Baby steps and Adult Points

Two small changes; hopefully a big impact.

1) The weather station is hung on an otherwise useless bit of wall, meaning it is no longer in front of books or in cat knock over range.

2) Instead of taking the mail on a tour of the house (pick up by front door, sort in kitchen, shred in library, recycle in living room) a small station for everything has been set up in the center hall. No more kitchen clutter, no more scenic tours of the house!

It's just the difference of hammering in a nail and moving some small furniture, but I feel like I've earned a fair amount of Adult Points.

Chis Hadfield is the coolest man on and off Earth

I'm probably the bazillionth person to point to Cmdr Hadfield singing "Space Oddity" from space, but that's no reason not to jump on the bandwagon.

Chris Hadfield is possibly the most impressive geek-made-good I know of. Not only does he sing from space and do science experiements for kids (the linked article links out to the youtube of him showing what happens when you wring out a washcloth in space), he's gotten up to all kinds of lighthearted research and humor -- topped with the epic moment when science fiction melded with science fact in the coolest set of tweets in EVER.






(tinyurl leads to Washington Post article w/embedded vid.)

Weird Week at the Little Free Library

So on Sunday I stripped out (and dried down) the Little Free Library. When I refilled it, it looked like this (* means "From Malice):

TOP SHELF: The Touchstone*, Playing for Pizza, The Poisonwood Bible, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Runaway Jury, The Time Traveller's Wife, The Bridges of Madison County, Death of an Englishman*, A Year in Provence, Soduku puzzle magazine, The Fannie Farmer Cookbook.

MIDDLE SHELF: Training for Dummies, Pilates for Dummies, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Heads in Beds, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil, Brothers in Battle, Issac's Storm, The Pillars of the Earth

Wife and Bridges were gone by evening. The soduku and cookbook were gone by the time I left for work Monday.

I hadn't checked it since, so when I went to get the recycle bins from the curb, I thought "Hey, let's make sure nobody's giving me horribly mildewed books."

They hadn't. However, the book line up now reads:

TOP SHELF: The Touchstone, Playing for Pizza, The Posionwood Bible, High Fidelity, Brothers in Battle (it's rare for books to be moved), The Runaway Jury, Death of an Englishman, A Year in Provence, Sunset Limited, Immoral, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

MIDDLE SHELF: Pilates for Dummies, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Heads in Beds, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil, The Volunteer, The Burning Wire, The Pillars of Earth.

The books on the bottom shelf haven't changed, but the single audiobook is not one of the two that I put out Sunday (My One Hundred Adventures and one of the Lee Child Reacher novels). I'm fairly certain Mennonite came from the LFL; I'm pretty sure Immoral and Susnset Limited did not. (To be honest, I can't remember about High Fidelity either way).

All of the books that have gone are ones that recently came from the Book Thing. I'm wrestling hard with the impulse to go up there *yet again* this weekend. I really, really, shouldn't; my stock is bursting at the seams. But the hunting has been so good the last couple of go arounds, for both the LFL and me. I'm like a rat pressing a bar for pellets (or pressing a gas pedal for books).