The Long Weekend, Part the Friday

Might have slept in, but the plumber's here and I didn't want to have a completely manky house to greet him. So I swept, and took down the bras that'd been hanging up to dry since Sunday. Yep, they're dry now. As long as I don't open my blinds, no one will know that I use my curtain rod as a hang-rod. And I did the dishes (well, hid them in the dishwasher) so I could see the counter and made tea.

Hobbes is just absolutely distressed. There's a new person here and he *doesn't want to pet him*! Plus loud noises and clankings in the bathroom and he's become this little black leech. Laurier is of course, hiding under the bed.

30 minutes to books! Booksbooksbooksbooks.

The Long Weekend, Part the Workout

Ow.

So, books? Heavy.

So, computer books? Heavy enough to assert a gravitational pull on geeks. Swear to god.

So, Chris? The poetry section has a bunch of previous Bus Poetry collections if you're interested.

So, hmm. Lunch, then back to the grind.

The Long Weekend, Part the Haul

Heh. So technically, I didn't get my full 25. From the membership. But I did acquire 32 books today for about 50 bucks and some sweat. And I was in and out of the sale in half an hour!

We'll start with a handful of hardback Pratchetts: Sourcery, Pyramids, The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Mort, Wyrd Sisters, Guards! Guards! and Small Gods. Book club editions, but pretty covers and now I can batter my paperbacks to death and not feel guilty.

Some computer books: Two Mac OS X books which will be going straight to work, Apache, PHP/MySQL and StyleSheets manuals.

The Treasure Trove of good, newish Sci-Fi hardbacks: Dragon of Despair, This Rough Magic, This Scepter'd Isle, The Lord of Castle Black, The Outstretched Shadow, Ring of Fire, A Forest of Stars, God's Concubine, American Gods (woo!) and The Anvil of the World (which Jacyn lent me, so I decided I needed my own copy anyway). That's yes, three Mercedes Lackey titles I'd been unwilling to pay full price for, but happily, $5 is not bad. I think I already have a copy of Ring of Fire, so that'll go to Dad or I'll sell it on Amazon.

And the odd stuff: An updated copy of Our Bodies, Our Selves, Beowulf (which I just realized I already have - Amazon!), the Odyssey and the Aeneid, but not the Iliad (dug those out of Poetry, which I set up *all* by myself), Scene of the Crime: a writer's guide to crime-scene investigators, So Easy to Preserve, which should prove useful later in the year (say, about harvest-time), a three-some of Sayers in one volume: Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Unnatural Death, 365 Main Course Salads, and finally What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, which I just checked out of the library on Wednesday, but the single page on the money system was enough for me to pick it up for a dollar.

This won't keep me stocked up until the next sale, but it should keep me in reading material for a month or two. And I'll go back Sunday and see if there are any hidden gleanings to be had.