Laziness

I meant to do quite a bit this long weekend.

You know how that song ends, don't you?

I do have a couple of LJ posts - one on over-powered heroes, one on Skowronek - percolating, but they haven't gelled yet.

Lest the weekend go by without anything of substance, though, here's a poem by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844); it's not quite a Memorial Day poem, but it still seems apropos to me.

( The Soldier's Dream )

Four Hours Later...

...I can now say that I have achieved something this weekend. Most of the cardboard detritus in my computer room has now been broken down, ready for the recycler. There are just a couple of problems.

Most of the cardboard made up boxes in which books had come. (In a few cases, the books were still in them, one of them dating back to 1998...) A significant fraction of those books are still in the computer room, as there is no shelf space left for them. (Almost all of my bookcases are already double-shelved, with additional books on their sides on top of the shelved books.) Thus, the computer room is only slightly less cluttered than it was. (At least I no longer have to hyperextend to get to the books on the right side of the Britannica case.) (That case holds the Britannica, plus various Britannica Yearbooks, plus the Annals of America and the Great Books series, which I purchased along with the encyclopedia.)

The other problem is this. Of course, the number one source of those book boxes is Amazon. Guess what else I did this weekend?

[Harry Summers, On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War; Patricia Wrede, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles; Rodney Stark, One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism; Harry Turtledove, Return Engagement; Sonia Singh, Goddess for Hire; Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation; Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith; Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane; Keith Kendig, Conics. Blame the American Mathematical Monthly, which, in a review, recommended that last book. "Nobody can eat just one..."]

Sometime this summer, I'll have to get some more bookshelves.