Various things!

First of all, for those interested individuals, the playlist from music night is available: www.fivefeetdeep.com/fileuploads/anime_club_fall_music_night_08_playlist.html
Should be exactly what was played, since I think that if I played something out of the original order, I then moved the tracks in the playlist.

Edit: Pictures from music night: http://www.fivefeetdeep.com/photogallery/thumbnails.php?album=31

Random other stuff!:

• Bruegger's is awesome, which makes me realize that Japan could really use some good bagels.
• The Pumpkin Spice coffee at Bruegger's (provided by Green Moutain Coffee) is the best pumpkin spice coffee I've found so far, and even in times when I'm trying to avoid caffeine I have no problems giving in and buying it.
• In my quest to bring the anime club library into the digital domain, I ended up purchasing (for more money than I ever would have hoped) two professional broadcast S-VHS VCRs. Two because... the first one is kinda half dead. Audio works great, the tape transport is ridiculously clean, but no video. It's not the video heads because the setup menu on-screen display doesn't show up either, so it's either one of the time-base corrector boards or the actual video processing board, which is somewhat inconvenient. It would have been a really nice deck. Luckily the second one (while not as clean on the inside) does seem to work okay. I haven't been able to locate a manual for it though. If you're wondering why a crazy broadcast deck was necassary... well, it's kinda neat to have something with a big sticker that says "FOR PROFESSIONAL USE ONLY" because that means it's serious bizness. Additionally, I determined that especially for older tapes, a time-base corrector circuit was going to be very useful for stabilizing the signal from old tapes. Most consumer VCR transport mechanisms probably wouldn't be able to handle playing through 300 old tapes without clogging or jamming like crazy after a while. So, hopefully I'll start making some progress on this soon.
• I need to stop buying food. I ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH FOOD, saving that money would be good.
• I am currently procrastinating even though I feel quite motivated to do work today, probably a result of having had a very vigorous 3 hour 1500 calorie cardio workout in the gym yesterday. Might do something like that more often, might make eventually getting up to marathon distance running more of a realistic proposition. I never particularly wanted to do marathons, I always thought that was a little too much. But I really want to do the Tokyo Marathon sometime, and the full marathon course is nicer than the half marathon course so yeah... A half marathon wouldn't be much of a problem right now even, but a full is right out of the question. Must get power level over 9000 first.
• Okay I could probably keep writing stuff for a really long time, but shouldn't.
• I need to work on my IJST website during break