Stuology

I forgot about it really, but with the approaching StuDay and Christmas and people looking at my Amazon wishlist, I moved all my books to Powells. There are some here and some more right here.

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We Give Books is a site created by the non-profit Pearson Foundation and Penguin Group, a trade book publisher. Authors provide a book royalty free through the website, and for everyone you read online, a book is donated to a cause, of which you have a handful of causes from which to choose*. All the [...]

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solar system puzzle Ada’s last dance lesson was today for this particular class. Next Saturday is her recital. They keep parents out to remove distractions for kids. I’m fine with that. She practices at home. We get to see the entire class perform next Saturday. It will be fun to watch them all. After class, [...]

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Ada asked if we could go to the bookstore after dance this morning. I told her we could go to The Dusty Bookshelf. She went, “Ewwww! How about we go to the clean bookshelf. I don’t want to get dirty!” I found two books in hardback that I’ve had on my wishlist, but I only [...]

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Raining: check Below 60: check October: check Today has meet all of my requirements for the first chili of the season. It will be what I call Cafeteria Chili: ground beef, tomatoes, peppers, beans, onion and chili powder. We could have had leftovers, but Jay got into the taco shells this morning. He ate two, [...]

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I went down to Mass for breakfast, came home, phone call from my mother, went to get Ada, one more stop at home and then we headed back to Mass. We had lunch at Free State. Ada ordered a fruit and cheese plate with a side of carrots. I ordered a salad. Then we went [...]

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Friends of ours had a baby yesterday. Congrats to them! We went to visit over lunch today. That gave me the opportunity to go to Blue Dandelion. I love that place. While there, Mac spotted another pigeon book, so we now have The Pigeon Wants A Puppy. The next one that I think Ada really [...]

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Has anyone read Anathem? Since he completely lost me from Cryptonomicon and on, should I bother? BTW–I yearn for my laptop with more energy than a thousand suns. It’s like someone cut off my arm. Or ate my baby.

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One of the first cookbooks I saw was titled “Seduced By Bacon.” What is it with bacon? Why does bacon keep appearing in my life as of late? It is like my time with the Musak man. I saw one at my eye doctor one time. He was up on the roof what I assume [...]

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