Poll Ah, November!

There are 446 books in the resource center library where I work. As of today, through my lonely efforts, they have all been catalogued and re-shelved by subject, and they are all in glorious order. When I got here, roughly ten of the accounting books could safely have been said to be in some sort of nebulous accounting zone; the rest, uncatalogued ( Read more... )

So, uh, I'm staying very busy at work right now (as in, I'm having to under-report my hours to stay out of trouble with the business office), I've lost more weight and have no pants left that fit me (excluding a pair of khakis of uncertain origin that I found in the back of a closet, but I'm not about to look a pair of gift pants in the fly), and I ( Read more... )

That's a big number, so I should hurry up and enter my credit card information before it sinks in.

...I recall, with a bittersweet smile, an earlier comment that I might get this new system for around $2,000. Heh. I blew past $2,000 around the time that my inner child demanded SLI. It didn't help that I needed a SEXY BLACK CASE (so sexy it deserves CAPSLOCK). And that hundred dollars in mail-in rebates? Is not really making a difference ( Read more... )

( I am such a nerd. )

I've worked up to running1 three miles every day!

1Technically, running a mile, speed-walking a sixteenth of one, running half a mile, and roughly repeating steps two and three until speed-walking the final quarter-mile as a cool-down, but I am not one of nature's merry sprinters, so this is good for me.In news that I choose to believe is somehow ( Read more... )

Instead, let's talk about the foot-high decorative/functional rock wall I have built in our front yard by painstakingly digging up and moving the rocks in the back. I have also used these rocks to encircle most of a little island of dirt and trees in the driveway, so as to prevent the frequent rains from washing mud into the garage. Now I have to ( Read more... )

Poll (Re)Reading Habits

Poll Those Burning Questions
The terrifying visage of Max compels you.