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I am a happy camper!
Jun. 21st, 2016 10:21 pmI was very not-happy when I left the house at 4pm. For a variety of reasons, it had been kind of a pissy day. Fortunately I was on my way to have dinner with two old best friends.
We had all been neighbors at a condo complex. Audrey was the first to move in, then Terry, then me. Terry was the first to move out: he got a job in Omaha. At the time he was working for the State of Arizona, and they royally sucked (I also worked there for almost 4 years). Then Audrey bought another condo elsewhere in Phoenix and sold the one where we were at. Then I got married 11 years ago and moved to New Mexico.
Audrey has since bought another condo at the original place. Terry got married 15 years ago, and Audrey and I were their Best Man/Maid of Honor.
Then Terry's wife died unexpectedly in her sleep. A day or two after her passing, he learned that his dad had terminal cancer in Globe, AZ.
Terry's employer, conveniently, has an IT office in Tempe, AZ, and Terry was able to do a temporary transfer there.
Tonight, the three of us got together over pizza and had a tremendous time.
But that is only one reason that I'm happy....
Back in the 1980s and forward, I was a HUGE fan of the BBC series Yes, Minister. Sir Humphrey was such a perfect character for Nigel Hawthorne, not to mention Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker. It was nigh unto the perfect series. So brilliant. And I also loved Yes, Prime Minister. I heard there was a Yes, M'Lord, where Hacker becomes a Lord and goes to the House of Lords, but perhaps I heard that it was being considered and never became a reality.
ANYWAY, I've never owned them on DVD. They were formerly consistently priced over $100 for the set. The only thing DVD-wise that I've spent that much money on was the complete Monty Python's Flying Circus. I just couldn't see spending that much on YM/YPM for so little time compared to Python.
Then I happened to look online and saw that the price of the new sets was down to about $40 and used copies could be had for around $25.
Thursday I was at one of my favorite used bookstores and I was looking over DVDs of TV series, I don't remember what I was looking for. As an idle thing, I looked under Y. And there were two copies of Yes, Prime Minister.
$25 later, I was practically skipping out the store.
They didn't have the first series, nor did the other good used video stores that I frequent. But Amazon has all, so Friday I ordered Yes, Minister.
And when I got home tonight, it was there on the couch.
VERY happy.
We had all been neighbors at a condo complex. Audrey was the first to move in, then Terry, then me. Terry was the first to move out: he got a job in Omaha. At the time he was working for the State of Arizona, and they royally sucked (I also worked there for almost 4 years). Then Audrey bought another condo elsewhere in Phoenix and sold the one where we were at. Then I got married 11 years ago and moved to New Mexico.
Audrey has since bought another condo at the original place. Terry got married 15 years ago, and Audrey and I were their Best Man/Maid of Honor.
Then Terry's wife died unexpectedly in her sleep. A day or two after her passing, he learned that his dad had terminal cancer in Globe, AZ.
Terry's employer, conveniently, has an IT office in Tempe, AZ, and Terry was able to do a temporary transfer there.
Tonight, the three of us got together over pizza and had a tremendous time.
But that is only one reason that I'm happy....
Back in the 1980s and forward, I was a HUGE fan of the BBC series Yes, Minister. Sir Humphrey was such a perfect character for Nigel Hawthorne, not to mention Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker. It was nigh unto the perfect series. So brilliant. And I also loved Yes, Prime Minister. I heard there was a Yes, M'Lord, where Hacker becomes a Lord and goes to the House of Lords, but perhaps I heard that it was being considered and never became a reality.
ANYWAY, I've never owned them on DVD. They were formerly consistently priced over $100 for the set. The only thing DVD-wise that I've spent that much money on was the complete Monty Python's Flying Circus. I just couldn't see spending that much on YM/YPM for so little time compared to Python.
Then I happened to look online and saw that the price of the new sets was down to about $40 and used copies could be had for around $25.
Thursday I was at one of my favorite used bookstores and I was looking over DVDs of TV series, I don't remember what I was looking for. As an idle thing, I looked under Y. And there were two copies of Yes, Prime Minister.
$25 later, I was practically skipping out the store.
They didn't have the first series, nor did the other good used video stores that I frequent. But Amazon has all, so Friday I ordered Yes, Minister.
And when I got home tonight, it was there on the couch.
VERY happy.
