For quite some time now, I have pretty much compulsively wandered through the DVD section of stores that have one -- even when my mission to the store might be to, say, buy gloves or storage bins.

Yesterday, in the course of a trip to the recordable DVD shelf of Best Buy to buy a bunch of 8x DVD+R discs (because my aging RCA DRC8040 DVD recorder won't recognize blank discs of 16x or above, so, when I can no longer find 8x discs, its use as a recorder will be gone) ... Oh, let's start a new sentence. On the course of a Best Buy trip, I stumbled over the second season of The Greatest American Hero, labeled at $32.99, for $14.99. I hadn't even known it was available, much less available for $15.

Then, in the midst of walking through Target, I found the fifth season of Smallville (list at about $60, ordinary Target price something like $24) for $19.99.

And at the moment, I'm in the midst of the Heroes DVDs, having just finished the sixth episode. And that's not to mention the Collector's Edition of Serenity, the culmination of one of my favorite TV series that has no true connection with comics. I could spend the entire Labor Day Weekend without cleaning my house.

But I won't. I won't.