At home today… Strange…

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For the first time in a *LONG* time I am home for a saturday. I cannot remember the last time I was home for a saturday? I have a feeling it might have been just before I went on my trip in September. That is a LONG time ago. I have been shopping, and I might mow the lawns in a little while.

Intellectual Property

The World Intellectual Property Organisation is offering courses in IP. More information can be found on the UN Web Site. The actual Web Site for the courses can be found here. I am thinking of doing some of the courses. Realistically it cannot hurt, and given the amount of time I have been spending in the last few weeks with IP related issues I think it would be time well spent.

Shopping

My existing sandles are in need of replacement so I picked some new ones up at Rivers today. I got a really nice pair of sandles for $40, and a new pair of shoes for $80. Colorado had nothing that looked nice when I went there. Rivers had a far better collection. I did give up when I went shopping for running shoes. I didnt find anthing that I felt compelled to get. That will be my next shopping trip I suspect.

DVD Player

I gave my brother the DVD player last night. He was really happy with it. He paid me most of what I had paid for it, which is not bad concidering it was not quite new, having been purchased a bit over two months back. I just hope that I get a similar return selling some other stuff.

Music: Phantom. Track 11 of the 2nd CD is Learn to Be Lonely performed by Minnie Driver. This song is so far out of the style of the rest of the album that it is not funny. This almost sounds like it could be played on commercial radio, whereas the rest of the album is more, well, part of the soundtrack. Personally I find the title of the song rather depressing. Learn to Be Lonely sounds so depressing.

On my shopping trip I also picked up a 3CD collection of Chillout Music, with a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA for only $30. Unfortunately they neglected to put the right CD in the case so I now have the cd of his Born To Run CD, which is a poor mans best of album. Next time I am down there I will exchange the CD.