I'm making this entry on my phone because when I was using my Kindle Fire to read this morning it suddenly died and wouldn't turn back on. And it wasn't the battery, it had been at 58%. I left it on the charger when I went out to run errands, on the off chance it really was dead and hadn't been showing an accurate charge. 3 hours later, still ( Read more... )

I got an email from Vieux Carre Candles that they were offering 25% off any purchase this weekend, and I haven't bought any of them in a long time, so I splurged on a couple. I discovered those candles at the twice-yearly local craft fair at San Francisco Plantation, and I liked the first one I burned so much that I went on their website the next ( Read more... )

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David Crosby, 1960s Folk Rock Icon, Dies at 81When I was gifted a turntable a few years back and took up buying old records as a hobby, there were things I knew right away I wanted to focus on. Like, Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac* (hard to imagine but she wasn't always a member), British folk rock, 1950s Exotica and 1960s country ( Read more... )