stoutfellow

1. While continuing my cataloging, I discovered, inside a book, a set of nineteen 25-cent stamps. I shall have to find out what the Post Office has in the way of intermediate-value stamps, to bring them up to the current rate; I'd hate to waste them.

2. For some time now, my right arm has been giving me trouble. First, I began having intermittent aches in the bicep; that has been going on for a month or more. For the last week or so, I've been waking up with a sore elbow as well. I've been trying to figure out what I could be doing to cause this, and it finally occurred to me that it might be the coffee grinder. The required motion is rather vigorous, and many days I do it two or three times, so.... I'm going to switch back to the electric grinder for the next month, and see if that helps any.

3. I just started reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Lovely prose; Lee has her eccentricities - longish, oddly punctuated sentences, not Faulknerian but in that direction - but they're fading from my awareness. It reminds me a bit - but only a bit - of Flannery O'Connor. I should read some O'Connor. Heaven knows I've got enough of her work around.

4. A Borders has opened up just the other side of 159. I've paid one visit, just checking things out, and the book selection looks pretty good. (The choices seem a bit odd - lots of this, not as much as you might expect of that - but there's some interesting stuff. They have a fairly sizeable offering of manga, and I might give that a try.) The music section looks promising, too - a large selection of jazz, for example.