In Common with Humans

• 13:21 I’m in a very, very bad mood today. I probably should just unplug the computers & the phone & go back to bed. :-p Not an option, though. #
• 17:58 U.K. Amazon supplier gives away publishers’ books when warehouse closes tinyurl.com/co5sm7 #
• 18:00 Used books, evidently, Bookbarn is a reseller, they lost their warehouse lease. Biggest reseller on Amazon U.K. Not a good sign. #
• 20:24 March, 2009 is Small Press Month. www.smallpressmonth.org/ #
• 11:35 English-language remake of “Let the Right One In” due Jan. 2010: tinyurl.com/d2wjgg #
• 11:41 Seattle Public Library hosting “Harry Potter vs Twilight” debate for teens, 3/21: tinyurl.com/bsd4td #

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• 14:14 Amazon is allowing authors to disable the read-aloud feature on Kindle 2. tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/usitinternetkindleamazoncopyright #
• 15:14 NYT: Convicted felons sentenced to literature studies class instead of jail. tinyurl.com/db4g5h #
• 19:48 No cussing in LA? Hollywood will have to close down! tinyurl.com/ck3ehx #

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• 14:37 Gorgeous sunny day today, supposed to snow for the next 3 days. No snow panic in Pepperell. Grocery store is deserted. This is the country. #
• 22:38 So long to Paul Harvey. Now we’ll never know…The Rest of the Story. 🙁 tinyurl.com/con3u6 #
• 11:50 Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! Happy Saint David’s Day to all who are Welsh, by ancestry or in spirit. 🙂 #

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Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

Happy Saint David’s Day to all who are Welsh by birth, ancestry, or sympathies! 🙂

I couldn’t find daffodils, but I have leeks! I’m making “cock-a-leekie soup” for brunch…sort of. The only chicken in it is a bouillon cube, but it has leeks, potato, carrot, broccoli (okay, cabbage would have been more traditional, but less festive), and it’s simmering away and scenting the house. It’s just started snowing, very lightly. Enjoy some Celtic music today–and be sure you sing something. 🙂

• 12:44 Time mag. on vampire bats in Nicaragua: tinyurl.com/d6n4vf #
• 12:46 I just need a couple more small details for mss 2 before it goes off for a 3rd-party read-through, meanwhile I can do the Indesign template #
• 13:44 Anyone who writes: I worked out to *Stranger Than Fiction* this week, really a sweet story, rec. if you ever fell in love w/ a character #
• 11:50 Hearst Corp. plans e-reader for periodicals & newspapers: tinyurl.com/bnw66e #
• 11:53 NPR’s Maureen Corrigan discusses Dan Simmons’ Drood & Twilight: tinyurl.com/dlhep8 #

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• 15:14 Facebook has posted a “terms of use update” on its blog. blog.facebook.com/ They’re inviting users to give feedback. #
• 16:23 Next week is “Wales Week USA.” www.wales.com/en/content/cms/English/USA/USA.aspx #
• 22:10 second pass of mss. 2 completed, I need to check a few details. I’m answering interview questions for h.s. class projects–3 of them! #

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• 14:29 NYT Books reports on Kindle 2. www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue.html #
• 14:32 www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25blount.htm – Idiots. Adobe Reader “reads aloud,” too. Is the AG boycotting PDFs? #
• 16:25 I’m not positive, but I *think* I just saw a UPS truck go flying east on Heald St.–backwards. 8-( #
• 20:18 “Most Americans believe small business, science and tech leaders will lead the U.S. to a better future… #
• 20:19 …not the news media, government or large corporations.” Zogby poll results – go to Zogby and add your two cents #
• 20:20 www.zogby.com/blog/loader.cfm?p=/2009/02/25/who-will-lead-us-to-a-better-future/ #
• 21:39 Mindfulness eludes me these days, which is why I fill a two-quart tea kettle brim full to make one cup of tea. 🙁 #

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• 13:01 Happy Mardi Gras! Busy Tues here, chores, transfer station week, cooking, New Moon ritual tonight. I’m wearing my MG beads from the Big-E! #
• 13:06 “Count Yorga” vampire actor Robert Quarry has died. tinyurl.com/crapjv #
• 13:08 Publishers Weekly reports that Twilight series is popular in Europe. tinyurl.com/bm4l7r #

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• 18:50 Having let mss 2 rest a couple of days, I’m reading it aloud from the start, doing final edits & adjusting chapter breaks–very unexciting #
• 22:04 My tweets aren’t echoing on Facebook–again. #

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I just won something on eBay for my nephew’s birthday. I had to sit there clicking the Refresh button and watching it, too, because someone outbid me in the last four minutes–which I knew would happen! They’re wasting their time when -I- want something on eBay, though–BWAhahahahahahaha!!!!

Sorry. I’m still stoked. *g*