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stoutfellow1. I discovered the other day that, when applying peanut butter to a celery stalk, a fork works better than a knife. It seems easier to shape the PB without slopover.
2. Today, I took Buster to the groomer. His fur had gotten rather badly matted, and they had to cut pretty close - even his ruff. At least he still has his poufy tail. Gracie's turn is next week.
3. On my way back from dropping Buster off, I stopped at Books-a-Million. My overall impression is that they aren't very organized, even by comparison with Borders. (I'm talking about the organization of the books, not of their business details, about which I neither know nor care.) I restricted myself to F/SF, almost entirely with old familiar authors: Weber's Mission of Honor (continuing a series), Hobb's Dragon Keeper (starting a trilogy), Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void (completing a trilogy), Briggs' River Marked (fifth of the Mercy Thompson series), another of the Malazan books, a couple of volumes of the collected Polesotechnic League/Human Empire stories by Anderson, and a collection of Harry Dresden short stories.
4. I also picked up a couple of CDs: Springsteen's Wrecking Ball (I saw, and was impressed by, the video of "We Take Care of Our Own"), and the White Album. I now have all but three of the albums the Beatles issued before the breakup: only For the Beatles, Yellow Submarine, and Let It Be remain. I was actually looking for earlier Springsteen, but they only had one of those, and I went with the new one instead.
5. Tomorrow I'll trot over to the DMV to get my state ID renewed. It expired on my birthday, but I haven't needed it until now; I'm flying out to California next weekend for the annual family get-together (combination Father's Day and my father's birthday). Thursday I'll be meeting with a couple of my students; there's enough time between the appointments that I may start trying to slap together a paper based on my current research. (I've got three papers out - one of them for almost a year now, but no word yet on any of them.) Things are starting to gell, and I think I see how to organize the first-order results.
6. I still have to find out what the texts are for the courses I'll be teaching in fall. I really do need to do some serious prep work before the semester starts.
2. Today, I took Buster to the groomer. His fur had gotten rather badly matted, and they had to cut pretty close - even his ruff. At least he still has his poufy tail. Gracie's turn is next week.
3. On my way back from dropping Buster off, I stopped at Books-a-Million. My overall impression is that they aren't very organized, even by comparison with Borders. (I'm talking about the organization of the books, not of their business details, about which I neither know nor care.) I restricted myself to F/SF, almost entirely with old familiar authors: Weber's Mission of Honor (continuing a series), Hobb's Dragon Keeper (starting a trilogy), Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void (completing a trilogy), Briggs' River Marked (fifth of the Mercy Thompson series), another of the Malazan books, a couple of volumes of the collected Polesotechnic League/Human Empire stories by Anderson, and a collection of Harry Dresden short stories.
4. I also picked up a couple of CDs: Springsteen's Wrecking Ball (I saw, and was impressed by, the video of "We Take Care of Our Own"), and the White Album. I now have all but three of the albums the Beatles issued before the breakup: only For the Beatles, Yellow Submarine, and Let It Be remain. I was actually looking for earlier Springsteen, but they only had one of those, and I went with the new one instead.
5. Tomorrow I'll trot over to the DMV to get my state ID renewed. It expired on my birthday, but I haven't needed it until now; I'm flying out to California next weekend for the annual family get-together (combination Father's Day and my father's birthday). Thursday I'll be meeting with a couple of my students; there's enough time between the appointments that I may start trying to slap together a paper based on my current research. (I've got three papers out - one of them for almost a year now, but no word yet on any of them.) Things are starting to gell, and I think I see how to organize the first-order results.
6. I still have to find out what the texts are for the courses I'll be teaching in fall. I really do need to do some serious prep work before the semester starts.
