Mom took me out shopping today. *Sigh*.

And that doesn't even include the Star Wars junk. But fortunately, I managed to wheedle the money for all of it out of her, since I have exactly $2 cash at the moment, and that was borrowed from my sister. (Not that it was that much. Everything at Goodwill was half-price, and the dollar store was 75% off, and all the yard sale people were desperate to sell, since it was raining.)

In other news -- DONE! All the books are in the LT catalog! (Well, not all of them. All of the ones I originally intended to put in -- all of the ones that I am currently exerting at least partial ownership over, let's put it that way.) 2,122 books, 1,025 of them SF (plus 205 YA, most of which are also SF). I also went through and tagged all of the ones I've read. 1,074 out of 2,122 - just over half. I'm not sure which number is sillier!

There's still some tagging and duplicate-finding and stuff that needs doing, and possibly some more books to add, but that can be done anytime, and I'm declaring myself finished.

( very boring computer woes )

Right now, most of my un-backed-up files are photos, and most of them are the pictures I've been taking of every wild flowering plant I've seen for the past two years. Maybe I'll actually get myself together and start posting them one-species-at-a-time to this journal, or to big_backyard. Reading those new field guides I got today makes me want to go out and use them. Really really want to. But since I found urbpan's 365 Urban Species project, I've felt even more painfully inadequate to that task than ever. Perhaps I should start with trees: there are something like two dozen tree species in our yard, and I *think* I can identify them all. Maybe. With Mom to back me up.