Goodwill and The Big Bang

Today, I decided to check out the local thrift store and to my delight, I found that they had just gotten in a whole bunch of new CD's! And it wasn't just from one specific genre. They had all kinds of good stuff: AC/DC, Corinne Bailey Rae, Everything But the Girl, Modest Mouse, Stevie Wonder, Modest Mouse, Chicago, I could go on and on.

And who knew that Goodwill was a good place to meet girls? Well, not I, but apparently it could be. Also perusing the CD's was a very cute 20 something punk rocker girl, D, who seemed to love music as much as I did.
She had some nice ink on her arms and seemed to have a decent sense of humor as she not only loved the "SPAM" mug I found, but she profusely apologized for sticking the "cut on her backside" in my face as she went through the stores CD's.
She talked quite a bit on different bands she was into, I could see from her huge stack of CD's she definitely found lots of good stuff, [Classic Yeah Yeah Yeahs, older Modest Mouse, and The Adolecents (apparently a punk rock band that was around before I was even born) just to name a few]. I myself had a few cd's in my hand including an awesome Death Cab for Cutie CD that I own digitally, but I had to pass as the CD was scratched pretty badly.

But Goodwill wasn't done yet, on the way out, I ran into another girl who had just checked out the music section and I complimented her on a few of her selections (Everything But the Girl and Alanis' JLP album). We talked music for a bit as she picked my brain in the register line while we waited to pay.

When it was all said and done, I walked away with only one album. But it was definitely a gem.

Awesome.

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• So by watching 35 episodes of The Big Bang Theory,
• and with each episode being roughly, 22 minutes,
• adding 5 minutes to insert the dvd and watch any trailers setting up the playback,
• give or take about 10 seconds each episode for switching in between episodes,
• While considering an approximate 5 potty breaks including showers averaging 10 minutes a break, during the time span,
• and adding another 15 minutes to grab snacks and meals
• and I'll be using a value of 1 hour as a "catch all" for any extra time wasted.

We can come to the conclusion that I spent 15.09 hours of my life focused on this show.

And you can use my equation too! It's just:

Y(time spent) = (Number of episodes x episode duration) + total setup up duration + fractional time used to episode switch (usually in seconds so divide by 60), + ('n' potty breaks * the mean potty duration) + the time used to prepare nutrients + any other miscellaneous time wasters (ie. pointless conversations).

It's rather simple really. Just make sure all your units are the same, ok?

And this doesn't even take into consideration the 3 episodes I rewatched and the bonus features featurette. But hey, who's counting. :/