Hold me closer, Tony Danza...

It's not good news for the DVD release of WKRP in Cincinnati according to this early review which details the multitude of music edits and replacements that had to be made.

Spring in Springfield, part 2: The quest

I am running out of storage space for my DVDs. This should come as no surprise to anyone.

My storage consists of four of these shelves, which are affordable and look great. I used to find them at Suncoast, but with their bankruptcy and sale to the owners of FYE, they have stopped carrying them. (Big Lots has them, but in a different finish, and I'm picky enough to want them all to look the same.)

So I go to Sauder's website looking for retailers in this area, and come up with none. Ditto for the Dallas and San Antonio areas. Then the thought hit me -- why not look for them while I'm on vacation?

Sure enough, Sauder showed there are plenty of retailers selling them in the Midwest.

Attempt #1 was at Blain's Farm and Fleet in Urbana, IL. I went there expecting something like Western Auto. I got it -- that place is like Western Auto on steroids. Too bad they didn't have the shelves in stock -- their price was $10 less than I found elsewhere.

Attempt #2 was at Pamida in Rockville, IN. No luck there.

Attempt #3 was at Menards in Mishiwaka, IN. I wish Menards had stores closer to here. They are a really nice home center/hardware store/lumberyard, bigger than my local Home Despot or Lowes. And they had my shelves! I win at shopping!

So I now have two new DVD storage shelves ready to fill. I'm keeping my wallet under close supervision now.

(Speaking of shopping, I caught a nice misprice at Fry's. They had The Invasion, a classic Pat Troughton Doctor Who serial, mismarked at $9.99 (should have been $29.99).

County quest update!

( And now let's go to the map... )

County counting highlights:

This trip covered about 3000 miles.

42 counties added to the list this trip, including two in Michigan that I thought I had been to before. Current county count is 2329, or 74.1% of the total of 3141. (For Canada: 149, or 50.9% of the total of 293.) (For Mexico: 4, or 0.2% of the total of 2442. I don't plan to finish Mexico.)

Illinois and Indiana are now complete. I have now been to every county in 28 of the 50 states.

Capitol buildings in Springfield, Lansing and Indianapolis now visited. I have now been to 40 of the 50 state capitol buildings. (Remaining: AK, HI, ID, MT, NC, ND, OR, SC, SD, WA, and the US Capitol) (For Canada: remaining legislative assemblies are AB, BC, MB, NL, NS, PE, SK, NT, NU, YT)

Unchanged is the count of 45 of the 50 states visited (remaining are AK, HI, MT, ND, WA).

What's next? Depends on where I take my pre- or post-OGWW road trip. Maybe West Virginia and Kentucky, maybe Wisconsin and Michigan.