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Missed out on my severance meeting

Today wasn't quite productive at work. Things are slowing down to the point where if I'm in the office or not it doesn't really matter. I ended up coming late to work, missing out on my severence information meeting. I e-mailed HR and then headed out to meet with Peter Kroll; an old co-worker of mine at Intellitactics whom I ran into by accident on the subway recently. We had a pleasant lunch catching up, and I found out that he had the StarTrek TNG DVDs that I've been looking for. Arthur has been downloading them slowly for me. Specifically I was looking for the episode in which the character 'Data' has an offspring. My father had enjoyed that episode very much and I thought it would be nice to find it again.

I met up with Susan later at New College, where she returned some money I asked her to exchange for me. I'm sitting with about 5800 RMB and $770 USD in my pocket. My mother is coming in today to apply for her Visa to China so I'll be handing that over shortly.

I recieved the DVDs I ordered off of yesasia yesterday. 'The Classic' and 'The Way Home'. Both are overseas versions with Cantonese Language streams (so my mother can watch as well). I've been debating with friends over the value of having the originals (sometimes $10 USD extra) and having the legit overseas versions that have the additional languages. The overseas versions resemble the 'fan ban' or pirated versions you often see at Chinese media stores. They are of a higher quality however as typical pirated DVDs can not play on my old Cicero DVD-rom but legit DVDs can (wow, a use for that stupid DVD-rom).

The reports to my mass mailed e-mail have started to come in. When enough feed back has been returned I'll post the results for people to see. I'm heading out soon to drop off Rui's special 'Il Mare' DVDs. I was going to print pictures out at futureshop, but they'll have a sale starting friday so it'll be better if I waited.

posted by Tempest7 @ 05:33