OMG FREE BOOKS!!!

As a bibliophile and a technophiliac, I have to tell you all about this. Yes I know you already got the email.

Amazon is now in Beta for their new Kindle for PC! If you don't have it yet, you need it. It's free and takes about 30 seconds to download. Get it here:

Amazon Kindle Store

After you download it, look through the books for Kindle here:

Kindle Books

Now, here's the thing: when you select a genre, you can sort it lowest to highest by price to view the free books. Yes, free books. And many are very cheap (under $1 to download--cheaper than a garage sale practically). I like the Science Fiction books (there are many fantastic fiction and fantasy titles as well, and non-fic like cooking, history, and autobiographies):

Science Fiction Kindle Books

The fantastic part is that all of these titles are transferable, which means when I eventually upgrade to a Kindle anything I downloaded (free or purchased), I can move over to my Kindle! How cool is that!

Once you "buy" some free books, you go into your Kindle for PC and select "Sync and Check for New Items" in the Menu tab at the upper right hand corner, and all your downloaded stuff will pop up on the Kindle for PC home page area, ready to read. (Note: there are thousands of free and under $1 books, as well as non-Amazon books you can find elsewhere that are compatible.)

Also, today is my 2-year marriage anniversary with Mr. B. Our 8-year anniversary was back on the 9th. However, he is out of town. But later, I will be treating myself to our traditional fancy dinner at Subway and watching FlashForward with him over Google chat. We're very tech-nouveau as couples go. :)

Happy (FREE BOOKS!) Downloading!

Alula

Lonely...I'm so lonely...

I'm sitting here listening to my Blue October channel on Pandora, being lonely. I looked through a friend's wife's photo album of their kid born last July, and suddenly realized, I think, why people have kids. Damn she looks happy.

No, I do not want one anytime soon. (Nor am I drunk right now. Yeah, I can see you thinking it!)

But I am is sick of school. My give-a-damn's broken, as it were, and I think I'm okay hitting an 80% for my final projects this semester--none of them are particularly inspiring to me.

However, I have been given a lovely opportunity at work to beta a really cool product that's getting released to the public on December 3rd, and that really has been inspiring. I swear I love this job so much it's the only thing keeping me in school through these rough times.

Today we had the first big Christmas craft sale of the season, and Q really raked it in yesterday. Today was a bit of a bust due to heavy snow last night and this morning keeping the crowds away. We collected a bunch of cards and I had personal conversations with some of the crafters, getting email addresses for our online site. Fuzzy noticed early on these people don't like the word "consignment", because those businesses "screw them over." All in all, a pretty successful endeavor, as it looks like there is a lot of interest in such a site.

But I am now in an overly sentimental mood and my husband leaves again tomorrow. Poop.

And I have homework to do. Double poop.

I'm going to write a book this week. And I'm probably going to put up the Christmas decorations on the site early. I'm sorry if this annoys anyone; read my post on Slacker Productivity for the reason why this happens every finals season, and doubly so during holiday sentimentality.

In which DoHP makes a post about WoW

Fuzzy: don't pay attention if you don't want to. I know the rest of these goobers play.

I don't want to make another work post, and my knitting is nothing paticullarly exciting at the moment, and I haven't gone through my pictures from my tourist trap weekend, but I want to post something. And my dryer is sloooooooow.

So y'all get a World of Warcraft blither.

I've been feeling kinda meh about my hunters lately. One of them can go do big epic shiny things, if anyone ever needed dps for them, or if my connection to level 80 dungeons wasn't like swiss cheese. The other one is kinda stuck in Theramore (I still swear there's a "where a bear? There a bear!" joke in that name somewhere).

But I have a druid. She's spoiled as all get out with a dual spec (balance (pew pew lazer budige!)/resto (imagine the tree dance to this, also healy goodness)), and heirloom shoulders (nom nom 10% xp bonus!). She is also crazy fun to play. She's currently 5 levels into Outland (went at 58, will stay 'till 68, No, I don't care what Mr. B says) and is instancing her little leaves off. Yes, PuG healing is significantly less stressful than work, that's how bad work is.

Sometimes I feel like the worst tree in history, like that one BRD run, but BRD. That dungeon is just painful. And we kept having to replace people that either d/c'd or left. I went through it 3 times before actually killing the last boss. I really do like the bite size of Outland and Northrend instances. You can take a short break from questing, do the instance in about 30-45 minutes and go back to what you were doing. Oh, not old world instances. Those you have to go, "what do I want to do with my game time? Hmmm, I want to do an instance." But over 60 instances have DKs. Which vary from competant job doers to "Omg I death gripped that thing off the tank look at my awesome bad dps lol!"

There was more to this, but my dryer just beeped at me to come help it. May be more later...

Socks!

I had two 10 dollar coupons for a clothing store, Mr. Q is in desperate need of new socks. I though getting a pack of socks for 10 dollars would not be a problem. At the store I discovered that mens socks go up to size 12, Mr. Q is a 13! Then I remember his mother telling me, " Its really hard finding socks big enough for Mr. Q and his brother". I spent 30 min looking for socks and finally found three pair for 18 dollars! GOOD GRIEF! They had better be made of gold! Twenty dollars off, and I still paid 16 dollars for 6 pairs of socks.

Business Idea

Ladies,
I got just a random idea that popped into my head yesterday. For the online store what about turning it into a online craft sale and I can market to the other crafters we all see at the craft sales? People that don't want to manage their own website and Ebay is a little congested, its just an idea and I have to work out the details. Well let me know what you think.

Fuzzy

I found the edge.

Ladies,

I will not be going into details of the last week. Let's suffice it to say that the universe has taken from me, and I am waiting for the laws of karma to giveth back. In abundance. The universe owes me in abundance.

I just got back from the grocery store after buying food for movie night tomorrow. I squeezed this in after work and school and an emergency trip to the bank and dropping off our voting ballots. I ate dinner in the car across from another young woman dressed professionally who looked like she was also freakin' exhausted and not able to eat an actual meal. I thought about the Lakota translation I have to do tonight for Thursday because I have work straight up to my group project meeting tomorrow night for the project which is due Friday and presented on Saturday at class.

Then I got home and realized that movie night happens on Tuesday, and today is Tuesday, and the next movie night isn't for a week.

I've found the edge, and I am backing away slowly.

Alula

If you need a good giggle!

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