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Megan got me Real Genius on DVD for graduation! :) So, obviously, I wanted to sit down and watch it immediately. I am, however, a very busy boy. I worked today from 8am until 10pm. Unfortunate, no? So, I did the only logical thing. I:

• Put the DVD in my computer when I woke up in the morning,
• Set the uncompressed files to copy from the DVD to my spare hard drive while I was showering,
• Used VNC from work to connect to my home system and compress the 4GBs worth of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files into a single 700MB DivX (MPEG-4) file,
• Burned the DivX to a CD the moment I got home from my first job,
• Installed the DivX codecs on my linux box at work, and
• Watched my movie on my computer at work in the lull between calls.

What? Like any of you would have done anything different? *g*

After the movie was over, I spent the rest of my time surfing the net. By the time 10pm rolled around, I was browsing the selection of vintage clothing on eBay. Yeesh. I’m very worried that I won’t be able to resist the temptation to spend $25 on clothes that were only worth $5 thirty years ago. :) Perhaps I should take a trip to Goodwill this weekend in an attempt to prevent the inevitable. I desperately want some 70’s clothes to wear to parties and whatnots.