Soledad's Journal

I've just realised that I've hardly posted anything else but update alerts since we came back from our holidays - which is mosty because I was having fun with the delightful ladies of picowrimo. It was an intense 2-months-session for me, as you could see from all the update alerts.

But there were other things happening, too, and now that I've actually survived the annual carpet washing insanity (which includes the complete emptying of various cupboards, so that they can be moved from their allotted places) I finally have both the time and the energy to pay attention to other things.

Be warned: this is going to be an ungodly long post, as I don't want to write several entries. You'll get it all in one, intimidating heap, assuming you want to read it. Hence the tags. *g*

( Starting with the Classic!Who wishlist )

Because I haven't updated these for at least 3 years, and in the meantime many things that were on the old lists have found their way into my possession. *g*

So, let's start with some old stuff I'm still looking for. There were, for starters, the:
Star Trek background books

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Still looking for the following outdated books, too:
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Visual media - which, basically, means DVDs in these days. Gotta get the stuff as long as it's available. Don't have the money to switch to BluRay.

( Sci-fi classics - because you simply can't beat them )

From classic sci-fi TV, I'm still looking for the original V-The Visitors series. I wasn't terribly impressed by the new version (what little I saw from it), and besides, that one pops up in supermarkets on sale sometimes. And I still haven't found anything beyond Season 1 of Earth - Final Conflict in Region 2 format. Grrrrr!

( Horror series )

So, wishlist has grown considerably again, and that still without the extended edition of the first Hobbit film (which will hopefully be available in Hungary), the 3rd season of Sherlock, coming somewhen in the next year, and the second Hobbit film. Also, I still have to list up the books of the DS9 relaunch series that I already have to see which ones I still happen to lack. So, yeah. Long list. But it has been 3 years, right?

Havent done that for a while, which is mostly because altariel and the_wild_iris, lovely and generous ladies as they are, have spoiled me so rotten that I had to catch up with the stuff they gifted upon me before the greed hit again. ;)

But you know me and my book-case of doom that extends into the fifth dimension to make room for more stuff (actually, by throwing out videotapes of series I bought on DVD in the meantime, but that's another matter entirely; what counts is the fact that I have some space to fill up again).

So, let's get started with the books.
It's a random selection of various interests, without any practicular order.
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Visual media - which, basically, means DVDs in these days. Gotta get the stuff as long as it's available. Don't have the money to switch to BluRay.
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So, I think I've got my shopping list for the next decade or so. *g* Now if I could only visit Vienna a bit more frequently...

In other words - an update of my wishlists. Which keep growing longer and longer, no matter how much more stuff I have gathered/been gifted upon.

Wishlist the First - Books
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Wishlist the second - Visual media... which means DVDs, in these days
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And that's it for today. I'm fairly certain that more will follow as the greed grows. ;)

So, I got a package of the size of, oh, the Lonely Mountain from the wonderful and generous lhun_dweller. Since Hungarian postal service doesn't deliver anything bigger than a matchbox to anyone's house, I had to go to the post office and fetch it.

Well, at least they hadn't thrown the alert notice into someone else's post box, which is a positive development, I guess. Poor ithilwen and archet had both gotten back their lovely prezzies because of postal service idiocy a few years ago and had to re-send it. Yeah, we do live here under a rock when it comes to service... how have you guessed?
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BTW, does anyone have an idea what this new pingback feature is supposed to be and whether we should turn it off???

Well, this is something that's gonna be really long. It'll take up maybe more entries. But it will help me to keep track on my new (or planned) achievements, as I'll simply turn the title of the ones I manage to get hold of into bold font - and admire my success afterwards. *g*

Yes, I'm a strange, strange person. Hitting the half-century mark doesn't help with that, of course, but then I was strange as an adolescent already, so I probably can't blame my age, eh?

So, let's start with the good old sci-fi stuff, shall we?
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As I re-read this entry, I got a little bit schocked how greedy I am. And I haven't even gone any further than general Star Trek background trivia and some Original series novels. Well, at least I know why I'll be working at least ten more years. The bucks for this dark passion must be earned somehow. *g*