So the good news is that Bill and I finally managed to put the bookshelves together and secured to the wall on Friday, which means I've spent the weekend unpacking books in ten-minute increments. (It's actually very quick work.) The bonus good news is that we still have space on the five bookshelves - the bad news is that we've still got two ( Read more... )

Apparently, my new Kindle has it's own email address. I'm amused. I've also been trolling the internet for free eBooks, and have had good luck in finding various editions of classic novels which are theoretically going to be on my Kindle when I power it up again. Jane Eyre and Sherlock Holmes and Jerome K Jerome (which I've always wanted to read ( Read more... )

( Long and Wordy Post in List Format, dealing with books I've read and been reading, thoughts on travel and electronics, and upcoming holidays )

So......packout is scheduled, passports are obtained, I've called the management company and left a message that we're ready to put the house on the market for renters (no, seriously, anyone want to rent a house in NoVa?), and I'm slowly moving various bits of flotsam and jetsam into piles for Storage, Surface, and Air shipments. Bits, because I ( Read more... )