April is the cruelest month

I haven't really felt like posting much, well I rarely feel like posting much anyway, but this month was just kind of even more so.

But a few updates on stuff.

The tape deck is well and truly disassembled. We tried putting it back together, but it wouldn't work properly after that, so it's junk.

I never heard back from Cambridge University Press regarding the cassette.

Fortunately, Amazon came through and I now have a replacement and will, hopefully, soon be Speaking Greek, or some version thereof.

I went and bid on something on eBay and remembered just how much I hate bidding on stuff on eBay. There's always some bastard who does the last day sniping.

I'd been toying with increasing my bid in increments, and the last one I tried put me at the highest bidder, which is a little annoying, but not undeserved, as I was pretty much pushing up the selling price out of sheer irritation.

Fortunately it's less than 25 cents over what my max bid was intended to be, and I feel a little better googling and finding out that someone seems to have recently paid roughly twice what I'll be paying for this item, not to mention it costing me less than it did for the last person who bought this same thing from the same seller, during the auction I'd bid on last month (in which I am happy to report that the first sniper in that auction got sniped by another).

Not to mention, the Canadian shipping is the same price as for the US, which is always a bonus.

So, even though it's a little more than I hoped to pay, at least I'm getting something I like for not as much money as it could have cost me, and it saves me hours of footwork trying to find one used in the area which I live.

Although with my luck, once I've bought it, I'll find one for half the price in the first place I look.

Ah, well.