Dear Tim, you will appreciate the MATH of this. You only get to keep 3x the number of boxes of things you have sold on eBay in the last seven years. That is a super fair number and you have to recognize the validity of it.

For some reason, this reminds me of the TV ads I saw in Shanghai.

Mine got smaller and my arch got higher. Explain that.

I have no idea why, but almost every single pair of shoes I had (or at least the ones I actually wore) were slightly too big after chemo.

still flat footed as can be though.

I have no idea why, but almost every single pair of shoes I had (or at least the ones I actually wore) were slightly too big after chemo.

That is weird!

It was, yes!

I need to download 5 or 6 books for vacation reading. Anyone have any recommendations?

Either of Gillian Flynn's earlier two books, Dark Places and Sharp Objects. I loved the last two Alice Hoffman novels I read, The Red Garden and The Story SIsters.

Shall I recommend a different one here than on FB? The Eyre Affair.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is a cute episodic novel heavily influenced by Firefly. Except with more aliens. And more sex. And alien sex. It wasn't the best thing since sliced bread, but it's a nice lightweight novel, and it's pretty cheap.

Sherwood Smith's Rondo Allegro is a fun drama/romance set during the Napoleonic wars in France, Spain and England. There is a marriage of convenience, and lots of opera, and battles at sea, and evil in-laws, and so forth. I really enjoyed it.

The Martian by Andy Weir is basically Apollo 13 set now, on Mars: an American astronaut gets stranded on Mars and has to figure out how to survive while folks on Earth slowly realize he's not dead. It's hella fun, although a bit heavy on the science.

All of those sound great!

I think alien sex may be the winner though

I'm currently reading London Under by Peter Ackroyd and it's a pretty interesting read so far. [link]

I quite enjoyed The Martian!!