The mom and I are watching a British, old Nancy Drew. Otherwise known as Hetty Wainthrop Investigates. It's pretty funny. :o) And it has a pre-Hobbit or pre-Lost Dominic Monaghan. He's Hetty's 17-year-old assistant. Much fun ( Read more... )

I've placed 10 orders today. I normally place 30 by mid-afternoon, so this is a ve r  y    s   l   o    w     d    a    y  .  .  .  (One of the orders was for $49,000, so maybe that makes up for the slowness? And the answer is...no.)

My favorite Trinidadian co-worker (she of the "sangwhiches") is not here today, so, for once, I am spared the ( Read more... )

Blah. So in the afternoon the orders picked up, but so did the STUPIDITY. I have 5 orders I cannot place because we have no contact info for the vendors. Google is not helping. And I have one particular, favorite end user who regularly puts items from Abbott on his J&J order. It's really pissing me off. *whine, whine, whine ( Read more... )

Today I sat at work with NOTHING TO DO FOR 4 HOURS! Gah. There was not a single order all morning. I wanted to stab my eyes out. (But since I left my QuickSilver needles at home today, I had no ready implements for stabbing. Sad.) And it's about one gajillion degrees in my office, so I am dying a slow, painful death. Apparently, the air ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here at work sunk in boredom. I almost fell asleep around 10...that would not have been good. Seriously, people need to start placing orders! Buy stuff already! I don't even mind if it's from an obscure, contact-info-missing vendor requiring 10 minutes of research simply to place an order. I'd welcome it! (Well, perhaps not ( Read more... )

I have been watching the mystery adaptation of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (and on VHS, no less), but due to the bizarre cataloging system of oslri, I have ended up with parts 1 & 2  (sans part 3) of the first mini-series and only part 1 (sans part 2) of the second one.  So, I have stopped at the dramatic turning point in both of them with no ( Read more... )

I  forgot the most important thing:  I have discovered a new Georgette Heyer mystery!!!  Woohoo!

Apparently, it was not printed in the US until 1969 and Grandma (from whom I discovered G.H.) acquired her G.H.s prior to that.  Thus...no Duplicate Death.  I'm quite thrilled to have found it, as this is the sequel(ish) to They Found Him Dead, so we ( Read more... )

I was quite cheered to drive by Planned Parenthood this morning and see my favorite anti-abortion activists with their signs and posters plasterd all over the sidewalk.  Brilliant.  I think the best part, though, was that someone actually walked by and the activists got to hand him a leaflet.  Whew...can barely contain myself from the excitement.  ( Read more... )

I am quite happy that I caved, as I am quite enjoying Silent in the Sanctuary.  (And I am listening to my mp3 player illicitly at work, yet again.  But let's not get dragged down with details.)  But I do have one quibble: for some inexplicable reason, this book is narrated by a different narrator than Silent in the Grave.  In itself, that is not ( Read more... )

I am utterly shattered.  I have just finished Silent in the Grave, purchased on a whim and half-price sale at audible.   I am blown away.  Deanna Raybourn is a genius, really.

One downside:  The sequel is available, as well, but I still have about 3 days until my next audible credit.  How can I survive that?  I could just purchase it, but, 1) I am ( Read more... )