This past weekend revisited, with comments

• Got reasonable tickets to visit parents in Taiwan in December.
  
  "Unreasonable" is defined as having to spend in excess of $2000, or having to sleep overnight at JFK and catch a 5am flight.
  
  
• Bought cheap CDs of Telemann, Liszt, Gershwin, and Vivaldi (with a li'l Bach [still J.S.] on the side).
  
  My classical music collection is growing by leaps and bounds, mostly because I get distracted if I listen to music with voices when I'm working.
  
  
• Drooled and watched in disgust as lokiect's PowerBook ripped my CDs at 12x, four times faster than my six-year-old machine.
  
  Yeah, yeah, I should get a new machine :)
  
  
• Laughed at The Grudge with sculder, lokiect, and Antonio. Teenage girls who scream make the movie; little kids who talk and make random noises break the movie.
  
  I'm amused that Japanese uses the older form 呪 of the character 咒. But I bet I'm the only one entertained by this.