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forgive me if there ends up being 4 copies of this post. Windows Live Writer is being odd this morning I’ve mentioned the booklist a few times but I have never really explained it. The booklist, in it’s current incarnation is an Excel spreadsheet that lists every book I owned over a roughly 20 year period. It start in 1985 as a list in a notebook of all the books in my possession, after I bought some duplicates at a used bookstore because the cover art was different. It was handwritten, eventually rewritten into a loose leaf binder alphabetically. I entered it all into whatever the DOS based spreadsheet program was on the 286 DH bought in 1991 and it eventually evolved into an Excel spreadsheet with categories and subcategories and could be sorted by author or date or topic etc. It even spent a brief period as an Access database, but not successfully, so it went back to Excel. It was handy to have a spreadsheet to use when I was learning to do different things in Excel so it ended up w...

I have a mixed bag of photos this week. The rainy weather is keeping me in the house still First we have the kittens at almost 2 weeks old. Mayhem had a dentist appointment (He brought a friend with him)   We had spaghetti for dinner one night You can’t keep the baby dinos out of spaghetti, they love it so much. Havoc’s weekly winner For even more weekly winners check out Lotus at Sarcastic Mom every Sunday

Sitting cozily next to the 2 shelves of fantasy (and overflowing on to them) are the science fiction books (not including the works of Douglas Adams, which are in a special category all their own – Holy and UnPurgeable). The scifi books were the victims of the hard core purge a few years ago. There were 183 then and only about 60 some books remain. I have 159 books tagged with sci fi in Library Thing, which makes me wonder what 20 or so books I have mis-tagged, either in the booklist or Library Thing. Possibly the Thomas Covenant series,… pause while I consider matching up 183 books in Library Thing…no, not today. I haven’t picked up one of these books since that purge. But I can’t quite let go of them. They are the products of my happy, prosperous, child free days in the late 90’s, when I was making lots of money in the phone business and chatting on Doctor Who email lists. I can’t give these books up! I know some of the authors! well…’know them’ in the way you ‘know’ people w...

This isn’t about books this time. Yesterday I was feeling the beginning of a stomach virus coming on, the one that half my family has had in the past week. So I was laying in bed, idly browsing the web. I realized I had to log in everywhere I went, which is unusual. If I closed Firefox and reopened it, I had to relog in everywhere again. My first thought was VIRUS so I ran Malwarebytes and searched the web. While cleaning up what I thought was the problem all my Firefox user data was deleted.  All of it – bookmarks, history, logins & passwords, add ons. GONE. Not even system restore could bring it back. So now I am rebuilding it all. I’m trying to be positive about this. There were an unworkable number of bookmarks, I had disabled several of the add ons. Everything that I used, I will miss and will find again, resulting in an easier to navigate set of bookmarks & less clutter. Nothing is gone forever from the interwebs Right??? Seriously, I want to cry. But it...

  The itty bitty kittys are moving around a lot more

I was going to do a book related tribute because it’s all things books here until the purge is done, but I was sidetracked this morning by a couple of dental appointments. Today was Mayhem’s first cleaning. He and Havoc had simultaneous appointments and DH came along so each boy would have some company. Mayhem’s major concern about everything these days is “How long is this going to take?” said in an impatient tone. Anything that takes longer than about 10 seconds is too long. And forget opening his mouth for anyone, to do anything but complain things are taking too long. The hygienist was great though. She went through all the different tools she used, demonstrated them on his clenched closed teeth and gently coaxed him to open his mouth. Over and over and over again. Every time she stopped doing something the teeth snapped shut and a whine about ‘how much longer’ escaped the barely open lips. Repeat.  Three times. I would have been issuing threats about Star Wars ga...

I’ve mentioned the booklist a few times but I have never really explained it. The booklist, in it’s current incarnation is an Excel spreadsheet that lists every book I owned over a roughly 20 year period. It start in 1985 as a list in a notebook of all the books in my possession, after I bought some duplicates at a used bookstore because the cover art was different. It was handwritten, eventually rewritten into a loose leaf binder alphabetically. I entered it all into whatever the DOS based spreadsheet program was on the 286 DH bought in 1991 and it eventually evolved into an Excel spreadsheet with categories and subcategories and could be sorted by author or date or topic etc. It even spent a brief period as an Access database, but not successfully, so it went back to Excel. It was handy to have a spreadsheet to use when I was learning to do different things in Excel so it ended up with a lot of information I didn’t exactly need or originally intend to track. I can tell you how many...