I'm in a Rut. A Funk. A Runk?

For some time, the highlight of my week has been going through the Best Buy and Target circulars (Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning), to see what media purchases I can make to best avoid doing anything substantive in my life.

Yes, I'm the poster child for arrested development through DVDs.

Typically, there's minimal damage done, since I usually cherry pick the "2 for $20" type of deals. Mostly, I end up throwing them on the ever-growing stack of unwatched (and oftentimes, unopened) DVDs on my end table.

This weekend was a little different, though -- the DVD box sets for La Femme Nikita seasons 1, 2, and 3 were on sale at Best Buy for $37.99 each. At 22 episodes per season, that's about $1.75 per episode, or about $120 with tax.

That's nearly as good as the Asian grey-market "we swear it's not bootleg" DVDs you see on ebay.

So, anyway, I ended up getting the first 3 seasons, plus a cheap universal remote to replace the one that came with my VCR, and that apparently committed suicide after being dropped too many times.

The total cost of the purchase?

$127.01

Now, if I'd spent 10 times as much (dammit, not counting the cents part, argh), I would have had $1,270.01, or very nearly a loopback address.

I'm not even that technical, I really don't have a reason for thinking these things.

Lastly, of course, I am not the first to conflate the terms rut & funk to get "runk", though Google suggests that the first real occurance on the Web was just last year, which I find hard to believe.

Tags: la femme nikita, runk, loopback address