Last night I tried a new hair salon.  Went with a friend from work and got highlights and cut.  [Which I've been told looks really good.  I agree, but it would be vain of me to say so without corroboration, yes?  Although it's not like I had anything to do with it, other than paying for it.  It's all due to Jen, the awesome hair guru.  I just ( Read more... )

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+  Went to Let's Dish with M this weekend.  Before starting on the new dishes, I needed to cook the last remaining dish from our last visit, shrimp & corn chowder with cornbread.  The cornbread is a little...weird, in terms of texture and taste.  There's bacon in there.  It was probably supposed to go in with the ( Read more... )

Today I bought an iphone at long last. First apps? Kindle and eReader.

Need a name for it. Suggestions?

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What does it say about me that want one of these skins desperately?

Amazon Rant:  Behold the power of Twitter, the interwebs, and angry readers and writers.

I used to patronize Borders exclusively until my local (within walking distance) closed.  There are still a couple within driving distance, but their selections have dwindled.  The B&N near me is huge, but the customer service is horrendous and their romance ( Read more... )

And I like it.  It is cherry flavored and sweet.

The proprietary nature of the files still bothers me.  But my desire for immediate gratification is satisfied by the Whispernet wifi that permits me to buy and download and read immediately, from wherever I happen to be.  On the train?  Okay.  Waiting in line at the post office?  Fine.  Sitting on the ( Read more... )

The Economist has been amazingly silent, IMO, about the publishing industry, ebooks and ereaders, given the amount of page space that the music industry, iTunes, and music's DRM have gotten.  But check out this article, in which The Economist speculates that ebooks and the Kindle won't have the same impact on book publishing that iTunes did on the ( Read more... )

Sadly, I've discovered that buying e-books does not solve my TBR dilemma; in fact, it makes it worse.  The paper TBR mountain is visible; I walk by the jam-packed shelves a dozen times a day.  The e-TBR pile not so much.  If I don't read an ebook within the first 48 hours of purchase, it will languish in the ether, on my hard drive or backed up ( Read more... )

+ The Biochemist sent me info about their trip to town for Thanksgiving week. Yay! We don't usually do really exciting stuff, mostly watch football, go to the movies, eat out, hang out. Which leads to two more happy things ( Read more... )

Q: You know what's scarier than regular drivers who are busy chatting away, holding their cell phone in one hand with the other on the wheel, paying more attention to the conversation than the road?

A: Bus drivers doing the same thing.