To explain: I moved house twice last year. Once by choice (mostly), once not. So my smaller possessions are rather scrambled right now. Last move I filled two large-ish boxes with DVDs, and I had unpacked those (to the extent of sticking them all in a closet, which at least gets the boxes out of my way). But that only produced four of the six Sugar DVDs - specifically 2, 3, 4 and 6.

But when I was packing books (I have about 3000 of the blasted things) I would often fill a box part-way with hardcovers and then top it off with paperbacks or CDs or tapes or DVDs - the boxes get too heavy otherwise. So I started pulling every box open just to see if that one had DVDs in it. I found Sugar volume 1 pretty quickly, but no volume 5.

I did find lots of other things, though, including DVDs I'd forgotten I had (I haven't seen all my DVDs since, oh, last May). The most recent box contained ten volumes of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and piled on top of those, four stacks of twelve DVDs. Let's look at one stack:

Haibane Renmei volumes 2 and 3. I bought the box set last year thinking I only had the first volume; looks like I may have two complete copies.
Inu Yasha volume 12.
Nuku Nuku Dash volume 1.
Pulp Fiction
Futurama season 2, disc 2.
Princess Mononoke
Jawbreaker (No, I don't know why.)
His Girl Friday
Yamamoto Yohko: The Perfect Collection
The Avengers '63 disc 4 (Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale)
Monty Python's Flying Circus disc 5
Magic User's Club disc 5

Volume 5 of Sugar was in the next stack. Unopened, like volume 6.

I'm trying to turn them into AVIs so I can easily watch them on my notebook, but my computer isn't co-operating. I might have to live with DVDShrink, which works just fine.

And I still have 30 boxes to open.

(Also found: Two cartons of wine, which may or may not be drinkable; the keyboards for my SGI and Sun workstations; the mouse for my Wacom graphics tablet; my N64 and Playstation (one) and their respective controllers; a whole lot of SCSI cables; the grand unified remote control collection; The Maltese Falcon; a pretty complete set of AD&D 2nd Edition rules (about 40-50 volumes); a 120GB hard disk, which I assume doesn't work; my toaster; the controller for my Logitech speaker system (which has led a rough life this past year); my Sony Vaio; a pair of binoculars; my Dalek apron; a Sailor Mercury doll; a Life on Mars Lego set; my spare pair of glasses (and a reminder why they are my spare pair: instant migraine); and 125 blank DVD-Rs. Oh, and rather a lot of books.)

Update: Ooh, Pom Poko!

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