Not too many people showed up for the Tai-Pan meeting, but we had quorum.
typographer had chocolate angelfood cake and strawberries/raspberries for my and juliesong's birthday. I got a book about lefthandedness. ^_^Also
miertam had a different laptop for me to borrow. He's been trying to get a fan for my laptop (the fan died a month or two ago) and he'd given me his "backup" laptop (one of several actual laptops he has, mind you, but he doesn't count the Mac or the little ultra-portable new toy laptops). His backup laptop was old and good for writing and surfing the web, but not for playing games. The new one he had is massive -- it's got a 17" widescreen as big as my extra-wide flat screen in my bedroom. The problem with this is it makes the wole thing very big, and they didn't bother to use the extra space to expand the keyboard -- it still has a standard laptop keyboard, no number pad, just a lot of wasted space. It's a decently powerful computer though. I was able to run City of Heroes on it but even with the graphics turned all the way down it had some problems... but the laptop only has 512mb memory. I think if you bumped up the memory it would run very well.
