music

I need a new CD player.
My brother-in-law copied some CDs for me (if you are from the copyright protection guys, private copies are allowed, so don't bother to sue us.) but I can't listen to them in my own room. My CD player has trouble reading it.
The DVD player my brother uses to play CDs can, but I can't connect it to my system. Because it is really, really old. It doesn't even have a remote, something that has bugged me from day 1. So it's gotta be a new one pretty soon.
But these thingies are still rather expensive. I want a CD player, cassette player and radio. That's about it. I don't care to have 5 or 6 speakers, I don't need a speaker in every corner of my room (and one hanging from the ceiling, I suppose).
If you buy a DVD player these days, they have reasonable prices. And yu get all kinds of stuff to go with it. DVDs, or vouchers for something. Not that anybody really wants that stuff, otherwise they wouldn't give it away for free. But it makes the whole thing seem like a great deal. Again, why should company be interested in giving us a great deal - so great that they don't earn anything from it. Doesn't seem logical. But still used car dealers have for decades made a living from telling just that.
Anyway, I need to check for something cheap to buy.
And probably wait a few months and hope I earn money by then.

random rambling

I have spend quite some time today reading HP fanfic. OK, it was more Hermione/Snape fanfic, to be correct. I think I should blame it on scatteredlogic for pointing out this site in one of her recent posts, which led me to another site solely devoted to HG and SS.
Had a lot of fun reading some of these stories.
Of course, it was for educational purposes only. I still have this HP fanfic idea in mind and needed to get some English HP vocabulary.
Easiest way to do it would be to get the English novels, but the library here, while most likely having all of them availabe, would charge fee for one year, while the library in Leipzig, where I already paid for another six months, doesn't have all available. Who is reading that? Neither a film nor a new novel is due anytime soon. Bitch! as Snoop Dogg would say.
I got some vocabulary, though. And now I could go and watch Six feet under.
Noted something funny about gmail. It lists several "Reply to your comment" mails as one conversation. I missed that the first time, so if I haven't been replying to comments, that is why. Probably any answer of mine wouldn't have been very interesting anyway. I have the habit of repeating myself and stating obvious facts.
Send out three job applications today. We'll see.
Reading about the real problems some people on LJ have (right now, especially shadesong) I feel very silly to be so whiny about the job thing.
Blah. More random stuff.
Brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli brummli
Hah, want to know what that is?
A Mythenmetzsche Abschweifung. Sorry, you no speak German, you not know more. Learn German, read Walter Moers. (For an explanation on Mythenmetz and brummli, Ensel und Krete)
It isn't my fault his great stories haven't been translated into English, at least they haven't made it to the Library of Congress. (Note to self: loc.gov is quite different from loc.org)
For those of you who do know German, the following books by this author are suggested:
Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
Ensel und Krete (Of Brummli fame)
Rumo
And as a side note, even though no dictionary will list brummli or Mythenmetz, you can definitely find "Abschweifung". Or at least "abschweifen", which is the verb to this highly uncommon and probably newly invented noun.

EDIT: I was wrong, but not completely wrong. There actually is The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear in the catalog of the British Library. Published in London by Secker&Warburg in 2000.
Go read!