Happy b-day Trudy!
Bonny, great to see your pixels. Wow, what an ordeal. Glad to hear you are home and on the mend. Speedy recovery~ma!
ND, great to hear things are still improving. tons of ~ma for you. Pix, how are you doing? Holding up well? Y'all got a bunch of folks down here in Orange County thinking about ya, and sending all sorts of happy/healing thoughts.
Sean & Laga, I feel your aches & pains. 3rd day in a row of 11-14 hours. Yesterday the pedometer clocked me in at twice the average amount of steps.
I just watched a video called, "don't put lighters in a blender" and now I really want to.
Here, Laga, watch this video called "Don't make out with Polter-Cow."
Well why don't you come over here and
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hey what?... dang.
{{{bonny}}} I'm so sorry you had to go through all of this, but I'm glad that you were treated.
I'm still sick and weak, but I have to go to the library and return a book. I'm coming back straight after it.
{{{Shir}}} I hope the library is close by.
Bonnie, that all sounds so scary. I'm glad to hear you got good treatment, though.
My last Sunday at the church I've been going to for five years (we'll be packing and collecting things from storage all day next Sunday, before we move on Monday). It's been really important to me. I'm bringing in a couple of bottles of wine for coffee time. A church full of high Anglicans should appreciate this.
Listening to a reflection on the radio about the change in the way we read books - libraries becoming less popular, more people buying books, especially hardbacks, phenomena like Oprah's book club, whether e-books are poor substitutes for handling physical books (the speaker concludes not), etc. Interesting.
Huh. I've been going to the library more lately than I have in years because they let you read their books for free.
What changed my library-going habits was the fallout of Prop 13 in California. Libraries cut back the acquisitions and especially their hours with each passing year. So I started buying books because I could pretty much depend on my local library not having them. Or not being open at the hour I needed them.
Of course, the economy and my disability have forced me out of my home and into a much smaller space. I sold & gave away tons of books and I'm sure I'm going to have to lose even more. I don't have enough $$ to buy a Kindle and re-buy the books I had that were even released for Kindle. I'll be back to the library and just trying to grin and bear it through the inconveniences.
