Sunday, August 28, 2005
Sunday wrap-up: The good, the bad and the odd
Good: I've been listing books pretty steadily. One of the hard things about doing this is getting interested in them and stopping to page through. Some of a lot we are selling on commission are a series of books by John Tyndall, printed in about 1888-9, as an educational series on science of the time. I think my favorite is "Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefacation and infection" but the ones on electricity, light and sound are also very cool.
Times have changed in other ways as well. Today they would not publish a book called "What Happened to Johnston" and subtitle it 'A Sequel to "Twenty Years of Hus'ling"'.... (It's about the man's business experiences. And not THAT kind of business, either. Quit it.)
Bad: I'm compulsively following the news about Hurricane Katrina. I don't know anyone down there personally, but I'm upset on general principles anyway. I think this is going to be the US version of the tsunami, and I worry that worse stuff is coming.
Odd: Last night I had a strange dream that I accidentally posted something to someone's LiveJournal that was deemed annoying. (How THAT could ever happen, I can't imagine.) So someone who belonged to a special LJ community mentioned me, and all the members there started spamming me with angry comments, so many and so fast that the incoming emails overloaded my computer and eventually my ISP. It was a very realistic dream, and I can remember trying all sorts of things to shut it down and break out of the loop, except I couldn't because my computer kept freezing up. I half-woke up and couldn't decide for a little bit if I was dreaming or if it had really happened.
Here's one that DID actually happen. My grandson Zach accidentally shut down the D.A.R.E. pool party on Friday. He and his friend spotted a strange animal, later ID'd as a muskrat, and accidentally chased it into the pool. So the pool was evacuated until it was captured. I don't know what exactly was done with the animal afterwards.
Caro points out that my tendency towards weird events gravitating my way apparently breeds true....
Times have changed in other ways as well. Today they would not publish a book called "What Happened to Johnston" and subtitle it 'A Sequel to "Twenty Years of Hus'ling"'.... (It's about the man's business experiences. And not THAT kind of business, either. Quit it.)
Bad: I'm compulsively following the news about Hurricane Katrina. I don't know anyone down there personally, but I'm upset on general principles anyway. I think this is going to be the US version of the tsunami, and I worry that worse stuff is coming.
Odd: Last night I had a strange dream that I accidentally posted something to someone's LiveJournal that was deemed annoying. (How THAT could ever happen, I can't imagine.) So someone who belonged to a special LJ community mentioned me, and all the members there started spamming me with angry comments, so many and so fast that the incoming emails overloaded my computer and eventually my ISP. It was a very realistic dream, and I can remember trying all sorts of things to shut it down and break out of the loop, except I couldn't because my computer kept freezing up. I half-woke up and couldn't decide for a little bit if I was dreaming or if it had really happened.
Here's one that DID actually happen. My grandson Zach accidentally shut down the D.A.R.E. pool party on Friday. He and his friend spotted a strange animal, later ID'd as a muskrat, and accidentally chased it into the pool. So the pool was evacuated until it was captured. I don't know what exactly was done with the animal afterwards.
Caro points out that my tendency towards weird events gravitating my way apparently breeds true....
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