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I'm excited about this Bag of Crap; don't judge me.
My Bag of Crap from Woot has arrived! :D :D :D There was some panic when I thought it had been lost in the mail, but it arrived safely yesterday. A Woot Bag of Crap is a legendary(ish) item for Wooters. It costs $3 (with $5 shipping plus tax if you live in WA or TX) and contains misc crap. But you see, there's a chance that it WON'T contain crap -- it could contain something valuable, like a digital camera or something. And I really love the not knowing, the part of it that feels like gambling. LOL. But I know I'm not the only one, because the BoC is so popular that people created scripts and auto-bots and what not, so that when it comes up in a Woot, these automated tools just buy out the BoC before a normal person just going to the site (like me) can do it. It often also crashes the server. To counter this, the last time Woot offered a BoC, they created a Flash game that you had to play and go through several levels in order to qualify to buy the BoC (by proving you're a human and not a robot, and are decent at bad Flash games).
I was lucky and was able to buy one at level 4 (each level has a certain number of BoCs available, and when those sell out, you have to play to the next level to qualify). The servers were a NIGHTMARE, they kept crashing.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jade_okelani was not as lucky (the Flash game was really, really bad), and the level you needed to reach got higher and higher and then they were sold out.
I know, all this to buy something called a Bag of Crap.
Anyway, so it arrived yesterday. I did not get a really high-end item like a digital camera. I did, however, feel that I got $8.50 worth of stuff.
Sarea's Bag of Crap
- 3 pairs of adjustable ear warmers
- an LED flashlight
- 2 sets of audio splitters (for like, allowing 2 people to listen to 1 iPod or whatever)
- a reusable shopping bag
- a flimsy lunch bag
- 8-pack of disposable Colgate on-the-go mini toothbrushes
- 4 TrueFire Gourmet Cedar Grilling Planks
I am most excited about the last one. It's like they knew I like to cook!
Cassie Clare and Holly Black were at Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park) last night, and it was fun. I was sorry thatelle_blessing missed it due to RL stress. :( They both did a short reading -- Holly from her latest book Red Glove and Cassie from Clockwork Prince, which is yet to be published. There was a Q&A session after that, then book signing. I got all my MI books signed. I looooooooooooove signed books. *pets them*
Cassie and another girl in line admired my anal mylar-protected books. LOL. I have a thing about my books and always have... they need to be kept in pristine condition. I don't like lending books because the few times I did it in elementary school and they came back with the spines creased and pages dog eared, I was totally traumatized. So now I don't lend books unless I know the other person will be careful with them (or if it's a book I don't care about).
Anyway, Cassie and Holly were both funny and entertaining. I'm interested in reading Holly's various series now, especially her latest Curse Workers trilogy (I admit it's because Jace makes a cameo). I've only ever read Tithe by her. One piece of MI news that we did get is that after MI and ID are both done, Cassie does have an idea for another series based in the Shadowhunter universe -- in which we will get to see cameos of the MI characters as 20-somethings! Eeeeee!
I've started Downton Abbey. So it's Gosford Park with the Titanic tragedy as the backdrop. Y/N?
I was lucky and was able to buy one at level 4 (each level has a certain number of BoCs available, and when those sell out, you have to play to the next level to qualify). The servers were a NIGHTMARE, they kept crashing.
jade_okelani was not as lucky (the Flash game was really, really bad), and the level you needed to reach got higher and higher and then they were sold out.I know, all this to buy something called a Bag of Crap.
Anyway, so it arrived yesterday. I did not get a really high-end item like a digital camera. I did, however, feel that I got $8.50 worth of stuff.
Sarea's Bag of Crap
- 3 pairs of adjustable ear warmers
- an LED flashlight
- 2 sets of audio splitters (for like, allowing 2 people to listen to 1 iPod or whatever)
- a reusable shopping bag
- a flimsy lunch bag
- 8-pack of disposable Colgate on-the-go mini toothbrushes
- 4 TrueFire Gourmet Cedar Grilling Planks
I am most excited about the last one. It's like they knew I like to cook!
Cassie Clare and Holly Black were at Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park) last night, and it was fun. I was sorry that
elle_blessing missed it due to RL stress. :( They both did a short reading -- Holly from her latest book Red Glove and Cassie from Clockwork Prince, which is yet to be published. There was a Q&A session after that, then book signing. I got all my MI books signed. I looooooooooooove signed books. *pets them*Cassie and another girl in line admired my anal mylar-protected books. LOL. I have a thing about my books and always have... they need to be kept in pristine condition. I don't like lending books because the few times I did it in elementary school and they came back with the spines creased and pages dog eared, I was totally traumatized. So now I don't lend books unless I know the other person will be careful with them (or if it's a book I don't care about).
Anyway, Cassie and Holly were both funny and entertaining. I'm interested in reading Holly's various series now, especially her latest Curse Workers trilogy (I admit it's because Jace makes a cameo). I've only ever read Tithe by her. One piece of MI news that we did get is that after MI and ID are both done, Cassie does have an idea for another series based in the Shadowhunter universe -- in which we will get to see cameos of the MI characters as 20-somethings! Eeeeee!
I've started Downton Abbey. So it's Gosford Park with the Titanic tragedy as the backdrop. Y/N?