I have a lot of books.

[melannen]

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.

The next major organizing project (since my room is actually pretty much neat right now) is getting my computers together. My files are spread out between four hard drives, two memory chips, three internet accounts, and a drawer of (mostly unlabelled) CDs. And two of the hard drives I'd like to reformat and put a different OS on, but first I have to get the files together. This is made complicated by the states of the computers in question. I should probably start by getting my desktop computer set up, which involves first finding a monitor for it, then seeing if I can get it hooked up and getting internet through the router; then seeing if I can get the CD-RW and the USB working. If I can't get that computer to read my memory cards (It hasn't since I installed linux), I will need to pull files off the non-internet laptop onto the USB key, take that to another computer, upload the files to the net, then download them onto the third computer. Which would be trés annoying. Then once all the files are on that computer, sort them out and write backups to CDs. And possibly reformat and install windows: I haven't decided yet. Then wipe the new laptop, and put XP on it, in the hope that the wireless card will magically start working again. If it doesn't, I may succumb and disassemble them both again... But that is far in the future.

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.

Comments

[kidzero.livejournal.com]

I think I must check out Principia Discordia sometime soon.

You have what might well be the coolest set of mood icons on all of LJ. That one in particular.

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

If you're just lookin' for "a monitor," and don't mind it being CRT, check the Salvation Army store on Mountain Road; they've been getting a lot of computer-y things, lately.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I started in the dead of winter, so my biggest challenge was actually finding something every day. I hope you go through with it! I'd like to see what you have in your yard, for starters. Good luck!

hail eris! hail sam and max!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

You crack me up, little buddy. (nice icon, I mean)

*embarassed*

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I read the Principia in an online version, back at the apex of my geeky days. (.. yes, there was a time when I was geekier than I am now.) It's ... interesting. Not a very long read.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can probably pick one up cheap used without much trouble; I'm planning on using that computer mostly for file storage, and they're often almost given away at yard sales. I just need to *remember* to look for one next time I'm out.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd like to find out what I have in my yard, too! Winter might've been easier: at least then the choice was *limited*.

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Do what they used to do to my sister in elementary school; pin a note to your jacket~!

Re: *embarassed*

[kidzero.livejournal.com]

My knowledge of Discordians comes primarily from the old Illuminati card game (I have the novel around here somewhere, but never finished it. Must fix that sometime).

yes, there was a time when I was geekier than I am now

And this is a bad thing how? :)