No, I won't explain that. She knows who she is. :)
I discovered today that Vernor Vinge's The Witling has been reprinted. Not sure if it was worth $14 but I bought it anyway. Looking at the 1976 date, I wonder if the Snow/Summer theme it shares with Joan Vinge's Snow Queen is from them kicking ideas around as a couple.
Computers in Best Buy: rather quiet, but slow under Vista, even with a gig of RAM. The help said the computers can't take XP -- no drivers -- which makes me nervous about Linuxing them. Damnit, I want a quiet computer. My CPU fan is whining again.
Borders computers claimed the translation of Twelve Kingdoms was in the store, but they lied. I feel bookblocked by bookteasing computers.
I'm wondering how this MP3 is managing to sound scratchy now.
I now own a cast iron skillet, to replace the Teflon I destroyed through turning on the wrong burner. Initial use was not as non-stick as advertised.
I don't remember the last time I got 8 hours of sleep. And I'm even starting to have a more regular and earlier schedule of going to bed; my body just like waking up early. This is not good for grad school.
D-flat Minor is a lot cleaner at the moment; I spent much of Sunday dusting, even moving furniture to clean up some disgusting stuff. This is notable for me; I was raised to keep dishes cleaned nightly, but no regular dusting or vacuuming duty, and the habit from staying with my friends in LA for 6 weeks before Indiana wore off a couple of years ago. I'm feeling kind of proud. The place is still cluttered but I could teach swing dancing again at the moment. The vacuum did a lot of work but I think there's a final layer of thin dust and dropped grit which may need some manual work. Still, woot.
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