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Oh, Internet, I've MISSED You!
Jun. 12th, 2011 12:44 pmBless me Internet, for I have sinned.
It has been 48 hours since I last checked email. 72 since I last read my flist. And I am an entire week behind on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
holmesian_news.
In other words - I'm about to take many hours and try to catch up, but if there's something I really need to know, drop it in comments.
The Team Wench Yard Sale was a success. The official final count hasn't been made, but it's around $2400 for fibromyalgia research. ( More about the sale. And about Velvet Jesus. )
Between the yard sale and my last couple runs to the Book Thing, I've scored several interesting books (and smirked to see my own contributions up on the shelves:
- A leather-bound The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. (The cover's almost ripped off, so I'm going to have to cover the leather with book tape, unfortunately. Still.) Sign of the Four, White Company, The Firm of Girdlestone, Study in Scarlet, and a few Sherlock shorts. (What, no Baskervilles?)
- Hardback "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" - contemporary detective stories. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redpanda13, did these come from you?)
And my two favorites, the novelty cookbooks:
- Benson & Hedges 100's presents: 100 of the World's Greatest Recipes by James Beard
- The Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places
The first is from the 70s and presumably came when you bought x cartons of cigarettes; the second is a 1950 reprint of a 1940 original and contains addresses so that you may drive your brand-new automobile to these strange and exotic locales and eat the tempting-sounding food. Well, mostly tempting-sounding food. I wouldn't have deep-fried pickerel (Sid's Restaurant of Michigan) unless I was starving.
It has been 48 hours since I last checked email. 72 since I last read my flist. And I am an entire week behind on
holmesian_news.In other words - I'm about to take many hours and try to catch up, but if there's something I really need to know, drop it in comments.
The Team Wench Yard Sale was a success. The official final count hasn't been made, but it's around $2400 for fibromyalgia research. ( More about the sale. And about Velvet Jesus. )
Between the yard sale and my last couple runs to the Book Thing, I've scored several interesting books (and smirked to see my own contributions up on the shelves:
- A leather-bound The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. (The cover's almost ripped off, so I'm going to have to cover the leather with book tape, unfortunately. Still.) Sign of the Four, White Company, The Firm of Girdlestone, Study in Scarlet, and a few Sherlock shorts. (What, no Baskervilles?)
- Hardback "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" - contemporary detective stories. (
redpanda13, did these come from you?)And my two favorites, the novelty cookbooks:
- Benson & Hedges 100's presents: 100 of the World's Greatest Recipes by James Beard
- The Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places
The first is from the 70s and presumably came when you bought x cartons of cigarettes; the second is a 1950 reprint of a 1940 original and contains addresses so that you may drive your brand-new automobile to these strange and exotic locales and eat the tempting-sounding food. Well, mostly tempting-sounding food. I wouldn't have deep-fried pickerel (Sid's Restaurant of Michigan) unless I was starving.
