Finished plowing through tGS. On the whole I liked it, though right now I think I just want to go to sleep, so a more detailed review will have to wait.

Primeval to be resurrected for 13 more episodes.

Hopefully, this will still be on BBC America.

Because really, that's what it's all about. Sharing.

You will all thank me for this later.

http://scifiwire.com/2009/09/the-most-bizarre-image-of.php

(Link is...questionable for work.....)

Feeling like death warmed over this morning -- stayed up until $wife got home from the evening shift at the hospital, and then got up maybe an hour later. Sick a little bit, then was miserable and dozed off and on the rest of the night, achey and with the chills. Oh, and lightheaded. Mustn't forget that.

Not a great morning to have to go outside and clean up a ripped-open bag of trash.

So, it looks like we'll be doing a yard sale in the next couple of months.

As I've been going through stuff, I've come across my old (1980s-era) encyclopedia set in the attic, and am torn about wether to put it out or not.

On the one hand, it's a good 20 or so years old, and most of my reference-searching needs start with Wikipedia and Google these days (and if necessary, there's also various and sundry libraries around). At this point, the sell-by date on my set is almost certainly reached.

On the other hand, I can remember finding my parents' encyclopedia set when I was fairly young, and spending quite a lot of time immersed in it, where I first really started to read up on Greek and Norse mythologies, and read up on various historical events and people. Now that I've got a couple of kids, I wonder if in a few years I drag it down they'll find it the way I found the set my parents had, and will start grabbing volumes and reading through them the way I did.

Personally, I'm leaning towards putting it out at the yard sale, as I've enough other books that are on the shelves, and between them and the Internet I should be all set, but I keep having this nagging feeling that I should hang on to it.

So far (between yesterday and today), I've

• Taken care of a couple of appointments and miscellaneous errands


• Spend a couple of hours each day over the garage, working on cleaning out the rest of the things that were put up there when we moved into the house. Almost eight years ago.


• Hung a dozen or so pictures in various rooms of the house


• Cleaned most of the study


• Shredded the last few months of miscellaneous paperwork


• Ordered new filters for the house air handlers


• Cleaned out three bags of random trash from the basement


• Figured out pricing for some of the collectable-type items that will be going out in the fall yard sale


• Hanging some battery-powered lights in the basement in the event of power failure

Tasks still left include dumping two last bags of sand into the kids' sandbox, replacing the wheel on the wheelbarrow, mowing the lawn, more work upstairs cleaning out stuff over the garage and hanging the last light in the basement.

Fairly productive day so far -- with R at Grammy and Grampy's house, was able to have a bit of a leisurely morning. Out and mowing the lawn by 9 or so (after fertilizing and putting down lime, had a pretty good stretch of a couple of weeks of rain, so by now the lawn was starting to verge on "jungle"), until about 10:30 at which point I'd completed about half of the main lawn (and had the side lawn untouched). Headed off to run a handful of errands, including getting a HD/DVR cable box for the new HD TV, before coming home to finish mowing. Managed to finish the bulk of the outside chores (still have to bust out the weed whacker for a small patch), and managed to shower and get the new cable box connected and going before the thunderstorm that had been threatening hit. And figured out that the central air wasn't working because the breakers had been flipped a while ago and never turned back on.

Maybe get the Boy up, and think about dinner. Perhaps a lad's night out is in order....

Looks like David Eddings is dead.

I didn't really read too much of his after the Malloreon series -- I got through the first couple of Sparhawk books before giving up, but I remember loving the Belgariad and reading my copies of those books near to death.

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