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One of our dining room chairs broke last night. The seat split. The seat and back area a single piece of contoured plastic, so I don't see any way to repair the dratted thing. This leaves us with a lot of folding chairs (which I find very uncomfortable) and one wooden chair that is reasonably comfortable. We bought the wooden chair and the plastic chair (two of those, actually, but the second broke more than a year ago) from IKEA years ago after I went there and sat in every chair I could find. Those two models were the only two I rated at four out of five for comfort. There wasn't anything I gave a five.

Someone signed up to do art for my WIP Big Bang fic, so I really, really have to finish the dratted thing. I'm just not sure how well I'll do with it. I've got so many chores that must be done, and Cordelia's around constantly, and... Today, I need to change the sheets, run the dishwasher, wash my clothes and the sheets I take off the bed (the sheets can wait for tomorrow if they have to. The clothes can't because I'm wearing my last clean shirt). I also need to do all of the yard sale preparation today because tomorrow will be taken up by other things and Wednesday (I hope) Scott's parents will come down to get the stuff and Cordelia.

I also have a fairly long list of things that I need to work on, a few minutes at a time, for quite a while. Sorting and shelving things we're keeping, pulling things we're not (I'd like to do all of that immediately, but realistically, I can't). Sorting through bins of junk in the living room, basement, and Cordelia's room to see what we can throw away and then finding homes for things we're keeping. I need to get Cordelia to cooperate with the work on her room, and I think that will be hard even if I'm only asking for ten minutes at a time.

I was expecting Cordelia to be out of the house by now because she said she was going to visit a friend. Another friend, however, has come to visit, and they're watching Age of Ultron. That friend brought lunch. I think they're heading out to the other friend's house at some point (by bus!), but I don't know for sure. I'm still hoping they'll go because even an hour to myself would be golden.

The other in transit library holds didn't end up coming in until this morning, so we won't need a mid-week trip to the library after all. That's a help.

I'm trying to weed my iTunes library. There're a lot of albums in there that I don't actually care about at all. I've listened to them half a dozen times without connecting to any of the songs. I expect I could listen to them half a dozen times more and still not connect. Most of them are things that are just fine in terms of my musical taste, but, if I'm not planning to listen to them again, why keep them on my hard drive? I've got almost 9000 songs on my laptop. Maybe 200 of them are audiobook tracks that I will delete after I listen to them, but much of the rest is stuff that I haven't listened to in two or more years. Some of that, I still want to keep, but I'm trying to evaluate everything, case by case.

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I'm wanting to get rid of some CLAMP anime DVDs. There are three of them, and they all seem to be going for about $10, used, on eBay and/or Amazon. If I sell them through Books By Chance and they go for that amount (plus shipping), I'll get about $3.50. So I was thinking that, if anyone here wants one of these for $5 plus shipping, I'd be willing to send it. I'm not sure what shipping would cost, but in the US, I'd expect it to be under $3 per DVD (looks like, if I was sending one of these to my father in New Mexico, it would be $3.02 for first class and $2.61 for media mail). I'm not convinced that it would be worth the cost of shipping to send these outside the US (sending to Canada, for example, seems to start at $41. I may be putting some sort of detail in wrong, but... That's one heck of a mark up).

I have the following:

RG Veda. This is the US Manga version with the heavily red cover. It's subbed and dubbed. There are DVD-ROM features, but I have no idea if they'll even play on current computers. The box says they need Windows 95 or higher or OS 7.5 or higher, but how much higher is higher?

Rayearth. This is the standalone DVD from Manga Video. I'm not sure if I'd call the primary color of the cover blue or purple. It's subbed and dubbed. It has a small poster inside.

Miyuki-chan in Wonderland. This is an ADV Films DVD. Subbed only. The show is only thirty minutes long and marketed as 15+.

If more than one person is interested in a given DVD, I'll use some sort of random number generator to decide. I seem to recall that there are websites that do that.