A well-balanced weekend

Well, I think this weekend worked out just fine. While spending yesterday writing and doing errands (including doing a few loads of laundry that got clean and dry without a hitch this time), we also found the time to go to our favorite haunt, Tiernan's, which we haven't gone to in quite some time. The day came to a close with the usual Saturday anime shows. We also made plans for next weekend to drive up to Sacramento for the California State Fair, which Emm is all asquee about.

Today we took a trip up to Amoeba up in the Haight, which we haven't done in awhile. I had some more stuff to sell off and got a decent amount of store credit ($164!) and somehow ended up not spending it all. Emm found some nifty stuff in the dvd section, where she usually goes while I make my way through the cds. Our purchase today:

CDs:
--Blaqk Audio, CexCells
--Happy Mondays, Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches.
--HelloGoodbye, Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
--Paul McCartney, All the Best!--the UK version, which has different and hard-to-find non-US tracks
--Rooney, Calling the World
--Social Distortion, Greatest Hits
--Paprika (the soundtrack)

DVDs:
--Ergo Proxy, Vol. 1
--Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh version, which Emm has been waiting for ages to be released!)
--Starship Operators Vol. 1 and Vol. 3 with the box

(Sidenote: head58, you'd really like the Blaqk Audio cd--it's very Depeche Mode/Information Society/Camouflage/Alphaville/Red Flag/pre-industrial Ministry/Cabaret Voltaire with a bit of really good Eurotechno thrown in. I am SO diggin' this album right now.)

Added to the fact that a hairdresser-in-training had accosted Emm while we were in the CD section, asking if she would be interested in taking part in a haircutting project...

But wait! There's more! We stopped at a really good cafe on Cole Street (all the other places on Haight we wanted to go to, including Magnolia, were PACKED, and this place was nearly empty) and had very tasty sammiches washed down with good iced coffee and a big chocolate chip cookie. And from there we took the N-Muni back to the center of town, only to get off at the Civic Center stop. Why? Because the Main branch of the SF library was there! Geeks that we are, we stopped in and hung out there for a good hour or so to pick up stuff. No, I don't take out cds from the library for the sole purpose of ripping them to my hard drive, why do you ask? We made it home with our loot and we're all happy now.

And it occured to the both of us that I am an incredibly cheap date today--the most we spent was about $8 each on the sandwiches and drinks and an additional $2 on the cookie. Everything else we got today we didn't pay a dime for.


So yeah, all in all, a good weekend. Now to kick back and relax!