My DVD+-RW DL arrived today for my HTPC. Now, to wait until Thursday for the rest of the components to get here. My case, DVD-ROM, audio card, hard drive, power supply, and battery backup are just sitting here, waiting, ready to go.

And since I'm gearing up for a nice new HTPC with full gigabit streaming capabilities, I'm ripping again. Today I picked up Da Ali G Show: Season 2 and Simpsons: Season 7 at Best Buy for good prices, but each had 15,000 reward zone bonus points attached to them - basically $5 off when the rewards gift certificate gets here. Also, I was pleasantly surprised to see The Aristocrats marked down to $13.98. I was tempted to buy Flight Plan at that point, but decided against it - I can wait for a 2 for $15 on that one. I was going to hold off for a sale on The Aristocrats since no store had it advertised for less than $20, but for $14, I couldn't pass up the comedy.

Up to 1003 DVDs now. Nothing to really shoot for anymore...1,000 was always the big "pie in the sky." Perhaps I'll have to buy 3 Sony 400 disc DVD changers so I can have every DVD on-demand and have all my TV shows ripped and on-demand in an episode-by-episode basis along with any other movies I may have ripped in the past. 1,200 is the new goal. And then 1,600.

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