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Someday, I will make a post that is not about books.
Mom took me yard-sailing this morning and we bought some junk. Yep. Some books - mostly really old hardcover novels, including a 1950s Tom & Huck with illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Also, for $.25, I got a set of Angelic Messenger Cards with book, which is *hilarious* - it averages 1/3 dippy new age buzzwords by *word count*, and is the most useless thing imaginable.
Also, I bought some little tiny miniature pressurized canisters of C02, which came with instructions for making any liquid into soda pop. Unfortunately, to do that, you needed the special mixing container. However, I believe (though Mom disagrees with me) that the mysterious Thing which was found in our basement and used in a prop in last fall's high school musical was the mixing nozzle. Which would be awesome. Even if not, though - I now have seven teeny-tiny metal canisters of pressurized CO2! Imagine the possibilities! Also in the category of random junk, we got a coffee can full of really old buttons. Over three dozen of them were carved shell, probably (by feel, and also this being Maryland) oyster shell; a couple were darker iridescent - Abalone? Mussel? Dunno. Probably not valuable, but still neat.
In other news, it turns out that my new copy of Le Mort Darthur is *missing* some bits - ten scattered pages near the end of Book VIII were mistakenly left blank rather than printed. So I have trotted out my pens and inks and my crabbed hedge-uncial script, and I'm copying out the missing parts from the Project Gutenberg etext onto the blank pages. I'm actually managing a density that's about the same as the printed parts, too, so it may actually *fit*. But it's so *slow* and I have to take a break about every hour in order to prevent severe pain in the back and wrists. If I were a monk, I'd be so glad of having to go sing for one hour out of every three. My illuminated capitals are rather unsightly so far, too.
Also, I bought some little tiny miniature pressurized canisters of C02, which came with instructions for making any liquid into soda pop. Unfortunately, to do that, you needed the special mixing container. However, I believe (though Mom disagrees with me) that the mysterious Thing which was found in our basement and used in a prop in last fall's high school musical was the mixing nozzle. Which would be awesome. Even if not, though - I now have seven teeny-tiny metal canisters of pressurized CO2! Imagine the possibilities! Also in the category of random junk, we got a coffee can full of really old buttons. Over three dozen of them were carved shell, probably (by feel, and also this being Maryland) oyster shell; a couple were darker iridescent - Abalone? Mussel? Dunno. Probably not valuable, but still neat.
In other news, it turns out that my new copy of Le Mort Darthur is *missing* some bits - ten scattered pages near the end of Book VIII were mistakenly left blank rather than printed. So I have trotted out my pens and inks and my crabbed hedge-uncial script, and I'm copying out the missing parts from the Project Gutenberg etext onto the blank pages. I'm actually managing a density that's about the same as the printed parts, too, so it may actually *fit*. But it's so *slow* and I have to take a break about every hour in order to prevent severe pain in the back and wrists. If I were a monk, I'd be so glad of having to go sing for one hour out of every three. My illuminated capitals are rather unsightly so far, too.
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Should I cancel my not-yet-shipped Amazon order and go buy them tomorrow?
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Do you have any plans for next weekend?
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Nope. It's Mem. Day, right? And Strawberry festival? I haven't decided if I'm coming home or not. I will be a pager slave, though.
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Mom seems to think you're coming home. D'you have Monday off? I'm going to get rid of some books at the Strawberry Festival. Just so you know.
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I have Mon. off, but I can get lots of overtime if I work ... we haven't figured out who's working yet, though.
nooooooooooooooo not the books!!
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Ooooh yes I will! (*If* I get them in the catalog by then.) Plus, I'm planning to go through the sheet music and see if there's any that nobody wants, and maybe also some of the books in the library.
What do you need overtime pay for? Spoiling your cat?
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(Anonymous) 2006-05-21 02:14 am (UTC)(link)no subject
I might have to come home just so I can make sure you don't sell all my books. d-:
um, cat always needs spoiled? Also, I always need more dvds. And, if I go to work on Monday then I can get rid of the pager. Meh, I dunno. We'll plan who's working sometime next week.
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unlesseven *if* we have doubles of *everything*! So. If I do it and you aren't here, I'll tag 'em on LT and let people (including you) claim them first.Of course you always need more DVDs! How could I have forgotten. *roll eyes*
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Copying over into the book is turning into a major art project; it's great fun! I'll probably put up pictures of the first spread once the illuminations are finished.