Amazing Feats of Self Control….

I went to the computer fair today, and wandered around for about two hours, and DIDN’T BUY A THING.

I didn’t buy a Graphics tablet for $55, or even one for $49 – I didn’t buy the $44 wireless headphones, I didn’t buy a wireless mouse.
I didn’t buy the Pentium III 533 motherboard & CPU for $40, nor did I buy one of the three very nice little compact second hand Pentium II 400 complete systems for $100 each.
I didn’t buy a $40 bluetooth USB adapter, or a $55 802.11g card.
I didn’t even buy some DVDRs.
I had even gone in there with the vague intention that if I saw an 802.11g access point for $100 or less, that I would buy it. So in otherwords, I was mentally and emotionally prepared to spend $100, and I STILL didn’t buy anything!.
I was so restrained, it’s scary.

I did buy a bacon and egg roll before I left…but that doesn’t count…heh

Then I headed to the mall with the intention of looking in Myer to see if they had any more of the Country Road shirts I’d been buying – it’s the work Christmas party tonight, and I’ve worn my blue shirt a few times now, and the green one along with my grey pants makes me look like a park ranger or something. So I was hoping to find a dark red sort of colour. Unfortunately it’s kind of out of season for heavy long sleeve cotton shirts, so all they had was a probably too bright red in either Small or Extra Large, so I didn’t bother.
Blue it is!

So that’s another $100 I didn’t spend!
Also, on the way to the mall, Queen’s “I want it all” came on (yes I do damnit!, and right now!) – and I noticed just how much of an awsome 80s hard rock air guitar inspiring piece it is, and so decided to buy the album if I could find it.

I looked in JB, but whilst they had a few Queen albums, and not just the Best Ofs they didn’t have that one. The Music Shop had all three Best Ofs, and two live albums, but no studio albums. This kind of pissed me off a little – If a band is good enough to have THREE best of albums, and a whole bunch of live albums, then surely they are good enough for a decent music store to stock ONE OR TWO of their actual studio albums – you know, the ones the band laboured hard over, spending hours in the studio recording, and choosing the right tracks. Not the ones some producer threw together to generate a quick revenue boost….Gah!

I also looked in Sanity, but 10 seconds in there and it occured to me that I didn’t know why I ever bother stepping foor in that store. I’d probably have more luck trying to find real music in Bras n Things than Sanity. The Virgin Music store in Myer was pretty much the same.

So another $20 saved – though not exactly a feat of self control, ’cause I REALLY tried to spend it.

While I was in JB I also noticed that the RotK collectors edition is out.
So I popped in to EB to try to layby it, but unfortunately they didn’t have any. I figure I’ll just buy it outright next week.

So money spending thwarted again!

Although, I must admit that I accidently ordered two Within Temptation albums (Mother Earth, and the new one – The Silent Force) from a UK web site earlier in the week. But they do free delivery and the two albums together only came to $45 so that’s not too bad – but it does mean I’ve broken my No Buying Music Online rule.
Oh well.

Oh, by the way – yes I’m still alive, and no, I haven’t posted much lately.
You get that.