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I received two jobs today, one in the morning for Wednesday and a later one, for today. Fortunately, the reference sent along with the job was very helpful, so I was able to take care of the job within a couple of hours.
I then lay down to take my blood pressure. The doc had prescribed a new med and I was gratified to see that my BP has dropped down to where I like to see it (and this new med costs about 20% of what the old stuff cost, so that makes me doubly happy). Unfortunately, I fell asleep after measuring my BP and napped for an hour, which normally wouldn't be such a big deal, but Galina had pulled into the driveway somewhere around 4 am and had gotten only a few hours of sleep when I came home to take care of some packages, received the second call, and asked if she could stand in for me at the store (which she graciously agreed to do).
I agreed to the October gig in Houston.
As a result of reading one of LJ friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bandicoot's recent posts, I visited the BookCrossing.com site, which I had visited previously a little while ago as a result of another pointer, but only in passing and really not paying attention. The idea behind the site is for people to register books there, and then to "release" them, either "into the wild" (for example, leaving them in a coffee shop, in a seat-back pocket on a plane, or what have you) or by giving them to friends or charities.
A person who - one way or another - receives a book can go online, find the book's record (said book having been inscribed with a short message about the site and its registration number) and make a journal entry, creating a sort of weblog for the book as it travels around. (Presumably, the finder, having read the book and made a journal entry, will send it on its way to another eventual reader.) The site boasts about 600,000 books so registered.
Anyway, as the site is free, I took the liberty of signing up (as - who else? - AlexPGP) and plan to release some books soonest. The general idea behind the site does seem a little off-the-wall, but if you think about it, the idea behind LiveJournal is a little counterintuitive the first time it's pitched at you ("What, maintain a journal on the Web? That anyone can read? Are you nuts?), at least that was my initial reaction, back in the "Early Adopter" days, though that didn't stop me.
In any event, if there's one thing I've gotten used to in my life, it's that lots of joy is to be found off the beaten track and away from conventional ideas. In this particular case, this approach may turn out to be helpful in getting rid of a lot of books that, let's face it, are really not salable unless I use them to stock a used book store (not bloody likely), but which also weigh heavily on my shelves. (You can check my "progress" by clicking the second link, above. There's only one or two books there now, the result of my slowly and surely feeling my way through a registration.)
Cheers...
I then lay down to take my blood pressure. The doc had prescribed a new med and I was gratified to see that my BP has dropped down to where I like to see it (and this new med costs about 20% of what the old stuff cost, so that makes me doubly happy). Unfortunately, I fell asleep after measuring my BP and napped for an hour, which normally wouldn't be such a big deal, but Galina had pulled into the driveway somewhere around 4 am and had gotten only a few hours of sleep when I came home to take care of some packages, received the second call, and asked if she could stand in for me at the store (which she graciously agreed to do).
I agreed to the October gig in Houston.
As a result of reading one of LJ friend
bandicoot's recent posts, I visited the BookCrossing.com site, which I had visited previously a little while ago as a result of another pointer, but only in passing and really not paying attention. The idea behind the site is for people to register books there, and then to "release" them, either "into the wild" (for example, leaving them in a coffee shop, in a seat-back pocket on a plane, or what have you) or by giving them to friends or charities. A person who - one way or another - receives a book can go online, find the book's record (said book having been inscribed with a short message about the site and its registration number) and make a journal entry, creating a sort of weblog for the book as it travels around. (Presumably, the finder, having read the book and made a journal entry, will send it on its way to another eventual reader.) The site boasts about 600,000 books so registered.
Anyway, as the site is free, I took the liberty of signing up (as - who else? - AlexPGP) and plan to release some books soonest. The general idea behind the site does seem a little off-the-wall, but if you think about it, the idea behind LiveJournal is a little counterintuitive the first time it's pitched at you ("What, maintain a journal on the Web? That anyone can read? Are you nuts?), at least that was my initial reaction, back in the "Early Adopter" days, though that didn't stop me.
In any event, if there's one thing I've gotten used to in my life, it's that lots of joy is to be found off the beaten track and away from conventional ideas. In this particular case, this approach may turn out to be helpful in getting rid of a lot of books that, let's face it, are really not salable unless I use them to stock a used book store (not bloody likely), but which also weigh heavily on my shelves. (You can check my "progress" by clicking the second link, above. There's only one or two books there now, the result of my slowly and surely feeling my way through a registration.)
Cheers...
