I heard about a good deal Office Depot was having this week on blank Maxell DVDs and even though I had 150 blanks left, 75% off list price was too good a deal to pass up so I ordered 200. As my friends know, I never pay more than 20 cents per dvd, often far less than that (with no stupid rebates, either). I’ve tried all kinds of media and really like Office Depot’s store brand, especially since they constantly go on sale for $7.99 for 50 every month or so. However, that being said, I couldn’t resist the Maxell’s they had on sale this week for $6 a 50 pack (which comes to 12 cents per DVD); a great deal.

After being notified my order was ready at the store for pickup I got in my car (sorry, no teleporter, it’s broken) and got my 200 Maxells (total = 25.48 w/the tax). Not bad at all! I thanked the cashier and headed out the door with a smile. After loading my nice find of cheap good DVDs, I remembered passing a few clearance carts and thought it best to go have a look.

Which is a good thing too, because what did I find? 3 100 packs of Imation brand DVD +Rs for $2 a pop and a 2 gigabyte Kingston Readyboost enabled thumb drive for $10!

I was a little shocked at my newfound booty and even asked the cashier if the prices were correct in the clearance carts, which she confirmed. “Yes sir,” she said, “we’re having a large clearance to get rid of some merchandise.”

Still a tad shocked at my even better fortune I lifted up the DVDs and said “these are really $2 each?” (head nod from cashier) “and this is really $10?” (another head nod.)

So I put the stuff on the counter, she rung up my 300 DVDs for $6 and my 2GB Thumb Drive for $10 and off I went even happier than when I picked up my 200 Maxell DVDs for $25 about four minutes ago!

I really don’t think I’ll be needing any more blank DVDs for a loooong time…

THANK YOU OFFICE DEPOT!

UPDATE: Went back to the same store two days later (today) and snagged 2 USB Hard Drive Enclosures (normally priced $35) for $2 each! Me likies their $2 cart big-time!

[In today’s first installment of a new series of posts called What’s Wrong With, we’re going to discuss Vegans… and what’s wrong with them. We fully expect this article series to be as fact-filled, educational and insightful as all our other series such as Shut Up I’m Right, The Sun Isn’t Hot When It’s Dark Out, Cheese Is Way Stronger than Steel, You Make Me Keep Hitting You, Sharks Just Want to Play with Your Liver and Flash Cards Make Your Kid Stupider.]

So let’s get to it.

What’s Wrong with Vegans is that no matter how many vegetables they eat, they’re still made out of meat. Tasty, tasty meat. No matter how many bad parts are removed in surgeries (or bear attacks), no matter how much non-meat products they consume they are… meat. Nutritious, red, chewy, delectable, tasty meat.

A Vegan is a walking, talking meat stick. That hates meat. They’re a lie if you will; a talking piece o’meat that shares their wonderful vegetable and non-meat product lifestyle while ignoring their nature and what makes them who they are; meat. Wonderful, glorious, juicy meat. They’re meat that talks bad about itself. Which is just plain sick.

If you hate yourself that bad, Vegans then where is all the effort to genetically engineer your meat bodies into daffodils or tofu? Otherwise, you’re just sentient, living meat spewing lies. Don’t be meat, Vegans. Don’t be meat. Tasty, tasty, wonderful, joyously delicious meat. *drool*

And that’s folks is What’s Wrong with Vegans (they’re lying meat.)

You’re very, very welcome.

The tales of my demise have been slightly exaggerated. It was a rough night last night, due to a totally serious case of upset tummy hurts owie. I got about a total of 2 hours sleep COMBINED when my upset tum-tum lost it’s fight for structural integrity.

[Decription not even attempted, you want kid-like gross festivals, go find the original Ren and Stimpy episodes that used to air on Nickelodeon]

Needless despite my feeling totally exhausted, shaky and overtired to painful levels, I did feel better and managed to get another hour of sleep. Yay, me! And by yay, me! I mean this bites and I’m definitely going to have fun re-introducing a shaky digestive system to things like tea, water, bread and chicken broth. Fun! Fun! Fun!

Well, it was right after feeling better and reeling my stomach lining back into the inside of my body that I noticed how I looked and stumbled my weak bod to grab my camera and take this photo. And damn if that doesn’t really look like the coolest new avatar for me to use all over the net, dontchathink?

I’m sick. I’m overtired. I’m weak and exhausted but I’m still me in the end.

And I now know what Flaming Hot Cheetos bits look like after digestion… win-win!

ZZzzzzzzzzz… zzzzzzzzzzzz… zzzzzzzz…

Things I Lament by Vincent Navarino

That no one claps in movie theaters anymore
That Mozilla, with a small amount of success has adopted the arrogance and mistakes of Microsoft
That the Parker’s Creme Soda I recently purchased sucks and I still have 2 cans left
That for all their squawk Linux still can’t come up with a game as simple and popular as Bejeweled
That the woman from Dateline’s To Catch a Predator won’t return my calls. She’s H-O-T hot!
That no online TV guide (hear me Zap2It) will fill my screen’s width and show me more hours per page
That the people who play their car stereos loud never play my kind of music or drive by slow enough for my trebuchet
That most people that read this blog have to click this link to find out what the %^$#@ a trebuchet is
That people who drive hybrids are poisoning our earth with far more dangerous substances than fuel emissions
That right after I had my car washed leaf blowers attacked my car
That Blockbuster Online only has one copy of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country to share w/a few million subscribers
That not enough people know about LOLCATS or ICANHASCHEEZBURGER
That there is no native or external proper support for dual monitors (dialog boxes should never open in the center of two monitors in stretched mode, stupid-heads!)
That skins don’t work if you use a later version of software
That the FX channel’s program schedule is as reliable as US Air (Riches is 60-78 min. long depending on the week?! $%#@ you!)
That I am not, right now, sitting down and munching on Mexican food w/my friends
That keyboards are not designed to explode when someone holds down the SHIFT key for too long
That cable channels beep! out obscenities. That was the promise *of* having cable in the first place!
That people used to be honest about being racists. At least you used to know who they were, now they all went underground and are much harder to find and corral. Except Mel Gibson.
That the Amber Alert does not apprise people of the monetary valuation / fluctuations of amber on the world market.
After freeing Keiko the killer whale and letting her live out her life in the open sea they buried her on land. Bastards!
That free puppies and kittens aren’t free. Even the ones they give away in cardboard boxes
That Mozart couldn’t hear his greatest works
That Blockbuster doesn’t have Howard the Duck *sniff*
That John Travolta can’t convince the studios to film Battlefield Earth 2
That I have so many things to lament
That more people don’t know me so they can love (or loathe) me
That I have never been sexually harassed in the work place
That every time you take your eyes off the TV, the channel you were looking for scrolls off the screen and you have to watch the TV guide all over again
That everyone has a stronger inferiority complex than me
That global warming won’t hurry up; I’m freaking cold
No matter how hard I try I can’t completely idiot-proof a computer from a complete idiot
That Stephen Colbert has still not sent me any of his AmeriCone Dream ice cream. I’ve been a loyal member of the Colbert Nation since the beginning, Stephen; is this how you treat your minions? Eh, comrade?
(moving on)
I finally lament that due to Stephen’s ignoring one of his most loyal followers by not sending me any of his ice cream, that I no longer have the strength or will to continue this lamenting post; I’m so sad right now that all I believed in is a lie (Stephen Colbert and his generosity towards his followers) that I have to end this post. *sniff* I really could use some ice cream right now…