{{{Cass}}} I've been there. Not precisely where you are, but crying in the shower because the vacuum broke, oh yes. I have often found similar circumstances to be the beginning of getting better, somehow.

Love your new hair, libkitty. Not least because you look so happy with it!

Travel~ma for Fay and recall~ma (and no surprises) for Stephanie.

Welcome home, Lilty!

I'm getting no love from Yahoo in space shuttle watching.

I hope you had a wonderful trip Lilty!

I'm getting no love from Yahoo in space shuttle watching.

I'm watching on MSNBC. But you need both IE and Windows for this option, I think.

{{Cass}} I hope no other appliances attack today.

libkitty, I LOVE your new cut! You look perky and pretty!

Raq, I can't imagine a book free home. Like, no books whatsoever? Not even a Dr. Seuss or paperback? I honestly cannot even imagine.

I have IE and Windows...I think my Windows Media Player is frakked. Oh well. I'll catch a tape on TV later. Sounds like we have a successful launch?

Sounds like we have a successful launch?

Yep. I mean, nothing unusual so far (but they'll go over the various footage to see if anything came off during the launch).

A woman I lived with when I first moved to New Orleans said she came from a book-free home, that all they ever had to read were magazines, if that. She went go to college, but I think that was not the family's expectation for her.

I can't imagine. Building bookcases for our ever expanding library was a regular family project. Neatly combining our love of books with our love of simple carpentry.

Book free? Except for people who are in such dire economic straits that they're struggling to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads, I cannot understand. I know my mum grew up with very few books, because they were broke, and their father left, during the Great Depression. For her, every book is sacred, and I largely share that philosophy. I can't ever throw away a book. I can now give them away (that took work), but never throw them away.

I would not like a book free library.

I've got a bunch of read-to-pieces paperbacks that aren't going to survive the move. They're probably too battered to move at the yard sale (though a couple might). I'll probably put them in the thrift store's donation box and assuage my guilt by imagining the thrift store people as being the Philistines that tossed them out. But the thrift store has a dumpster and I don't and more room for such things.

I have to admit, I think I did all of my research during my last stint in school on line. I only went to the library to read for pleasure. However, that may be as much due to the subject matter as the times a-changing. I may well have spent much more time in the library if I was still doing History rather than Business.