I like taxes in principle. I just don't like paying mine.

I'll take your blank VHS tapes, Jessica. My VCR is hooked up in the office and I have no plans to change that arrangement. (God, I'm old, aren't I?)

Last year, I finally accepted that I will never again possess a VHS player. Ever. So I threw out all the tapes I owned. Except I just checked, and it turns out I did keep exactly five tapes - A friend's demo reel, the only copy I have of a short film I worked on, and the original Star Wars Trilogy, in their unpolluted forms.

I know why I decided to keep those tapes, I just don't understand how that reason exempts them from the whole I'll never again possess a playback device for them thing.

I like taxes in principle. I just don't like paying mine.

This is similar to how I feel about bills. I hate paying them, but I do love it when they have been paid.

I really need to get a VHS-to-DVD transfer device thingy, because I have tapes with irreplaceable content, deteriorating in drawers as I type.

I just don't understand how that reason exempts them from the whole I'll never again possess a playback device for them thing.

You can bring them over to my house with its functional VCR. (With which I Tivoed goth videos off 120 Minutes and compiled them for Jilli.)

Obviously, this is a decision each person has to make for themselves, but the irreplaceable content on the VHS tapes I had? I decided wasn't worth the effort to retrieve.

From a rejection email I just received:

"While you were certainly among the highly qualified candidates who applied for a position with our firm, I regret to inform you... [blah blah]."

I was certainly among the candidates who applied! Woo-hoo! Time to take the day off to celebrate my belongingness!

Yeah, I did a ton of burning dvds from old vhs tapes. But now my dvd burner is broken. (We go through those things like candy.) So until we put priority on replacing it, there it sits. But we should because I have a lot of tapes taking up a lot of space and it would be much better on dvds, or Better Still, on a hard drive. Especially as we are getting a roommate again (an intern) and his room is the media room, where all that stuff is stored. Which reminds me, I need to order some stuff for the attic to make the storage platform up there.

I hate you all so much. I have a ton to accomplish this afternoon, and after holding out for like two weeks, I finally got sucked into rereading old Beauracraxy threads. I have no time for this!

And I'm a little surprised impressed how much I was keeping my mouth shut in the Rafmun kerfuffle. Maybe I was out of town.