So my collection of books is in terrible disarray; many of them are in the order I want them to be but many more, that is, more recent acquisitions, are sorta strewn across some shelves in a pretty haphazard way. Recently I was going through some of these recent acquisitions (I don't even know what's in there at this point), and found/remembered a ( Read more... )

Dang I am twenty-nine-and-a-half today. I will probably celebrate by sleeping later than I want to, maybe hitting a SLIFF screening or two (or more), maybe just vegetating on the couch with some Monty Python's Flying Circus or some library DVDs or somesuch until I go into diabetic shock from eating nothing but post-Halloween-sale miniature ( Read more... )

My debit card, for many years, was accompanied by a rewards program through Scorecard Rewards. A few months ago, I got a notice that they were going to start charging for this rewards program, but you could opt not to do it anymore if you so chose. As I had never, ever used it before a coupla months ago (I got a sleeping bag), I opted to ( Read more... )