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Hm. I think I can't trust the facts in this supposedly non-fiction DVD (a biography of Charles Wesley). One of the first assertions is that the high infant/child mortality of the era was entirely due to parental neglect which, um, no. There were a lot of other reasons for that in the eighteenth century.

I ought to go over to Cordelia's school and pick up the ibuprofen I left in the office back in March. Cordelia didn't take any of it, so the bottle should still be unopened. If I don't retrieve it, they'll throw it out. It won't take long to do it. It's just that I'm still utterly worn out.

I've got three library DVDs that I haven't finished (including the biography I'm watching now). One has a two week check out period and so isn't due until a week from Sunday. The other two can be renewed because there's no one else asking for them.

I slept until 10:00 this morning and only woke up then because we got a spam phone call. I tried to nap a little bit ago, but my brain wouldn't stop moving enough to let me. I feel really, really exhausted and am not sure what to do about it. Cordelia will be bringing at least three friends home with her after school, and they'll all be around for hours. Cordelia refused to talk to us about getting food for her guests. They're planning to go to the ice cream social at the school and have ice cream, but that's not dinner, and it won't keep them for six hours.

I really ought to move yard sale stuff out of the living room before Cordelia and her friends come home, but I'm not sure I'm up to it. We'll take a load of stuff up to Scott's parents' house tomorrow because Scott and his father want to golf tomorrow. That will work better in the morning because the forecast is for temperatures in the 90s. I'm just not sure how that fits with Scott returning the cable stuff. He hasn't been willing to make the effort to cross town with it after work this week, and I doubt very much that he will next week. I don't think that I could do it, partly because of anxiety, partly because of the difficulties of getting there with the equipment, and partly because my name isn't on the account.

Scott wants me to search online to find out if any of the VHS tapes and DVDs that I want to get rid of are worth anything. I can see doing that with the DVDs because Books By Chance will sell those. I don't think they'll handle VHS, however, and I'm not willing to try to do it myself. Fortunately, none of the VHS tapes so far is worth more than about $7. I did a generic search on the Disney VHS and found the internet myth that those are worth lots of money. Fortunately, it was clearly a myth, so I didn't get my hopes up. Searching DVDs and VHS tapes is made harder by the fact that there's not something like an ISBN that I can use. Finding dates on those is pretty challenging, too.

I've got three VHS tapes that I'm pretty sure are fansubs but that I hadn't realized were until I started looking around. The cases have artwork and fancy printing and such, but there's no company name or blurbs or anything, and there's nothing printed on the tapes themselves, just a little sticky label with the series name and episode numbers. I couldn't find them anywhere on Amazon or Ebay, and I take that as more evidence of them being fansubs. I'm not sure of the ethics of putting those in a yard sale. I can't find evidence of a commercial release, but it might have happened under a different title. Anybody know? Anybody want these for the cost of shipping?

ETA: I suppose it would help if I said what the fansubs are. Oops. I thought I had said. They're Ah My Goddess mini episodes, twenty four of them, eight to a tape. How did I manage not to specify the title?

I'm wanting to get rid of a complete set of the FAKE manga. I don't think I can put it in the yard sale because, if Scott's parents look too closely, they're likely to freak. Fortunately, I think the Friends of the Library will be happy to take them. (I did search those carefully since some editions seem to be worth a bit of money, but none of these ISBNs matched to anything worth even as much as $1 a volume.) If anyone reading this wants the set and is willing to pay postage, I'd be happy to send it your way.

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Ooooh, have you any idea how much shipping to Germany might be? Because I'd rather like those FAKE mangas! It's the one classic of it's genre that I somehow never managed to read, despite reading rather a lot of BL during my teens.

The postal service website says $34 if I can fit them all into a small, flat rate box. That's based on my estimate that they weigh about 8 oz each, adding up to 3.5 pounds (Amazon says that v.1 is 7.6 oz, so I rounded up and multiplied). The small boxes are meant for up to 4 pounds, so it's a matter of the space required, and I'm bad at imagining that.

If I don't use a flat rate box at all, the shipping goes up to at least $70. If I need a medium flat rate box, shipping is $67. Medium boxes are meant to go up to 20 pounds.

The volumes are under $1 each (v.1 starts at 47 cents), used, on Amazon US. I have no idea what shipping would be like for that or if someone in Germany can order those, but it would probably be a good idea to compare prices even if $34 shipping sounds reasonable.

I'm not sure of the ins and outs of customs fees, but the value of the books, taken together, would be under $7 US, and I would label it as a gift.

Hmm, yeah, doesn't look like it's worth it, alas! But thanks a lot for doing all the math :)

It's a drag that you're so exhausted. How are you supposed to get all tis stuff done when you're wiped out all the time?

I think that today's exhaustion is largely hangover from yesterday's emotional difficulties. Eating a baked potato and a bowl of instant oatmeal helped a lot.

But having someone medical address the tiredness would be spectacular. Only one ever has, and her best option was pharmaceutical (Provigil) and didn't actually help.

When the Provigil didn't help why didn't they look for something else that might? It must be frustrating.

Well, she considered Nuvigil, which is stronger, but I couldn't tolerate Provigil at more than half of the smallest available pill/dose. We didn't want to go to more usual stimulants because of side effects-- I spend my time right on the edge of my body falling apart due to anxiety-- and risk of addiction and so on.

I also don't have any solid diagnosis that would justify her even having prescribed Provigil (my primary insurance company certainly kicked up a huge fuss over it).

Parental neglect? Boggle!

Can you do chicken patties or pizza or something for the kids?

Ooh, what are the fansubs? I want them for sentimental reasons, but considering I don't even have a VCR we know how sensible that idea is.
Can you have stuff at the yardsale that's just free?

I want the FAKE set too, but again, I shouldn't. I have boxes of stuff like that (Haru wo Daiteita, etc.) that I don't want to get rid of, but am unsure of my husband's reaction if he ever goes through them, haha.

Oops. I really thought I said what the fansubs were. Sorry about that (I've edited the post to say). They're Ah My Goddess mini episodes, eight per tape, three tapes.

I know what you mean about having too much stuff. I'm fortunate-- My husband looks at this stuff and is like, "Whatever appeals to you."

Your husband's attitude is exactly the right one!

Ah My Goddess - how nostalgic. Lovely art, but I never really liked the main characters personally.