As I'm sure I've mentioned, my dad owns a bookstore. And as I'm sure I've also mentioned, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out last week.

These two facts combine in this post. Sadly, this is not the logical post, about the Harry Potter Party. I'll get to it.

Instead, this is about a third thing I mentioned: that yesterday, I did a lot of ( Read more... )

Today was a better day than I'd expected, once I got to work (which was less than frosty, my own bike's tire being flat). Which was annoying, as I should have been tye-dying shirts, but whatever.

First and foremost that I must tell you: My dad found my iPod. So, you know, one less thing. Plus, eight months out of twelve, I'm not using the car, ( Read more... )

The sun might have been within it's radius of the horizon, but there was no way of knowing it. The sky was flooded with clouds, dark clouds thick with incipient rain. There were a few scattered drops, but water wasn't the element by the weather chose to announce itself. The sky was like a strobe light, lightning falling to earth not in the vague ( Read more... )