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Better news to end the week with. Today's word is "imports!" My first lot of CDs from Amazon arrived Tuesday (a day earlier than they gave in their delivery range).
Included were the soundtracks for Back to the Futures Two and Three (if you know where to look you can find the first soundtrack here, but not the others), the two post-DS9 CDs by James Darren, and one by Tony Head (and no, it's not the Sweet Transvestite single - I'd rather have a whole-show recording).

And today, I performed a great service to all of Australian fandom. I have ensured that the MacGyver DVD set will indeed get an Australian release (after March went by without a sign of it). I went to Empire and bought a Region 1 copy - that means they've *got* to start planning the Region 4 soon. ;) Worked for StarGate, worked for Firefly (ok, that one was just overlooking the too-be-released lists), Sliders has been listed....

Back to matters Amazon, one of their latest recommendations for me last time I saw was a book (or rather anthology) called "Four Letter Worlds" (because of a search for stuff by Amber Benson). I'd decided to add it to my list next time I order anything (I'd already ordered other stuff this week) but now I don't have to, the comic shop had it just arriving today! *opens up the bag* Which makes sense because it's a comic anthology. Nice little swag of back issues, to make most use of the long weekend. And next week, Captain Britain, in what I understand to be a precursor to the old Excalibur.

Sneak previewed by a bunch of other deities *eyes glow*

Anubis
Indeed, you are 66% erudite, 41% sensual, 50% martial, and 66% saturnine.

Anubis was the Egyptian
God of funerary rituals and the protector of the dead as well as the
judge of souls and ruler of the underworld. Since it was his duty to
weigh souls (along with the Goddess Maat) as a means of discovering the content of honesty, Anubis was also the God of truth.

He is usually seen as a man with the head of a jackal holding the
divine sceptre carried by kings and Gods, but he can also be found on
the walls of tombs as a black jackal or dog accompanying Isis.
By no means an evil God, his domain of graves and tombs was
nevertheless a frightening one, but then, one that offered the chance
of an afterlife.

The God of the dead is probably associated with the jackal due to the
habits of jackals to lurk about tombs and graves, which was one of the
reasons why the early Egyptians sought to make their tombs more
elaborate; to keep the bodies safe from the jackals. It is only natural
therefore that a God of mummification would be connected with them. By
worshipping Anubis, the Egyptians hoped to invoke him to protect their
deceased from jackals, and later, the natural decay that unprotected
bodies endure.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 13% on erudite
You scored higher than 1% on sensual
You scored higher than 27% on martial
You scored higher than 75% on saturnine