I noticed yesterday that I didn't order quite what I thought I had ordered. I thought that Media Blasters was releasing the whole first season as a thinpak, but I guess I wasn't looking very closely. It turns out that it's a regular single-DVD package (they still sell those?) and just has the first four episodes, which is how many fansub episodes I watched. The next DVD of the first season will come out in March. Bummer.

Not that Ah! My Buddha! is the kind of series that will seize me by the throat and make me need more immediately, mind. But the eps I did watch were pleasant fun, and more varied than I had thought they would be, for a fan-service monster-of-the-week show. They didn't even make the guy become a super-saiyajin in every episode.

Media Blasters has surprised me: the title is late. The original estimate was Tuesday of this week, and Bob is usually pretty cautious with his estimated dates (on the assumption that people are happy if it's perceived as being early and mad if it's late, so it's better to set the estimated dates later). Media Blasters has usually been pretty good about making their shipments on time. I wonder what happened this time?

This one was dubbed, and I wonder if they had production scheduling issues. (These days it seems like the majority of Media Blasters releases are sub-only, and that's a lot easier to schedule, and a lot easier to parallellize.)

UPDATE: Of course, I could take the emotionally satisfying but utterly unfair route of blaming it all on Bob. Grr! He should have shipped it to me even if he didn't have it!

Or I could blame it on global warming. Seems like everything else bad that happens is caused by global warming climate change, anyway.

UPDATE: I remember seeing the March item for the series and somehow had thought that it was going to be the second season as another boxed set. I guess I was having a senior moment.

I make jokes about that, but something akin to that has been happening to me the last few years. Sometimes I need a word but can't find it. Yesterday I needed the word "devout", for example. Occasionally I'm reduced to looking at posts I made to USS Clueless which I know included the word I need. Sometimes the words come hours later and I edit the posts to include them. And sometimes I never find them at all.

It's a little scary.

UPDATE: I think that's the reason why it's better for me to write spontaneously. When the ideas are bubbling out, the words I need bubble out too. But if I try to force myself to write, it's like marching uphill through mud.

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